Adverse effect related to surgical procedures

Abstract

Introduction: Adverse events are an important source of morbidity and mortality and are defined as an unintentional injury or complication that leads to a prolonged hospital stay, disability at discharge or death, caused by the management of the disease. health care and not by the underlying disease of the patients. Adverse events occur with a higher incidence due to the inadequate practice of health personnel. Objective: This research aims to identify adverse events related to surgical procedures through a systematic review. Methodology: Integrative literature review to investigate studies on adverse events reported in the medical, health services and nursing literature. For this purpose, a total of 20 scientific articles related to the subject of study were analyzed in databases such as: SciELO, Medline, Pubmed, Redalyc, Elsevier. Results: The results indicate that adverse events related to surgical procedures occur more frequently than other types of adverse events, are more often preventable and their consequences are more serious. Therefore, surgical adverse events have an important impact on the burden of adverse events during hospitalizations. Conclusions: Avoidable adverse events in health care are frequent and seeking to understand the systemic conditions in which errors occur is of vital importance to maintain the safety and integrity of patients, the continuous improvement of quality and the adequate management of risks based on protocols that minimize the problem.