Good day. Welcome to this session on "When Implants Go BAD!"
We're not here to scare you but,
yes, we are here to scare you!
Things can go bad if you do it for long
enough and you do it enough times.
This is a very big topic, so today,
we're really going to be only concentrating on some
of the more common surgical complications.
Now, what is a complication?
Well, it's defined as an unanticipated problem
that arises following, and is a result of,
a procedure, a treatment, or illness.
Well, if you look at surgical complications,
I guess, probably the worst thing is
the patient can actually die from it,
from what you do, and, believe me,
that has actually happened a number of times
around the world, but we won't go into that
because they are certainly fairly rare
occurrences, so we're not going to cover that today.
Then, of course, the next most distressful
situation for surgeons, as well as, patients
alike, is, generally, haemorrhage.
I mean, to a patient, bleeding is something
that is very, very distressing,
and something that we should know about.