Post operative complications

 POST OPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS

Immediate

  • Maternal death due to shock, secondary to exhaustion, toxaemia, haemorrhage and excessive manipulation of abdominal viscera or sudden release of intra abdominal pressure as in hydrops.
  • Retained fetal membranes

After few days

  • Metritis
  • Wound break down
  • Suture abscess
  • Serous fluid accumulation at the incision site
  • Subcutaneous emphysema
  • Peritonitis and death

Later stages

  • Hernia
  • Uterine adhesions
  • Infertility
Last modified: Saturday, 12 November 2011, 11:00 AM