Intestinal perforation experience in 80 cases

Eighty patients ranging from 10-60 years were treated for Intestinal perforation. Seventy one [89%] were males. Mortality rate was 15%, and was influenced by duration of illness, duration of perforation, shock, uraemia and faecal peritonitis. Seventy four patients were treated by simple closure of perforation, four required right hemicolectomy and two were in terminal stage and were intubated under local anaesthesia. 56 patients [70%] had post-operative complications