An observational Study on Post Operative Complications in Multi Speciality Hospital

Abstract

Background:Many people have complications postoperatively, some may be transient other may be serious, but all complications are important and need to be managed. The post operative complications are influenced by the type of surgery performed, the past medical history, preexisting comorbidities, social and habitual history, pre operative care. Anesthesia may cause some complications post operatively and related to the type of anesthesia, amount of anesthesia, condition of the patient. Anesthesia management may exert a numerous long-term effect in post operative outcome.
Methods:An observational study on post operative complications in 210 patients, who underwent surgeries on five surgical departments in a multispecialty hospital, Guntur. The observational study was conducted on Ortho surgery, general surgery, neuro surgery, uro surgery and E.N.T, to study the incidence of post operative complications related to their age, gender, social history, their comorbidities and correlation of post operative complications with the type of anesthesia and type of surgery. Data were analyzed by using GraphPad prism 9.3.1 (471).P value <0.005 was considered as statistically significant.
Results: The incidence of post operative complicationsare higher proportion in patientswho underwent orthopedic surgery was 34.92%, followed by general surgery 26.98%, neuro surgery 17.46%, E.N.T 11.11%, uro surgery 6.35% and mortality 3.18%.