The safety and complications of procedures considerably improved with the automated spring-loaded biopsy device [ 9– 11].
Recently, 10 criteria have been proposed to standardize reporting in the surgical literature of the early complications of procedures [21].
As complications during index hospitalization we considered ICD-9 codes describing pulmonary embolism, specific complications affecting specified body systems such as cardiac, vascular, respiratory, or urinary complications, complications of procedures, and complications of medical care.
Some diagnoses (e.g. myocardial infarction) included in the Charlson index might be due to complications of procedures (e.g. lumbar spine surgery) [ 5].
Hip complications were defined as M24.3, M24.4 (dislocation), M84.0, M84.2, malunion/nonuniononunion), M87.2 (posttraumatic osteonecrosis), M96.6 (periprosthetic fracture), M96.8, M96.9, (other/unspecified postprocedural musculoskeletal disorders), T81 (complications of procedures), T84 (complications of internal orthopedic prosthetic implants), and T93.1 (sequelae of fractures of the femur).
Complication rates of procedures supervised by resident-teachers, compared with those supervised by faculty, should be further evaluated.
Data on complications of procedure were reported in nine studies.
The trigger Complications of procedure or treatment yielded the greatest amount of harm (182 AEs).
a Protocol included pre-specified detection of complications of procedure including either chest radiography or chest ultrasound.
The second episode was for treatment of a common complication of such procedures, an inflammation that develops in and around the stent and blocks it.
