Select basic ads. Create a personalised ads profile. Select personalised ads. Apply market research to generate audience insights. Measure content performance. Develop and improve products. List of Partners vendors. When medical or surgical treatment causes a new illness or injury, the result is considered to be iatrogenic. If you or your child are going for medical care, one of your worst fears may be that something could go wrong as a result of the treatment.
An iatrogenic event can either complicate your existing medical condition or cause health issues unrelated to the illness you sought treatment for in the first place. These types of situations are rarely intentional, though medical providers are human and mistakes can be made. While you can't eliminate the risk of an iatrogenic event, there are things you can do to reduce your risk. Iatrogenic events can be caused by any number of medical oversights or mistakes.
They may occur during a hospital stay or a routine healthcare provider's visit, and there is no single cause, medical condition, or circumstance linked to these occurrences. Iatrogenic events may lead to physical, mental, or emotional problems or, in some cases, even death. Test your knowledge. Older drivers with significant functional deficits who wish to continue driving need to be evaluated to determine if the deficits are correctable.
Which of the following is the most appropriate individual to perform this evaluation? More Content. Click here for Patient Education. Interventions that can prevent iatrogenic complications include the following. Was This Page Helpful? Yes No. Prevention of Psychosocial Problems in Older Adults. Overview of Prevention in Older Adults. Evaluation of the Older Adult. Medical action, such as assisted suicide by physicians such as Dr.
Jack Kevorkian and medical euthanasia are also forms of doctor originated iatrogenic death. A related concept is Institutional Damage but it can occur separately from the medical acts, even in a hospital. Cascade iatrogenesis is a series of increasingly more severe effects on the health of patients, caused by medical interventions which were applied to solve the previous one.
A good example was a real case of a patient who had severe arthritis. Cortisone therapy at a high dose was instituted and was effective for a while, but prolonged use caused the first iatrogenic effect in the cascade: diabetes.
Chronic diabetes increased the patient's susceptibility to infections and activated a latent pulmonary tuberculosis with hemoptysis. Cortisone treatment was suspended and substituted by ACTH therapy, which provoked adrenal insufficiency and severe osteoporosis , with painful spontaneous bone fractures including fracture of ribs caused by an external cardiopulmonary resuscitation attempt. Generalized organ failure and infection followed, with death. Iatrogenesis is a major phenomenon, and a severe risk to patients.
Complications were most strongly associated with exposure to drugs and medications. Based on these figures, , deaths per year constitutes the third leading cause of death in the United States, after deaths from heart disease and cancer. Also, there is a wide margin between these numbers of deaths and the next leading cause of death cerebrovascular disease. This totals , deaths per year from iatrogenic causes.
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