Table 5.
Severity grades of the most frequently occurring complications
| TRACS | Description | Complications; no. (%)* | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I | IIa | IIb | III | IV | Total, n = 3026 | ||
| 5509 | Wound infection | 197 (50) | 85 (22) | 111 (28) | 1 (0.3) | 1 (0.3) | 395 (13.1) |
| 8508 | Postoperative hemorrhage | 55 (24) | 5 (2) | 165 (72) | 0 | 5 (2) | 230 (7.6) |
| 3008 | Pneumonia | 5 (3) | 155 (90) | 8 (5) | 0 | 5 (3) | 173 (5.7) |
| 5507 | Septicemia | 5 (4) | 78 (69) | 18 (16) | 1 (0.9) | 11 (10) | 113 (3.7) |
| 6003 | Urinary tract infection | 3 (3) | 104 (96) | 1 (1) | 0 | 0 | 108 (3.6) |
| 4003 | Abdominal wall dehiscence/evisceration | 11 (11) | 2 (2) | 51 (51) | 35 (35) | 1 (1) | 100 (3.3) |
| 5503 | Intra-abdominal abscess | 4 (4) | 3 (3) | 82 (91) | 0 | 1 (1) | 90 (3.0) |
| 3501 | Cardiac arrhythmia | 11 (18) | 47 (77) | 3 (5) | 0 | 0 | 61 (2.0) |
| 7507 | Arterial thrombosis | 5 (8) | 6 (10) | 40 (67) | 6 (10) | 3 (5) | 60 (2.0) |
| 3505 | Myocardial infarction | 1 (2) | 26 (44) | 0 | 25 (42) | 7 (12) | 59 (1.9) |
| 4001 | Bowel anastomotic leak | 3 (6) | 1 (2) | 43 (84) | 2 (4) | 2 (4) | 51 (1.7) |
| 8502 | Drug related | 19 (39) | 28 (57) | 1 (2) | 0 | 1 (2) | 49 (1.6) |
| 3015 | Respiratory failure | 1 (3) | 3 (8) | 34 (85) | 0 | 2 (5) | 40 (1.3) |
| 3504 | Congestive heart failure | 28 (78) | 3 (8) | 5 (14) | 0 | 36 (1.2) | |
| 5504 | Line infection | 7 (20) | 24 (69) | 3 (9) | 0 | 1 (3) | 35 (1.2) |
| 6506 | Loss of reduction/fixation | 0 | 0 | 29 (85) | 5 (15) | 0 | 34 (1.1) |
| 3009 | Pneumothorax | 2 (9) | 0 | 20 (91) | 0 | 0 | 22 (0.7) |
| 6509 | Orthopedic wound infection | 1 (5) | 7 (35) | 10 (50) | 1 (5) | 1 (5) | 20 (0.7) |
| 4008 | Ileus | 1 (5) | 5 (26) | 13 (68) | 0 | 0 | 19 (0.6) |
| 7011 | Stroke/cerebrovascular accident | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 (72) | 5 (28) | 18 (0.6) |
| 3014 | Pulmonary embolus | 0 | 9 (53) | 3 (18) | 0 | 5 (29) | 17 (0.6) |
TRACS = Trauma Registry of the American College of Surgeons.
*
Complications graded according to Clavien and colleagues.10 The percentages reported with each severity grade represent the proportion of the total number for this complication.