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Thirteenth Annual Meeting, May 27, 1930

THOMAS E. CARMODY, President, in the Chair, M.D.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1930;12(6):838-854.

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PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. DR. THOMAS E. CARMODY, Denver.

Dr. Carmody reported his analysis of a questionnaire sent to all members, to a selected list of (other) laryngologists and to hospitals to ascertain the relation of mortality to the number of endoscopies in the hands of competent bronchoscopists, that is, both the operator who sees several cases each week or month and the one who sees one only occasionally. One noteworthy fact was that many apparently failed to remember the number of deaths. Many frankly gave the number of deaths in a large precentage of cases and mentioned mistakes. There were eighty deaths due to foreign bodies, which is about 1.17 per cent. Twenty-two deaths, or about 0.2 per cent, were reported after therapeutic and diagnostic bronchoscopies. The causes of death were given as pneumonia, abscess of the lung, pulmonary hemorrhage and diphtheria, although subglottic edema and pulmonary edema . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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