TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Postoperative Complications A1 - Yeomans, Edward R. A1 - Hoffman, Barbara L. A1 - Gilstrap III, Larry C. A1 - Cunningham, F. Gary Y1 - 2017 N1 - T2 - Cunningham and Gilstrap's Operative Obstetrics, 3e AB - According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Hospital Discharge Summary, nearly 1.3 million cesarean deliveries were performed in 2013 (Martin, 2015). This stands as the most common abdominal surgery in the United States and by far the most frequently performed surgery in obstetrics. Cesarean delivery is discussed in detail in Chapter 25 (p. 403), and postoperative complications following this procedure contribute substantively to pregnancy-related morbidity and mortality rates. In their sobering analysis of data from the Pregnancy Mortality Surveillance System, for example, Creanga and colleagues (2015) found that infection, venous thromboembolism, and hemorrhage contributed 13.6 percent, 9.6 percent, and 11.4 percent, respectively, to all pregnancy-related deaths from 2006 to 2010. The contribution from infection actually represented a significant increase compared with previously reported epochs. The importance of recognizing and appropriately managing such postoperative complications is highlighted by the fact that subsets of the resultant deaths are unquestionably preventable. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - obgyn.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1138216069 ER -