Diseases

Intraoperative Complications

Complications that affect patients during surgery. They may or may not be associated with the disease for which the surgery is done, or within the same surgical procedure.

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Abstract

Complications that affect patients during surgery. They may or may not be associated with the disease for which the surgery is done, or within the same surgical procedure.

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Synonyms

11 entry terms
  • Complication, Intraoperative
  • Complication, Peroperative
  • Peroperative Complications
  • Complications, Intraoperative
  • Complications, Peroperative
  • Intraoperative Complication
  • Peroperative Complication
  • Injuries, Surgical
  • Surgical Injuries
  • Injury, Surgical
  • Surgical Injury

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29 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, enzymology, epidemiology, etiology, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.

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Indexing Annotation

few qualif apply; IM; coord with Cat E4 term (IM) if pertinent with or without /adv eff depending on its relation to the intraop compl: for policy apply principles of POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS, Manual 23.18+; for iatrogenic compl (as entry term SURGICAL INJURIES) or other: TN 179

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Tree Number

  1. C23.550.505

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Intraoperative Complications. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D007431. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D007431
  2. Intraoperative Complications. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q54920384