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Table 3 Adverse events for total hip or total knee arthroplasty only

From: A retrospective cohort study of adverse events in patients undergoing orthopaedic surgery

Adverse Event

Total Hip Arthroplasty, N = 313 # (%)

Total Knee Arthroplasty, N = 252 # (%)

Total

Death

1 (0.6)

1 (0.4)

2

Hospital stay longer than 30 days

0

0

0

Revision within 90 days of procedure

7 (3.9)

21 (8.6%)

28

Wrong site surgery

0

0

0

Long term bleeding

0

1 (0.4)

1

Non-healing of wound

4 (2.2)

12 (4.9)

16

Persistent swelling

2 (1.1)

31 (12.8)

33

Surgical site infection

7 (3.9)

6 (2.5)

13

Sepsis

0

0

0

Draining of wounds

13 (7.3)

4 (1.6)

17

DVT

1 (0.6)

1 (0.4)

2

Prolonged Pain

59 (33.0)

78 (32.1)

137

Nerve Pain

4 (2.2)

2 (0.8)

6

Acute Blood Loss Anemia

7 (3.9)

8 (3.3)

15

Other

75 (41.9)

77 (31.7)

152

Totals

179

243

422