The golden moment after an adverse event

Care of the clinician after an adverse event.

The past two decades has seen a growing understanding that health care leads to harm in a large number of patients. With this insight has come an understanding that clinicians who care for patients who are harmed experience an understandable and predictable emotional response. After an adverse event, medical care givers may experience a wide range of symptoms including anger, guilt, shame, fear...

An unforeseeable adverse event during ERCP.

A 24-year-old previously healthy woman was involved in a bus accident in Nepal and sustained major blunt abdominal trauma with complete transection of the pancreatic neck. After 16 days of emergency stabilization in a local hospital, she was transferred to our center. Even though she appeared asymptomatic, abdominal imaging confirmed disconnected pancreatic duct syndrome with a 10-cm fluid coll...

Towards an Adverse Event Reporting Ontology

Paraesthesia after local anaesthetics: an analysis of reports to the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System.

This study was aimed to evaluate the possible alert signals of paraesthesia by local anaesthetics, focusing on those used in dentistry. A case/non-case study of spontaneous adverse events recorded in FAERS (FDA Adverse Event Reporting System) between 2004 and 2011 was performed. Cases were represented by the reports of reactions grouped under the term 'Paraesthesias and dysaesthesias' involving...

An Architectural Framework for an Adverse Drug Event Surveillance System

Young Ho Lee, Ji Eun Choi, Ga Eul Cha, Kyung Jin Lee, Hee Joung Hwang, ByungMun Lee, Rae Woong Park, MD (1)Gachon University of Medicine and Science, Inchon (2)Regional Clinical Trial Center, Ajou University Hospital, Suwon (3)Department of Medical Informatics, School of Medicine, Ajou Universy, Suwon, Republic of Korea ABSTRACT Much effort has focused on detecting as many adverse drug events (...