title: The geriatric patient in surgery. Experience with patients over the age of 85 years.
abstract: Between 1982 and 1989 hospitalized treatment was applied to 615 patients aged between 85 and 101 years. The average age was 88.8 years. Operations were performed on 406 of them (66.1%). The surgical lethality amounted 16.5%. The lethality in conjunction with emergency operation was as high as 30.8% or as low as 10.7% in the context of elective operations. X-ray findings recorded from heart and lung as well as ECG provided reliable criteria for assessment of the surgical risk.
authors.affiliation: Surgical Department, German Red Cross Hospital Mark Brandenburg, Berlin.
authors.forename: H D
authors.initials: HD
authors.lastname: Clevert
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kattner
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lindquist
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mohnhaupt
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Ostach
authors.lastname: Schober
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Halstenberg
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Rohleder-Telkamp
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001064:Appendicitis / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery; D001157:Arterial Occlusive Diseases / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D005264:Femoral Fractures / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D005770:Gastrointestinal Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D006547:Hernia / Q000401:mortality; D059685:Herniorrhaphy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male