13.01.21 Complications of surgery

Classification

    • 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