International Journal of Dental and Medical Specialty Vol 1 ● Issue 1 ● Jul-Sep 2014 21 Mishaps and Errors in Surgery: A New Chapter (Review) Anand Kumar, Ram K. Srivastava, Iqbal Ali, Puneet Wadhwani, Harmurti Singh Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Career Post Graduate Institute of Dental Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India ABSTRACT Health providers either a physician or specialized surgeon make mistakes. They may do errors in procedure, interpretation, ignorance or indeed, seldom, and recklessness. Although in every event, a patient may suffer each time whenever a mistake happens. Despite of that event, every point an error transpires, a case may feel. One fails to uphold one profession’s rudimentary oath: “First, do no harm.” At the cessation be forced to decide to gather all the errors and mistakes made by a dental surgeon or a medical professional and aimed to script it. In this reader, surgeons, health providers and medical professionals can obtain a panel of delegates and article proceeding with the approach of studying from errors moreover should not execute it again and again. Key words: Complication, error, mistakes, surgery INTRODUCTION Most of the patients believe in the expertise of our doctors and hospitals. Medical error is a particularly serious problem, and efforts should be made to reduce it. Sometimes favorable post-surgical consequences can see in surgery due to effects of any oversight treatment plan. Apologies are crucial in managing the relationship with the patient, and it can be established on belief and mutual admiration. Several surgical or medical errors are generated by people other than doctors, the indicated are acknowledged as quacks. [1] ERRORS A medication error [2] is “a failure in the treatment process that leads to, or has the potential to lead to or harm to the patient.” Effective communication and teamwork are essential for the delivery of high quality and safe patient care. Inadvertently communication failures greatly harms to patients. [3] The aforementioned errors can be classified according to severity of damage made by surgeons to patients are as follows: 1. Errors done by operating surgeon: • Misdiagnosis together with incomplete knowledge • Incomplete documentation and communication with patients • Post-surgical complications • Suggesting un-necessary surgery, test and procedures • Unethical practice and consent form not taken. 2. Errors done by operation theatre (OT) technician and operating assistant: • Incomplete documentation and post-operative care • Maintenance of sterilization and asepsis • Lack of knowledge. 3. Errors by patients: • Taking medicine from un-authorized and non- degree person Address for correspondence: Dr. Anand Kumar, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Career Post Graduate Institute of Dental Sciences, Lucknow - 226 016, Uttar Pradesh, India. E-mail: anandkmr901@gmail.com Submission: 10 Jul 2014; Revision: 22 Jul 2014; Acceptance: 12 Aug 2014 Review Article Access this article online Publisher Website: http://www.renupublishers.com DOI: ***