[Study of the annual mortality statistics in a general surgical ward with digestive and vascular orientation at a general hospital center]. / Etude d'une statistique annuelle de mortalité dans un service de chirurgie générale à orientation digestive et vasculaire de centre hospitalier général.

Quality of care has been evaluated in this study by the criterion of mortality in a Digestive and Vascular Surgery unit. The analysis over a one-year period concerned 34 dead patients among 1298 entered and 1,108 operated patients who underwent 1,248 operations. The causes of death have been studied in the 3 groups: non operated (5 patients), digestive (20 patients), vascular (9 patients), with distinction of emergency surgery. Therapeutic habits have been systematically reexamined and considered either adapted or to be modified. Punctual conclusions of such a study are interesting for the medico-surgical team but also for the nursing team. Transparency of mortality for a whole team is a factor of progress by the periodical reappraisal of the therapeutic habits based upon accurate data, and by the better collaboration in the team.

[Injury of the common femoral vein with considerable loss of substance. Repair using an internal jugular autologous vein graft]. / Plaie de la veine fémorale commune avec perte de substance importante. Réparation par greffon veineux autogène jugulaire interne.

A recent wound of femoral vein with pronounced loss of substance was repaired using an autogenous internal jugular vein graft. The value of the use of this type of graft in wounds of large venous trunks with marked loss of substance in a potentially contaminated milieu is emphasized.