title: [Mortality in emergency abdominal surgery. 304 cases. A plea for better clinical practice].
abstract: Survey of 304 cases of surgical, abdominal emergencies (peritonitis and bowel occlusions). We deplored 42 post-operative deaths (14%). When patients are operated within 12 hours after the beginning of the pain, out of a group of 56 patients, two died (4%). After the 48th hour, of 114 patients operated, 26 died (23%) despite a stay in an intensive care unit. 174 patients, under 60 years old, we operated; 4 died (2.3%). This is mainly due to a stay in an intensive care unit (50 were operated after the 48th hour). Out of a group of 60 eighty years old patients, 18 were operated before the 24th hour; one death, that of a 94 years old patient, was deplored. Out of the 42 patients operated after the 24th hour, 19 died (45%). On the 304 patients, 56 (18%) were operated before the 12th hour, and 18 only, before the 6th hour (6%). the delay in operating, does not increases mortality only, but increase the duration of hospitalisation; this in itself increase expenses and sufferings. The causes of these delays are analyzed. A wiser use of clinical examination would decrease them.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Monod-Broca
mesh_terms: D000006:Abdomen, Acute / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000191:economics / Q000601:surgery*; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D004630:Emergencies; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D007813:Laparotomy / Q000401:mortality*; D007902:Length of Stay / Q000191:economics; D008875:Middle Aged; D013997:Time Factors
vernacular_title: Mortalité en chirurgie abdominale d'urgence. A propos de 304 observations. Plaidoyer pour la clinique.