1.   Discharge Many surgical patients will have anxieties about leaving hospital.

2.   Most surgical patients, regardless of the extent of their operation, are at risk of some degree of problem with breathing.

3.   Problems of fluid balance can occur rapidly in surgical patients.

4.   Shock occurs to varying degrees in all surgical patients, due to alterations in the normal control mechanisms of the body.

5.   Wound tissue oxygen tension predicts the risk of wound infection in surgical patients.

6.   There are plenty of surgical patients walking around with only one lung, and some of them are down to a third of normal lung area.

7.   Although the vast majority of older surgical patients escape such side effects, those who have them number in the millions each year.

8.   And the surgical patients did not have the spikes seen before and after meals in the other people.

9.   At the same time, doctors suspect that some high-risk surgical patients are pressured to go out of state.

10.   A small but significant percentage of surgical patients, even those with healthy hearts, suffer strokes or die as a complication of the surgery.