[Septic shock in suppurative diseases of the face and neck].

A total of 283 patients with odontogenic sepsis, in 66 of these complicated with septic shock, were observed in 1983-1995. A program for rapid assessment of the main clinical laboratory parameters is proposed for differentiating the phases of shock development. Combined use of hemoperfusion and extracorporeal perfusion oxygenation of the blood with preliminary or simultaneous intraarterial infusion of plasma substitutes possessing hemodynamic effects is pathogenetically justified in septic shock.