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Table 3 Classification of postoperative complications

From: An individualised versus a conventional pneumoperitoneum pressure strategy during colorectal laparoscopic surgery: rationale and study protocol for a multicentre randomised clinical study

1. Acute kidney damage

2. Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)

3. Suture dehiscence

4. Arrhythmia

5. Cardiac arrest

6. Cardiogenic pulmonary edema

7. Deep vein thrombosis

8. Postoperative delirium

9. Gastrointestinal bleeding

10. Infection

11. Bacteraemia

12. Myocardial infarction

13. Myocardial injury after non-cardiac surgery

14. Pneumonia

15. Paralytic ileus

16. Postoperative haemorrhage

17. Pulmonary embolism

18. Cerebrovascular accident

19. Infection of surgical wound (superficial)

20. Infection of surgical wound (deep)

21. Infection of surgical (organ) wound

22. Urinary tract infection

Postoperative pulmonary complications:

1. Respiratory infection

2. Respiratory failure

3. Pleural effusion

4. Atelectasis

5. Pneumothorax

6. Bronchospasm

7. Pneumonia due to aspiration