title: [Postoperative mortality rates in a general surgical unit].
abstract: In a 10 years period (1970 to 1979) 25,578 patients were operated upon, 433 patients died postoperatively. The causes of death were analysed according to Petrén and the autopsy results. The most frequent causes of death were cardiac failure, peritonitis, malignant tumours, pneumonia and pulmonary embolism.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality*; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection / Q000401:mortality
vernacular_title: Operationsletalität in der Allgemeinchirurgie.