Erschienen in:
01.05.2009
Do We Need a Concept of Intraoperative Complication?
verfasst von:
James Wilson, Daniel K. Sokol
Erschienen in:
World Journal of Surgery
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Ausgabe 5/2009
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Excerpt
Cunningham and Kavic [
1] rightly note that standard accounts of surgical complications—ours included—have focused on postoperative events [
2,
3]. As they point out, this postoperative focus leaves open the question of how we should categorize adverse intraoperative events. They argue that we should distinguish between two types of adverse intraoperative events: those that introduce additional risk of postoperative complications and those that do not. On their account, adverse intraoperative events that introduce additional risk of postoperative complications are intraoperative complications, whereas those that do not are simple errors. …