Perioperative Blood Loss

Bleeding after surgery may happen at any time. You may bleed right away after surgery or a few days later. The bleeding may come from your incision or may happen inside of your body.

Name

Bleeding After Surgery

About this topic

Bleeding after surgery may happen at any time. You may bleed right away after surgery or a few days later. The bleeding may come from your incision or may happen inside of your body.

What drugs may be needed?

Help with pain,Fight or prevent an infection,Help make the blood clot,Sometimes, the doctor may want to give you blood to replace what you have lost. You may also need other blood products to help stop the bleeding or IV fluids to replace the fluids you have lost.

Body systems

General Surgery,Hematologic

What are other common names?

Incision Bleeding,Post Op Bleeding,Post Op Hemorrhage,Post Operative Bleeding,Post Operative Hemorrhage,Post Surgical Bleeding,Post-op Bleeding,Post-op Hemorrhage,Post-operative Bleeding,Post-operative Hemorrhage,Postoperative Bleeding,Postoperative Bleeding after Surgery,Postoperative Hemorrhage,Stitches Bleeding,Surgery,Surgical Bleeding,Surgical Incision Bleeding,Wound Bleeding

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