In relation to septic abortion some observations concerning epidemiology, conditioning agents, bases and procedures for diagnosis and therapy, and preventive measures are carried out. A study of 57 cases of patients who presented with septic abortion pelviperitonitis and / or septic shock diagnosed and treated in a similar way also presented. It insists on the need to maintain based on the pathophysiology of the infection criteria, advocating that early diagnosis and rapid eradication of the septic focus by surgery are useful in reducing mortality.

Infectious diseases can be described as a clash between pathogens and the body's resistance factors. The antimicrobial appear, such as penicillin, streptomycin, tetracycline, etc., it was thought that this could be the end of the struggle between man pathogens and germs; but problems arose that denied this claim.

There are many definitions of shock, but the simplest and operational is one that defines it as a state of poor vascular perfusion, especially at the peripheral level. In arterial, arteriovenous and venous vessels of a haven blood circulation, leading to tissue anoxia develops, which in turn initiates the metabolic acidotic and coagulation disorders, which ultimately deepen the process and that, not eliminated because they can cause the death of the host.