Cumulative Official WHO Updates to ICD 10 - 1996 - 2001

Certain postoperative complications (pneumonia (any type), haemorrhage, thrombophlebitis, embolism, thrombosis, septicaemia sepsis, cardiac arrest, renal failure (acute), aspiration, atelectasis and infarction) should be considered direct consequences of an operation, unless surgery was carried out four weeks or more before death. ................
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