Aim: To determine the hospital frequency, identify the risks factors and evaluate the mortality of the early postoperative complication.
Patients and methods: It was about a prospective study done from January first to May 31st 2006. All children from 0 to 15 years old operated in settled or urgent surgery and follow in the service were concerned of this study.
Result: We brought together 47 cases of complication in 40 patients on a total of 631 children operated in five months. The average age of our patients was of 51.9 months +/- 47.4. The average period of hospital stay was of 4.3 days +/-3.12. A germ was found in the pus in 13 patients. A lung opaqueness was found in three patient's and a germ was present in the urine in 3 also. The average period of appearance of complications was of 7.7 days +/-1.3. The infection of the operating site occupied 2.5%, evisceration 1.1%, haematoma 0.9%, digestive fistula 0.3% and postoperative occlusion 0.15%. The death rate was 1.9%.
Conclusion: The type of surgery, the mode of recruitment, the duration and conditions of the hospital stay were the factors of the postoperative complications.