Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Surgical Patients with Intensive Care Unit Lengths of Stay of 90 Days and Greater

Table 2

Postoperative complications of surgical patients.

Number of patients	19
Surgical procedures
Need of reoperation (%)	19 (100%)
Median number of reoperations	11 (1–41)
Type of surgical complications
GI-perforation	11
Anastomotic Leak	10
Surgical site infection	6
GI ischemia	5
Bleeding	4
Infectious complications (%)
Abdominal Sepsis	19 (100)
Pulmonary Sepsis	13 (68)
Kidney failure (%)
Acute renal failure	10 (52,6)
Need of dialysis	7 (36,8)
Respiratory failure
Need for mechanical ventilation (%)	17 (89)
Median time of mechanical ventilation (hours)	835 (16–2594)
Need of tracheostomy (%)	13 (68)

ICU: intensive care unit. GI: gastrointestinal.