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Postoperative Complications

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Discuss common serious complications of operations for complex disease.

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  1. Jane and Donald D. Trunkey Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Surgery, University of Washington Surgeon-in-Chief, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA, 98104, USA

    Ronald V. Maier MD, FACS

  2. Department of Surgical Research, Clinical Division for General Surgery, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

    Abe Fingerhut Doc hon c,FACS,FRCS(g),FRCS(Ed)

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Surgical Research Department, Clinical Division for General Surgery, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

    Abe Fingerhut

  2. Department of Abdominal Surgery, University of Helsinki Meilahti Hospital, Helsinki, Finland

    Ari Leppäniemi

  3. Department of Surgery, University of California San Diego Health Sciences, San Diego, California, USA

    Raul Coimbra

  4. Division of General Surgery, University of Pittsburgh UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

    Andrew B. Peitzman

  5. R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

    Thomas M. Scalea

  6. Emergency Surgery Unit, University Hospitals of Lyon Centre Hospitalier Lyon-Sud, Pierre-Bénite, France

    Eric J. Voiglio

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Maier, R.V., Fingerhut, A. (2016). Postoperative Complications. In: Fingerhut, A., Leppäniemi, A., Coimbra, R., Peitzman, A., Scalea, T., Voiglio, E. (eds) Emergency Surgery Course (ESC®) Manual. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21338-5_5

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