Complications
Veins And arteries
100

This postoperative complication is the decrease of normal Peristalsis Following surgery. Opiated Worsen it.

Ileus

100
Along with pain, pallor, and pulselessness, this is one of the 6 p's of acute limb ischemia (Name One)

Poikilothermia or paralysis or paresthesias

200

This postoperative complication is the most likely cause of fever within the first 48 hours after surgery

Atelectasis

200

An AAA that grows by this much per year should be surgically repaired

0.5cm

300

This is a fluid collection in a wound other than blood or pus. It can delay healing and cause pain

Seroma

300

Depicted here, this percutaneous procedure can be diagnostic and therapeutic 

Angiogram

400

This triad of hypercoagulable state, stasis, and vessel damage puts postop patients at increased risk of VTE.

Virchow's 

400

This condition mostly affects women and included compression of left common iliac vein by right common iliac artery, increasing risk of DVT. treated with stenting

May-thurner syndrome

500

A complication Caused by a prophylactic medication, this condition causes an initial thrombotic state followed by low platelets 

Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia 

500
In this type of phlegmasia, iliofemoral occlusion extends into deep veins but collateral flow is preserved. on exam, the leg is pale and cool. Urgent (not emergent) surgical condition

Alba Dolens

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