López-Rabassa SI, Paz-Estrada C, López-Lazo S, González-Rodríguez GS, Rabassa SN

Language: Spanish
References: 20
Page: 275-282
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ABSTRACT

The fact that the error is human was emphasized by the publication of Medicin’s Institute (USA) than in 2000 did to exploit the problem in the medical worldwide space: To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System. Human beings, in all lines of work, make errors, human error in medicine is a global social problem, with important consequences, generating the worry of the Medical society worldwide in present-day. Moments where technology develops by leaps and bounds, could have guaranteed this «security, quality and excellence» being the expectations of all the patients. Anesthesiology is identified like leader in the care of the patient, with an important decrease of anesthetic mortality of late years, 1:250,000, however, it’s not rid of accidents from errors, because once the frequency, variety and potency of the drugs that are used, the potential risk exists and a mistake can be produced and the outcome can be disastrous. Analyze the origins, causes and factors that influence his appearing, problems at our surgeries as well as proposed measures decreasing his incidence backed in the medicine Based in proof. To err is human and also a learning mechanism, became a threat for the modern man, being relatively frequent and still dangerous in sciences but of very particular form in the medicine.

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