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- [countable, usually plural] (medical) a new problem or illness that makes treatment of a previous one more complicated or difficult She developed complications after the surgery.
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What Are Medical Complications? • The term “complication” has many meanings – CMS uses “complication” to describe a diagnosis that occurs during a hospital admission • Complication or comorbidity (CC) or a major complication or comorbidity (MCC) – ICD-10-CM has a set of codes that are defined as “complication codes”
Identify the roles of the four types of word parts used in forming medical terms. Use your knowledge of word parts to analyze unfamiliar medical terms. Describe the steps in locating a term in a medical dictionary. Define the commonly used word roots, combining forms, suffixes, and prefixes introduced in this chapter.
- Introduction
- Historical Perspective
- What Is a Complication?
- What Is a Complication? The Philosophical Aspects
A 56-year-old female patient with a past medical history of hypertension and type II diabetes mellitus undergoes a diagnostic aneurysm at 1 year after coil emboliza-tion of an anterior communicating artery aneurysm. Fortunately, the aneurysm had been coiled prior to rupture, and the patient had not suffered any neurological defi-cits. Other than s...
For as long as there has been the practice of medicine, there has been the potential for an unexpected, unwanted, and uncommon outcome. Mostly focused on surgical, or procedural, treatments, the concept of the complication was recognized since the days of Hammurabi, describing, for example, cutting the hand of the surgeon whose patient (of high sta...
Medical complications are difficult to define, making them challenging to differ-entiate from medical errors and at times leaving a medical outcome up to one’s interpretation. The term “complication” has had a broad definition. As was dis-cussed above, it reflected any event or outcome that was unwanted or unexpected, whether within or outside of t...
A medical complication is an undesired outcome which may not be under the con-trol of the physician. Complications are results which were not desired but within the scope of potential outcomes. Medical errors and mistakes, in contrast, occur because of negligence or misguided action. For example, a complication would be a postoperative hematoma des...
- Neil Majmundar, Celina Crisman, Charles J. Prestigiacomo
- 2018
1. one or more disease (s) concurrent with another disease. 2. the occurrence of two or more diseases in the same patient. 3. an injury or disorder occurring in a patient with a pre-existing condition. Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc.
Grade 3 complications were defined as complications leading to lasting disability or organ resection, and finally, a Grade 4 complication indicated death of a patient due to a complication. The modified classification is presented in Table 1 with clinical examples in Table 2.
- Daniel Dindo, Nicolas Demartines, Pierre Alain Clavien
- 10.1097/01.sla.0000133083.54934.ae
- 2004
- Ann Surg. 2004 Aug; 240(2): 205-213.
Changes of note in the MedDRA Introductory Guide Version 21.0 include: Section 4.8 BODY SITE CONSIDERATIONSAdditional explanation is provided to support that in general, the abdominal wall is classified in Me. Appendix B: MedDRA CONCEPT DESCRIPTIONS: New Concept Description Product storage has been added.
The website’s definition – ‘any undesirable result of surgery’ – captures an essential part of a complication: it must be undesirable. There is no such thing as a good surgical complication. The definition, though pleasingly simple, is nonetheless inadequate. An unsightly operative scar is undesirable but not necessarily a complication.
