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Surgery in the Aging Population
Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 1999;125:1405.
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Fortunately, the mortality rates from head and neck cancer surgery are low. In my career of more than 5000 major cases of head and neck surgery, I have had 8 operative deaths, defined as death occurring within the first 30 days from the time of surgery or until the patient leaves the hospital, whichever is later. This low mortality figure is not attributable to my own surgical abilities, but rather to advances in monitoring by anesthesiologists and intensive care unit personnel, as well as outstanding resident and nursing care. Head and neck surgery does not generally result in large fluid shifts and is associated with a relatively low infection rate compared with other types of surgical procedures.
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Dr Bumpous would like us to believe that surgical procedures that are performed on persons who are 80 years of age or older are not associated with higher . . . [Full Text of this Article]
Willard E. Fee, Jr, MD
Division of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery
Stanford University Medical Center
Stanford, CA 94305-5328
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