TY  - JOUR
T1  - GAs gangrene in civil life
Y1  - 1939/07/15
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1939.02800280046011
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 234
EP  - 235
VL  - 113
IS  - 3
N2  - The death rate from gas gangrene is still appallingly high. The mortality rate of gas gangrene in civil life has been estimated by Millar1 and by Eliason2 and his co-workers. Millar collected 607 cases occurring in civil life from the beginning of the "post-Lister" period to 1930. The mortality rate in this series was 49.7 per cent, while the mortality from the same infection of the American Expeditionary Forces in France was 48.52 per cent. Eliason and his co-workers collected 349 cases reported from 1930 to 1936. In a group of cases in which gas gangrene developed after amputation for arteriosclerotic or diabetic gangrene the mortality was particularly high, 59 per cent for the entire group and 75 per cent for the diabetic. In a group of cases following surgical procedures other than amputations, the mortality was 41 per cent when serum was used and 76 per cent
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1939.02800280046011
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1939.02800280046011
ER  -