[Evaluation of operative mortality among patients aged over 80 between 1970 and 1980].
The second surgical department of the Postgraduate Medical School conducted a 10-year analysis covering patients aged over 80. The results suggest that elective surgery is advisable even at this advanced age. A sound pre-operative diagnosis can help ensure that aged patients undergo an operation at the earliest possible date, the death rate from surgery carried out in a late acute stage being much higher. The authors take issue with the view -- still regarded as a dogma in the surgical world -- that the operation should be "minimal". They note that good results in "geriatric" surgery depend on good management and adequate pre-operative and post-operative observation.
D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D006814:Hungary; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative / Q000401:mortality*
Auswertung zur Operationsmortalität bei über 80jährigen Patienten von 1970-1980.