{"title":"Complications Versus Lawsuits !","authors":"","doi":"10.33140/mcr.05.11.05","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Not every medical claim or lawsuit is necessarily result of a complication or a malpractice. This is especially true in Plastic surgery practice. It was interesting to compare serious surgical complications and mortality risk in various specialties. Gastric bypass surgery, a very popular bariatric procedure designed to treat obesity carries a mortality risk of 0.3% within a month (1:333 cases). Laparoscopic cholecystectomy carries a mortality risk of 0.15% or (1:666) within a month of the surgery as well. Whereas Liposuction as a sole procedure (probably the most common aesthetic operation globally) carries a mortality risk of 1:5000 based on one of the most critical reviews on this issue (Grazer et al. PRS 2000; 105:436-66).","PeriodicalId":9304,"journal":{"name":"British Medical Journal (Clinical research ed.)","volume":"128 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"British Medical Journal (Clinical research ed.)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.33140/mcr.05.11.05","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Not every medical claim or lawsuit is necessarily result of a complication or a malpractice. This is especially true in Plastic surgery practice. It was interesting to compare serious surgical complications and mortality risk in various specialties. Gastric bypass surgery, a very popular bariatric procedure designed to treat obesity carries a mortality risk of 0.3% within a month (1:333 cases). Laparoscopic cholecystectomy carries a mortality risk of 0.15% or (1:666) within a month of the surgery as well. Whereas Liposuction as a sole procedure (probably the most common aesthetic operation globally) carries a mortality risk of 1:5000 based on one of the most critical reviews on this issue (Grazer et al. PRS 2000; 105:436-66).