[The judgment on gas gangrene in the framework of liability cases and applications for the extension of compensation].

On the basis of law of the German Demoncratic Republic the problems for the judgement of clostridial infections in medical reports are discussed. If in exogenous infections severe mistakes against fundamental rules of surgery are evident, malpractice must be affirmed. Endogenous infections after operations on the gastrointestinal tract are in mostly all cases induced by bacteria for the viscera. Prophylaxis is not always possible, infections are not avoidable. So in these cases for malpractice there is practically no basis. The conditions for "materian aid" are also not existant.