title: [Surgical risk in patients over 70].
abstract: 501 instances of surgery during 1979 in 390 patients aged 70 years or older are reported. The total preoperative mortality rate was 5.4% of operations or 6.9% of patients. Surgery in this patient group was more frequent (1979 11%, 1956/57 8.3%) while the mortality rate had decreased significantly. Urgent operations were frequent (23%), with five times the mortality rate (15%) than for elective operations (2.6%). It is therefore desirable to avoid urgent interventions and operate under elective conditions, though this is not always possible in practice.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000401:mortality; D012306:Risk; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000401:mortality
vernacular_title: Chirurgisches Risiko beim über 70jährigen Patienten.