Thirty–day perioperative complications overall and by type of surgery
| Outcome | No. (%, 95% CI) of patients | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All surgeries n = 40 004 | Type of major surgery | Low-risk surgery only n = 14 383 | ||||||
| General n = 7950 | Vascular n = 2642 | Neurosurgery n = 2341 | Orthopedic n = 6982 | Thoracic n = 1165 | Urology or gynecology n = 4827 | |||
| Major bleeding | 6238 (15.6, 15.2–16.0) | 1454 (18.3, 17.5–19.2) | 666 (25.2, 23.6–26.9) | 419 (17.9, 16.4–19.5) | 2164 (31.0, 29.9–32.1) | 119 (10.2, 8.6–12.1) | 658 (13.6, 12.7–14.6) | 876 (6.1, 5.7–6.5) |
| MINS | 5191 (13.0, 12.7–13.3) | 980 (12.3, 11.6–13.1) | 633 (24.0, 22.4–25.6) | 301 (12.9, 11.6–14.3) | 1257 (18.0, 17.1–18.9) | 231 (19.8, 17.6–22.2) | 503 (10.4, 9.6–11.3) | 1335 (9.3, 8.8–9.8) |
| Sepsis | 1783 (4.5, 4.3–4.7) | 783 (9.8, 9.2–10.5) | 140 (5.3, 4.5–6.2) | 132 (5.6, 4.8–6.6) | 258 (3.7, 3.3–4.2) | 54 (4.6, 3.6–6.0) | 162 (3.4, 2.9–3.9) | 293 (2.0, 1.8–2.3) |
| Infection without sepsis | 2171 (5.4, 5.2–5.7) | 632 (7.9, 7.4–8.6) | 152 (5.8, 4.9–6.7) | 102 (4.4, 3.6–5.3) | 508 (7.3, 6.7–7.9) | 44 (3.8, 2.8–5.0) | 261 (5.4, 4.8–6.0) | 493 (3.4, 3.1–3.7) |
| Acute kidney injury with dialysis | 118 (0.3, 0.2–0.4) | 49 (0.6, 0.5–0.8) | 25 (0.9, 0.6–1.4) | 4 (0.2, 0.1–0.4) | 14 (0.2, 0.1–0.3) | 3 (0.3, 0.1–0.8) | 7 (0.1, 0.1–0.3) | 17 (0.1, 0.1–0.2) |
| Stroke | 132 (0.3, 0.3–0.4) | 20 (0.3, 0.2–0.4) | 25 (0.9, 0.6–1.4) | 34 (1.5, 1.0–2.0) | 24 (0.3, 0.2–0.5) | 5 (0.4, 0.2–1.0) | 7 (0.1, 0.1–0.3) | 18 (0.1, 0.1–0.2) |
| Venous thromboembolism | 299 (0.7, 0.7–0.8) | 71 (0.9, 0.7–1.1) | 15 (0.6, 0.3–0.9) | 22 (0.9, 0.6–1.4) | 114 (1.6, 1.4–2.0) | 5 (0.4, 0.2–1.0) | 38 (0.8, 0.6–1.1) | 39 (0.3, 0.2–0.4) |
| Congestive heart failure | 372 (0.9, 0.8–1.0) | 113 (1.4, 1.2–1.7) | 46 (1.7, 1.3–2.3) | 5 (0.2, 0.1–0.5) | 120 (1.7, 1.4–2.1) | 12 (1.0, 0.6–1.8) | 30 (0.6, 0.4–0.9) | 53 (0.4, 0.3–0.5) |
| New, clinically important atrial fibrillation | 370 (0.9, 0.8–1.0) | 145 (1.8, 1.6–2.1) | 47 (1.8, 1.3–2.4) | 9 (0.4, 0.2–0.7) | 89 (1.3, 1.0–1.6) | 35 (3.0, 2.2–4.1) | 29 (0.6, 0.4–0.9) | 28 (0.2, 0.1–0.3) |
| Death | 715 (1.8, 1.7–1.9) | 240 (3.0, 2.7–3.4) | 73 (2.8, 2.2–3.5) | 62 (2.6, 2.1–3.4) | 124 (1.8, 1.5–2.1) | 20 (1.7, 1.1–2.6) | 24 (0.5, 0.3–0.7) | 177 (1.2, 1.1–1.4) |
Note: CI = confidence interval, MINS = myocardial injury after noncardiac surgery.