TY  - JOUR
T1  - A brief consideration of the pulmonary complications of one thousand laparotomies
AU  - MUNRO JC
Y1  - 1909/08/07
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1909.92550060001001
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 425
EP  - 426
VL  - LIII
IS  - 6
N2  - I wish to report very briefly all of the cases that exhibited any postoperative pulmonary complications in the last thousand consecutive cases of abdominal section (including hernia) under the care of Dr. J. T. Bottomley and myself at the Carney Hospital. I have selected this number because it represents the period of work when our operative and nursing clinic has become better crystallized, because we are almost sure of our aseptic results and because the majority of our operations are performed under a better technical coordination than in the early, formative period of our work. I have read each history so that there should be no omissions.Thirty-nine per cent. (387) of the operations were for appendicitis, 21 per cent. (209) for hernia, 19 per cent. (188) for pelvic lesions, 10 per cent. (106) for diseases of the liver and pancreas, 6 per cent. (57) for lesions of the stomach
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1909.92550060001001
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.92550060001001
ER  -