Grade | Definition |
Grade I | Any deviation from the normal postoperative course without the need for pharmacologic treatment or surgical, endoscopic, and radiological interventions. - Allowed therapeutic regimens are drugs as antiemetics, antipyretics, analgetics, diuretics, electrolytes, and physiotherapy.
- This grade also includes wound infections opened at the bedside.
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Grade II | Requiring pharmacologic treatment with drugs other than such allowed for grade I complications. - Blood transfusions and total parenteral nutrition are also included.
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Grade IIIa | Requiring surgical, endoscopic, or radiological intervention not under general anesthesia. |
Grade IIIb | Requiring surgical, endoscopic, or radiological intervention under general anesthesia. |
Grade IVa | Life-threatening complication (including CNS complications)* requiring IC/ICU management, single organ dysfunction (including dialysis). |
Grade IVb | Life-threatening complication (including CNS complications)* requiring IC/ICU management, multiorgan dysfunction. |
Grade V | Death. |