Mortality rate in strabismus surgery.
Strabismus surgery has been viewed as being associated with a high degree of mortality. Many past studies have used small surgical samples and have stressed the various theoretical causes of the deaths rather than view the procedure from a statistical and scientific standpoint. We present here a large series of surgical cases collected nationwide showing that strabismus surgery is a relatively safe procedure associated with a mortality less than that of a tooth extraction.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001919:Bradycardia / Q000150:complications; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006753:Hospital Records; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007431:Intraoperative Complications; D008297:Male; D008305:Malignant Hyperthermia / Q000150:complications; D008875:Middle Aged; D012024:Reflex, Oculocardiac; D013285:Strabismus / Q000601:surgery*; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative / Q000401:mortality*; D014481:United States