ABSTRACT
The authors report on a retrospective study about 1000 cases of patients hospitalized in a department of adult visceral surgery in order to evaluate the importance of the systematic preoperative complete physical examination and laboratory testing. The blood grouping has been realized for all the patients where as only 37 patients have been transfused. The rate of prothrombine [TP] is abnormal in 2 cases [0,2%]. The creatinine and the blood urea have been abnormal, respectively in 9,25% and 8,9% of the cases, but without any influence on the decision of the intervention. The fasting blood glucose showed 0,2% of asymptomatic diabetus. The thoracic radiography has been abnormal in 17,3% of the cases, but it has differed the intervention only in 0,7% of the cases. The electrocardiogram influenced the decision to operate only in 1,16% of the cases. We conclude from this study that we must abandon the pre-operative systematic complete physical examination. The interogatory and the clinic examination realized during a per-anesthesic consultation permit a judicious joice of complementary examinations