Abstract: Background: Postoperative complications are the main source of morbidity after major abdominal surgery. Few prospective data from Indian public-sector hospitals grade them in a standard way. We graded complications after major abdominal surgery with the Clavien- Dindo classification and identified their predictors. Materials and methods: This was a prospective observational cohort study at a government tertiary care teaching hospital in Gujarat, India. We consecutively enrolled 150 patients older than 16 years who underwent elective.....
Keywords: Clavien-Dindo classification; postoperative complications; abdominal surgery; emergency laparotomy; ASA physical status; surgical audit
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