In the Aftermath and the M & M Meeting

Abstract

Let us hope that your patient survives his emergency abdominal operation and his postoperative course is uneventful. Unfortunately, the overall mortality of such procedures is still far from negligible and the morbidly rate is generally high. Now, after the storm has waned, it is the time to sit down and reflect on what went wrong.

“Big” operation in “fit” patients may be “small” “Small” operation in sick patients may be “big” A “big” surgeon knows to tailor the operation and its trauma to the patient and his disease

Again and again I find that there are few things so quickly forgotten by the surgical system as a dead patient

(PO Nystrom)