The most failed surgery is spinal fusion surgery.
Spinal fusion surgery is noted as the most failed surgery due to high and long term failure rates, and back surgeries often also result in significant patient regret.
Emergency general surgeries, including small bowel resection, gallbladder removal and partial colon removal account for 80 percent of emergency surgery deaths.
Although gallbladder surgery is often very safe.
I had my gallbladder removed 10 years ago and it went very well, but some people can have complications.
Surgical procedures like partial colon removal, also known as a colectomy, small bowel resection and even perforated ulcer repair surgeries are also high risk surgeries due to acute, severe patient illnesses that can occur.
Spinal fusion surgery is often cited for failing to relieve the pain and causing long term and debilitating complications for some patients.
And other surgical procedures like knee and hip replacement surgeries, can also fail due ot infection or the implant loosening, which requires revision surgery.
However most knee and hip replacements are often successful.
And plastic surgery and cosmetic surgery also has a high fail rate and high rates of patient regret, especially for breast reconstruction surgery and body contouring surgery.
47 percent of patients that have had breast reconstruction surgery regret the surgery.
And 10 to 33 percent of patients who have had body contouring surgery, regret the body contouring surgery.
When surgery is performed to correct acute problems, like rupture or severe infection, patients are often already sick or very sick and that can lead to high rates of surgical complications.
And surgical procedures that require extreme precision, like neurosurgery or delicate vascular work in heart surgeries also carry higher risks of surgical errors.