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MORALES GONZALEZ, Raúl A. Mortalidad posoperatoria intrahospitalaria de los adultos mayores en Cirugía General. Rev Cubana Cir [online]. 2003, vol.42, n.4, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-2945.

It was made a retrospective analytical research that included all the elderly patients that had died intrahospitally in the postoperative period and that had undergone major programmed or emergency surgery with general or regional anesthesia at the General Surgery Service of "Celia Sánchez Manduley" Provincial Clinical and Surgical Teaching Hosptital, in Manzanillo, during 2001. Although age increase was statistically significant, it was not determinant in the appearance of mortality, which grew as the physical state degree raised. The emergency operations and the malignant diseases were associated with a rise in the number of deaths. The sum of both predictors elevated the death risk 76.50 times. Most of the patients died in the first 72 hours of the postoperative and sepsis was the most common direct cause of death

Palavras-chave : AGED; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS [mortality]; SEPSIS.