Here are five insights on spinal fusions:
1. Around 3.3 percent of patients who underwent spinal fusion experienced a surgical complication during the hospitalization.
2. Wound complications such as post-operative infection, accumulation of fluid and accidental punctures or tears of the membrane covering the spinal cord were the top reason for in-hospital complications.
3. Nearly 2.3 percent of patients who underwent spinal fusion were readmitted to an acute-care hospital for a surgical complication within 30 days or 90 days of discharge.
4. Around 5.4 percent were readmitted to an acute-care hospital for an unplanned reason within 30 days of discharge.
5. Surgical complications were the most common reason for unplanned readmissions, followed by heart-related reasons, bloodstream infections and blood clot in the lung.
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