TY - JOUR AU - Iqbal, M I AU - Rafiq, K AU - Ahmed, M AU - Mohammad, Y AU - Rafi, Y AU - Aktar, S AU - Chaudhry, A M PY - 2017/09/07 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Frequency and Cause of Sudden Death in Surgical Practice JF - Annals of King Edward Medical University JA - Annals KEMU VL - 8 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - 10.21649/akemu.v8i2.1660 UR - https://annalskemu.org/journal/index.php/annals/article/view/1660 SP - AB - <p>A cross sectional observational study was carried out in the Department of General Surgery Mayo Hospital, Lahore during 1999-2001. Main objective of the study was to identify the frequency &amp; causes of sudden death in the surgical practice &amp; to classify patients who are likely candidates for this fatal outcome. A total of 5189 patients were admitted in the ward during this time. Among them 78.1% were admitted from emergency and 26.98% from the out patients department with age ranges between 15-&gt;65 and male to female ratio of 51.3%: 38.63%. a total of 3870patients, who fulfill the criteria were included in the study. Among them 125 mortalities occurred in two years time &amp; &nbsp;only 22 cases were labeled as sudden deaths, out of them 19 were admitted through emergency and only 3 were from the outpatient department. In the study sudden death was labeled as any; occurring within 24hr of in surgical patients who are stable pre of postoperatively on the basis of haemodynamics, clinical evaluation &amp; biochemical investigation with or without the probable cause of death suggested by the medical history. The frequency of sudden death among total admission (3870) was 0.56% and among total mortalities was 17.64%. expected causes in the labeled sudden death cases were Myocardial infarction (27.27%), Pulmonary embolism (18.8%), Multi system organ failure (18.8%), adult respiratory distress syndrome (9.09%), Aspiration pneumonitis (9.09%), Cardiac arrhythmias due to acute renal failure (4.54%), Ruptured pseudo aneurysm (4.54%), Acute drug reaction (4.54%) and Halothane toxicity (4.54%).</p> ER -