Fig. 1: Incidence and mortality of perioperative organ injury.
From: Impact of perioperative organ injury on morbidity and mortality in 28 million surgical patients
Perioperative organ injuries included delirium, stroke, acute myocardial infarction (AMI), acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), pulmonary embolism (PE), liver injury (LI), and acute kidney injury (AKI). Each organ injury is separated into its impact as an individual organ (left panel side) or as concomitant with additional other organ injuries (right panel side). For example, AKI has a mortality rate of 20.3% when it occurs as an isolated organ injury (left panel side). However, if it happens in conjunction with another organ injury, AKI-associated mortality increases to 37.7% (right panel side). Note: among all the organ injuries investigated, AKI was the most common, while Acute Liver Injury was associated with the highest mortality.
