Common complications with EDS and surgery include excessive bleeding, wound healing problems, blood vessel tears, and concerns with anesthesia and other medications. More severe subtypes of EDS, including vascular conditions with fragile blood vessels, can be associated with higher rates of complications.  ()  

EDS patients have an increased risk of poor surgical outcomes and complications compared to the general population.  ()

There is also the issue of the number of joints affected. I was not diagnosed until my late 40s, and by then I had recommendations to have surgery on 14 different joints. I would be an invalid recovering for the rest of my life!  And sadly, I once went to a high end clinic that was associated with a university.  I asked about EDS and connective tissue disorders.  I had to choose a joint, so I chose a knee doctor since that was my most recent injury (as we get a different doctor for each joint). I told him all my issues and he wrote, “I don’t think she has a connective tissue disorder. I just think she is prone to injury.”  Never did he check any flexibility of any joint. It wasn’t until my collarbone separated from my sternum several years later that I finally went to the geneticist who gave me an official diagnosis for what I had struggled with my entire life.