Iatrogenic Complications in Surgery Five Yearsʼ Experience in General and Vascular Surgery in a University Hospital

Abstract

Advances in medicine that have led to more sophisticated methods of diagnosing, treating and monitoring patients take an ever increasing toll in iatrogenic complications. The net effect may be an improvement in care but minimizing iatrogenic complications will increase the benefit to the patients of the ever increasing complex methods of treatment. Iatrogenic complications tend to be sporadic and varied in nature, and are difficult to study as a group. Psychological and medicolegal problems add to this difficulty. To decrease the incidence of iatrogenic complications, a concerted effort was made to study them.