“…However, trauma cannot be the only cause of dysfunction; in another study [25], 32% of patients with prolonged hospitalization exhibited gastrointestinal dysfunction after extraabdominal operations (e.g., revision hip arthroplasty). Also of note is that cardiac morbidity, in our study, is not the most relevant type of morbidity, as in other studies, after noncardiac surgery [12][13][14][15]. In our opinion, this could be true because in these studies, the patient population or the surgery performed were specialized.…”