When a surgery is complex, for example when the patient is younger than 6 months, the anesthetist must be present during the complete surgery which includes the surgical procedure.
Patient management issues are complex for HIV disease (Table 2).
For healthcare professionals, the treatment is complex: individualised for each patient based on drug resistance patterns, and expensive, with drugs alone costing up to $6,000 £3,96262) per person for a treatment course.
Decision-making is more complex for patients who are vulnerable and have concomitant mild functional or cognitive issues, well-controlled and non-life threatening comorbid conditions, and/or depression.
Oncology care is complex and for any given patient, treatment strategies may require making difficult trade-offs between the potential benefits and side effects or complications associated with both therapeutic and supportive care agents.
The decision to implant an ICD in older adults is complex, particularly for primary prevention in patients who are at risk for sudden cardiac arrest because of systolic dysfunction but have never experienced a ventricular arrhythmia.
The BT-PABA test is the standard pancreatic exocrine function examination in Japan, but it is affected by various factors, such as liver and renal dysfunction, and is somewhat complex for patients to understand.
Finally clinical decision making can be complex in patients for whom the focus of treatment is palliative, but who are not imminently dying [ 20] since best care will focus on control of symptoms and maintaining quality of life rather than treating a clinical condition at all costs.
22 While reasons for this are complex, many patients with lung cancer are ineligible for radical treatment at presentation due to poor PS or comorbidity, while others fail to receive their intended treatment plan because of functional decline.
