That revelation may have ruffled the feathers of some readers, particularly if they were employed in the medical professions, so I am enlarging on that statement […] An iatrogenic disorder occurs when the deleterious effects of the therapeutic or diagnostic regimen causes pathology independent of the condition for which the regimen is advised. The dollar cost of iatrogenic infections is $4.5 billion, according to the CDC.

Definition of an “iatrogenic” disorder: A disorder inadvertently induced by a health caregiver because of a surgical, medical, drug or vaccine treatment or by a diagnostic procedure. National Patient Safety Foundation . The ERS-education website provides centralised access to all educational material produced by the European Respiratory Society.

It is the world’s largest CME collection for lung diseases and treatment offering high quality e-learning and teaching resources for respiratory specialists.

Iatrogenic disease syndromes are significantly influenced by different routes of infection. It would be impossible to provide the benefits of modern medicine if reasonable steps in diagnosis and treatment were withheld because of possible risks . 29 Introduction of the infectious agent into the brain parenchyma, directly or via the optic nerve, produces an illness that is in all respects similar to sporadic CJD (Table 43‐6).

In last week’s column I wrote that iatrogenic disorders (a doctor-, drug-, vaccine-, surgery- or other medical treatment-caused disorder) were the third leading cause of death in the US. This distance learning portal contains up-to-date study material for the state-of-the-art in Pulmonology. Iatrogenic infections are directly responsible for 20,000 deaths among hospital patients in the U.S. each year, and they contribute to an additional 70,000 deaths, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control CDC).

In last week’s column I wrote that iatrogenic disorders (a doctor-, drug-, vaccine-, surgery- or other medical treatment-caused disorder) were the third leading cause of death in the US.

PowerPoint Presentation: Drug-induced Kidney Disease – Pathology and Current Concepts Alwin HL Loh,1 MBChB( Hons ), FRCPath , Arthur H Cohen,2,3MD Iatrogenic Disorders Lt Gen NR Krishnan, PHS ( Retd )*, Brig AS Kasthuri , VSM ( Retd )+MJAFI 2005; 61 : 2-6 DERMATOLOGY THERAPEUTICSACNE, PSORIASIS & DRUG INDUCED SKIN DISORDERS TH …