Classification
- Complications of anaesthesia
- Complications of surgery
- Surgery in general
- This specific operation
- Time-frame
Immediate complications
- Circulation
- Primary haemorrhage
- Reactive haemorrhage, following post-op increase in BP
- Shock
- Breathing
- Organs
- Failure to recover consciousness
- Low urine output
Early complications
- Cuts
- Wound or anastamotic dehiscence
- Infection
- Wound infection
- Pyrexia
- Pneumonia
- UTI
- Blood
- DVT
- Secondary haemorrhage (due to infection?)
- Organs
- Ileus
- Urine retention
- Bowel obstruction due to adhesions
- Nausea + vomiting
- Confusion
Late complications
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Bowel obstruction due to fibrous adhesions
- Incisional hernias
- Persistent sinus
- Recurrence
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