Catastrophic Outcomes in Free Tissue Transfer: A Six-Year Review of the NSQIP Database

Table 2

Catastrophic outcomes.

Postoperative outcome	Total number of patients	% of all patients ()	% of catastrophic outcomes ()
4 outcomes	1	0.0%	0.8%
3 outcomes	3	0.1%	2.5%
2 outcomes	20	0.9%	16.4%
1 outcome	98	4.2%	80.3%
Total	122
Type of outcome
Pulmonary embolism	14	0.6%	9.3%
PRF	93	4.0%	61.6%
Coma	1	0.0%	0.7%
Stroke	4	0.2%	2.6%
Cardiac arrest requiring CPR	6	0.3%	4.0%
Myocardial infarction	12	0.5%	7.9%
Septic shock	13	0.5%	8.6%
Death	8	0.3%	5.3%
Total	151
Overall catastrophic complications	122	5.2%

Patients can have more than one catastrophic complication.
PRF: prolonged respiratory failure; CPR: cardiopulmonary resuscitation.