coordinate with specific postoperative complication (if not treed under POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS) and specific surgical procedure if pertinent; effective 2017: for postoperative complications that are a direct result of the surgical procedure, coordinate with specific postoperative complication(if not treed under POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS) and specific surgical procedure /adv eff
Scope Note
Pathologic processes that affect patients after a surgical procedure. They may or may not be related to the disease for which the surgery was done, and they may or may not be direct results of the surgery.
Pathologic processes that affect patients after a surgical procedure. They may or may not be related to the disease for which the surgery was done, and they may or may not be direct results of the surgery.
