Was CEPOD right?
Open Access
- 1 November 1990
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Anaesthesia
- Vol. 45 (11) , 978-980
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2044.1990.tb14637.x
Abstract
Summary: This retrospective study found that the long‐term (greater than 6 months) postoperative survival in ASA 4E and 5E patients was 41% and 21% respectively, in 1986. This supports the Confidential Enquiry into Peri‐operative Deaths’ recommendation that life‐saving surgery should not be withheld from patients who present in so serious a condition that they are unlikely to survive surgery.Keywords
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