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LESTER W. MARTIN, M.D.; C. THOMAS FULTZ, M.D.

AMA Arch Surg. 1959;78(6):904-907.

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Present-day surgery has been perfected to a point where the mortality rate for most of the standard operations is practically nil, provided the patient is an adult in reasonably satisfactory physical condition. On the other hand, when the same type of operation is performed on newborn infants, the mortality figures frequently approach 50%. The infant differs from the adult in many ways: His physiology is different; his immunologic response is different; his disease is different; he frequently has other associated anomalies; he is smaller in size, and his nursing care must be much more constant and exacting. By reviewing the autopsy material and case histories and combining such information with the facts cited above, we are constantly modifying our surgical approach, to decrease further the operative mortality rate for this particular group of patients.

Vomiting, with aspiration of gastric contents, is well known to be one of the major immediate . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Cincinnati

From the Surgical Service of Children's Hospital, and the Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.

Footnotes
Read at the 66th Annual Meeting of the Western Surgical Association, Rochester, Minn., Nov. 22, 1958.

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