• Complications of anaesthesia
• Complications of surgery
• Surgery in general
• This specific operation
• Time-frame
• Immediate
• Early
• Late

Immediate complications

• Circulation
• Primary haemorrhage
• Reactive haemorrhage, following post-op increase in BP
• Shock
• Breathing
• Basal atelectasis
• PE
  
• 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

• Bowel obstruction due to fibrous adhesions
• Incisional hernias
  
• Persistent sinus
  
• Recurrence