Medical Error in Light of the SARS COV-2 Pandemic
Medical Error in Light of the SARS COV-2 Pandemic

Summary/Abstract: The global pandemic of COVID-19 has significantly changed our lives, and mostly doctors because of their direct participation in the management of the pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has had an extremely large impact on many aspects of health care. Doctors, who, more than the rest of the population infected with COVID, were in a situation where they were faced with the pandemic 24 hours a day, seven days a week, were faced with fatigue and exhaustion. Physician burnout and oversaturation can lead to decreased patient care, increased medical errors, and poor health. Oversaturation of frontline healthcare workers has become a major problem during the pandemic. On the other hand, doctors working in preclinical departments had a lack of interaction with patients, without much clinical professional work, i.e. they were faced with the fact that profession and work experience did not have a significant impact on the final outcomes in the treatment of those infected with COVID. Total workload and work during both the first and second waves were positively correlated with exhaustion. Factors that had a decisive influence on the level of stress for doctors were lack of knowledge and excessive responsibility, workload and work environment, ethical stress, organization and teamwork. Also, during the first wave of the pandemic, doctors who worked with COVID patients were faced with the fact that they were working without adequate protective equipment, which included masks, visors, gloves and protective overalls, which, in addition to all the previously mentioned facts and circumstances, represented maybe even the biggest pressure. This paper aims to describe the level of stress that medical workers were faced with and the impact of their exhaustion on possible errors during the treatment of patients during the SARS CoV-2 pandemic.

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