From: A retrospective cohort study of adverse events in patients undergoing orthopaedic surgery
Procedure Type | Number of Procedures | Percent of all Study Procedures | Total Number of Adverse Events | Percent of all Adverse Events | Mean Number of Events per Procedure |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Total hip arthroplasty | 313 | 20.17 | 179 | 15.59 | 0.57 |
Total knee arthroplasty | 252 | 16.24 | 243 | 21.17 | 0.96 |
Lumbar arthrodesis posterior - single | 132 | 8.51 | 186 | 16.20 | 1.41 |
Removal of deep implant | 132 | 8.51 | 79 | 6.88 | 0.60 |
Open treatment of femur fracture & interlocking nail | 65 | 4.19 | 78 | 6.79 | 1.20 |
Arthroscopy of the knee and partial menisectomy | 64 | 4.12 | 18 | 1.57 | 0.28 |
Debridement: skin, tissue, muscle, bone | 60 | 3.87 | 71 | 6.18 | 1.18 |
Anterior cruciate ligament repair with arthroscopy and autograft | 53 | 3.41 | 11 | 0.96 | 0.21 |
Open treatment femoral fracture proximal end/neck with fixation | 53 | 3.41 | 43 | 3.75 | 0.81 |
Neurolysis median nerve at carpal T | 38 | 2.45 | 12 | 1.05 | 0.32 |
Application of external fixation system, unilateral; uniplanar | 31 | 2.00 | 46 | 4.01 | 1.48 |
Slipped capital femoral epiphysis with femoral neck osteoplasty | 31 | 2.00 | 14 | 1.22 | 0.45 |
Arthroscopy of shoulder, surgical; with rotator cuff repair | 32 | 2.06 | 12 | 1.05 | 0.38 |
Open treatment and fixation of the clavicle | 29 | 1.87 | 14 | 1.22 | 0.48 |
Gastronemius recession | 29 | 1.87 | 26 | 2.26 | 0.90 |
Excisional bone biopsy - deep | 25 | 1.61 | 12 | 1.05 | 0.48 |
Arthroscopy of the shoulder, surgical; capsulor repair | 24 | 1.55 | 6 | 0.52 | 0.25 |
Arthroscopy of the shoulder with acromioplasty | 22 | 1.42 | 8 | 0.70 | 0.36 |
Arthroscopy, debridge, drill, resect | 17 | 1.10 | 7 | 0.61 | 0.41 |
Removal of exterior fixator system | 16 | 1.04 | 12 | 1.05 | 0.75 |
Open toe flexor tenotomy, single | 15 | 0.97 | 8 | 0.70 | 0.53 |
Other study procedures | 130 | 8.38 | 82 | 0.07 | 0.78 |
Total study procedures | 1552 | 100 | 1148 | 100 | 0.73 |