Iatrogenia em Medicina Intensiva

• Autor(a) principal: Canineu, Rafael [UNIFESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2006
• Outros Autores: Guimarães, Hélio Penna [UNIFESP], Lopes, Renato Delascio [UNIFESP], Vendrame, Letícia Sandre [UNIFESP], Fonseca Júnior, Max Artur Da [UNIFESP], Lopes, Antonio Carlos [UNIFESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNIFESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0103-507X2006000100015; http://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/2938
• topic: adverse events; iatrogenic; intensive care; eventos adversos; Iatrogênia; Medicina Intensiva

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Iatrogenic conditions was due of the medical, correctly intervention or not, justified or not, which harmful consequences to the patient. The cares in Intensive Care Medicine present substantial challenges with relation to the security of the patient. The objective of this article is to make one brief revision of literature on the iatrogenic in its concepts and basic terms and its taxes prevalence in Intensive Care Medicine. CONTENTS: Intensive Care Medicine supplies subsidies that improve the morbidity and mortality, but that also the significant risks of adverse events and serious errors associate. The Iatrogenic can be minimized with the adequate monitorization or can be friction as waited aggravation, idiopathic and if to perpetuate in the anonymity. CONCLUSIONS: It is basic to recognize the necessity of the constant learning and recycling and conscience of the susceptibilities to the error; in this context, the respect for the human being must guide the professional behavior.