Main postoperative complications: narrative review

Abstract

Objective: Addressing through a narrative review about the main postoperative surgical complications. Bibliography review: After performing a surgical procedure to manage a certain pathology, another disease may appear. Even with the correct technique, every surgery has a risk, no matter how small, no surgical procedure is without complications. The occurrence of post-surgical complications represents an important change in the patient's recovery, increasing the chances of this recovery, the length of hospital stay, the reduction in the provision of beds, increased costs and increased morbidity and mortality. complications are cardiovascular, urinary, respiratory, digestive and hepatobiliary. Surgical complications can be classified according to the period in which they manifest themselves as immediate (within the first 24 hours), mediate (until the 7th day) or late (after definitive hospital discharge) and also general, special or specific. Final considerations: Every patient undergoing a surgical procedure is susceptible to a postoperative complication. Therefore, it is necessary to know and identify such complications in order to institute treatment early in order to reduce as much as possible the morbidity and mortality related to the procedure.