[Mortality among patients of general surgical profile]

The lethality for 2 years in two general surgical departments is analysed. In total, 7417 patients underwent 4254 operations, including 1181 (27.7%)--elective, 3073 (72.2%)--emergency ones. After elective operations, 12 (1%) patients died, after the emergency operation--189 (6.1%). There were the following causes of lethality after elective operations: different concomitant diseases present before the operation, or developed after it (0.68% of cases); diagnostic, tactical and technical errors (0.32%). Causes of lethality after emergency operations: related to age and irreversible changes in the organism (2.6% of cases); different concomitant diseases (0.8%); late referral to a physician (1.49%); diagnostic, tactical and technical errors (1.3%).