after colic surgery in 434 horses

Surgical treatment of a patient with colic does not end with surgery and recovery from anaesthesia. There are numerous factors that negatively affect recovery, increase the treatment expenses and ag-gravate the prognosis. The probability of occur-rence of post-surgical complications is related to the seriousness of alteration of the general health condition of horses, colic cause, lesion location and the scope of surgery (Freeman et al., 2000; van den Boom and van der Velden, 2001; Mair and Smith, 2005a,b, and others). Problems that appear in the post-surgical period become more important due t