Medscape - April 27, 2016 - By Troy Brown
"Seven types of emergency general surgeries (EGSs) account for the vast majority of all EGSs (80.0%), deaths (80.3%), complications (78.9%), and inpatient costs (80.2%), according to a retrospective review of 421,476 procedures performed in the United States.
The surgical procedures include partial colectomy, small bowel resection, cholecystectomy, operative management of peptic ulcer disease, lysis of peritoneal adhesions, appendectomy, and laparotomy...
Complications included pneumonia, deep vein thrombosis and/or pulmonary embolism, acute renal injury, stroke, myocardial infarction, cardiac arrest, acute respiratory distress syndrome, sepsis, septic shock, mechanical wound failure, wound infection, postoperative gastrointestinal tract complications, and other postoperative complications including retained foreign body and postoperative hemorrhage..."