Understanding The Surgical Complications Of CHD

Surgical complications of CHD are dependent on the severity of the patients conditions and the surgical treatment used. Invasive procedures such as coronary bypass surgery are associated with more complications and risks than non-invasive procedures. Surgical complications are often the result of of a failure in surgical or anaesthetic techniques as patients often experience deterioration to one or more organ or system due to the physiological or inflammatory changes at the site of the surgery (Pearse, Holt, & Grocott, 2011). Surgical complications include death, bleeding, infection, allergic reactions, myocardial infarction, arrhythmias and vascular damage (Fihn et al., 2014) however, many surgical complications develop several days after