Clinical study reports high postoperative complication rates linked to hospital cross-infection in pediatric cleft repair, suggesting earlier surgery and shorter stays reduce adverse outcomes.
Although every surgeon attempts to prevent complications during surgery, they may still occur. The high complication rate observed in our study may be due to a small sample size. General complications observed among children are due to cross infection during a hospital stay, contributing immensely to the higher rate of complications in children. Moreover, this may be reduced by short hospital stay following surgery. We also advocate early contact with children with cleft, and early surgical intervention in other to prevent some of the major complications encountered in adult patients.
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