title: [Mortality and postoperative cause of death in pediatric surgery].
abstract: We analysed our patients in pediatric surgery from 1959 to 1990 in regard to post-operative causes of death according to the Petren scheme. "Post-operative infection" as a cause of death dropped from 45% to 2%, "post-operative pneumonia" from 10% to 4%. Death due to accompanying congenital defects has increased from 3% to 15%. The cause of death "main disease" remained the same with 18%. Post-operative causes of death due to wrong diagnoses ranged at 2%, wrong treatment as cause of death decreased from 18% to 4%. In the 41 years' range of our survey, 115,598 children were operated as in-patients. During the first 5-year-period postoperative mortality was 2.2%, during the last 5-year-period 0.12%.
authors.affiliation: Kinderchirurgische Klinik im Dr. von Haunerschen Kinderspital der Universität München.
authors.forename: W C
authors.initials: WC
authors.lastname: Hecker
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ring-Mrozik
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Limmer
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002423:Cause of Death; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000401:mortality; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany / Q000453:epidemiology; D017052:Hospital Mortality / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000401:mortality*; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection / Q000401:mortality
vernacular_title: Letalität und postoperative Todesursachen in der Kinderchirurgie.