[Diagnostic standards in geriatric surgery (author's transl)].

The diagnosis in the field of surgery of the old age is to be standarized if you suppose that not all illnesses or consequences of accidents are the real problem, but the old age which is accompanied by multi-illnesses. So it must be examined in how far it is possible to realise the great existing risk. Besides most of the operations of the old age belong to the urgent surgery and care connected with a great risk. A standardized diagnosis must think of the individual factors and must recognize--because of the little time--the most important signs of the heart circulation-, the lung-and the kidney-function. This must be united with the results of the diagnosis of the organes to a pre- and postoperative therapeutic programme.