Table 2.

Adverse Intraoperative Events by Surgical Approach

	Total (n = 5,882)		LAGB (n = 1,608)		LRYGB (n = 3,770)		ORYGB (n = 504)
Characteristic	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%
Adverse intraoperative event (any)	294	5.0	48	3.0	209	5.5	37	7.3
Major adverse intraoperative events*
Anesthesia events	51	0.9	17	1.1	32	0.8	2	0.4
Revision anastomosis†	37	0.6	0	0.0	27	0.7	10	2.0
Instrument/equipment failure	47	0.8	9	0.6	35	0.9	3	0.6
Liver injury	24	0.4	7	0.4	16	0.4	1	0.2
Spleen injury	13	0.2	2	0.1	8	0.2	3	0.6
Blood vessel injury	4	0.1	1	0.1	2	0.1	1	0.2
Bowel injury	52	0.9	1	0.1	46	1.2	5	1.0

^*Only major events that are collected in both Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery 1 and Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery 2 are presented. For details, see Supplementary Tables 1 and 2, available online only.

^†Data for this item missing for 49 of 5,882 cases.