Cosmetic Tourism: Public Opinion and Analysis of Information and Content Available on the Internet

Nassab, Reza; Hamnett, Nathan; Nelson, Kate; Kaur, Simranjit; Greensill, Beverley; Dhital, Sanjiv K.; Juma, Ali

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“…They must be evaluated quickly and correctly to determine their viability to the procedures they want. It is common to see uncommon pathologies that do not contraindicate anesthesia, but can influence perioperative pharmacological management [2,89].…”

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“…Other interesting aspects that have grown around plastic surgery are ambulatory surgery units, short-stay units, and procedures performed in plastic surgeons' medical offices. It is important that anesthesiological care does not decline when surgery is performed in this type of facility and the media and plastic surgeons must be made aware, so they do not minimize the risks of this type of surgery, which from the point of view of the anesthesiologists are medium-and high-risk procedures [2,3]. Regardless of where the surgery is performed, patient safety should be the primary issue at the time of anesthesia-surgery and during its immediate recovery.…”

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Anesthesia for Plastic Surgery Procedures

Whizar-Lugo¹,

Cárdenas-Maytorena²

2019

Anesthesia Topics for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

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Plastic surgery is currently more popular and available with increasing frequency throughout the world. Its advances are related to progress in anesthesiology. Nowadays, it is possible to operate patients with pathologies that previously did not allow this type of surgery. The developments in perioperative monitoring, pharmacology, prevention of complications, and the wide communication between patients and physicians, as well as the development of surgical units that facilitate a prompt programming and reduce the total costs, have resulted in a logarithmic growth of plastic and reconstructive surgery procedures. Local, regional, or general anesthesia, anesthetic monitoring, or conscious sedation is used routinely, allowing to manage patients as ambulatory or short stay. Deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism remain the most frequent complications, followed by postoperative pain, nausea, and vomiting.

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Section: Challengesmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Anesthesia for Plastic Surgery Procedures

Whizar-Lugo¹,

Cárdenas-Maytorena²

2019

Anesthesia Topics for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

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“…42 These articles suggest that when prospective medical travelers turn to websites for information about risks and benefits of medical travel they are likely to encounter information that emphasizes benefits of medical care and pays limited attention to risks associated with surgery. The news reports prompt questions about information disclosure and the extent to which patient decision-making was informed but they do not provide insight into what information individuals received before deciding to have surgery.…”

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“…However, several recent publications raise troubling questions about the quality of information provided by websites of medical tourism companies and destination medical facilities. 42 These articles suggest that when prospective medical travelers turn to websites for information about risks and benefits of medical travel they are likely to encounter information that emphasizes benefits of medical care and pays limited attention to risks associated with surgery. 43 Reports of post-operative complications experienced by medical travelers as well as accounts of deaths reveal the importance of disclosing procedurerelated risks.…”

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News Media Reports of Patient Deaths Following ‘Medical Tourism’ for Cosmetic Surgery and Bariatric Surgery

Turner

2012

Developing World Bioethics

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Contemporary scholarship examining clinical outcomes in medical travel for cosmetic surgery identifies cases in which patients traveled abroad for medical procedures and subsequently returned home with infections and other surgical complications. Though there are peer-reviewed articles identifying patient deaths in cases where patients traveled abroad for commercial kidney transplantation or stem cell injections, no scholarly publications document deaths of patients who traveled abroad for cosmetic surgery or bariatric surgery. Drawing upon news media reports extending from 1993 to 2011, this article identifies and describes twenty-six reported cases of deaths of individuals who traveled abroad for cosmetic surgery or bariatric surgery. Over half of the reported deaths occurred in two countries. Analysis of these news reports cannot be used to make causal claims about why the patients died. In addition, cases identified in news media accounts do not provide a basis for establishing the relative risk of traveling abroad for care instead of seeking elective cosmetic surgery at domestic health care facilities. Acknowledging these limitations, the case reports suggest the possibility that contemporary peer-reviewed scholarship is underreporting patient mortality in medical travel. The paper makes a strong case for promoting normative analyses and empirical studies of medical travel. In particular, the paper argues that empirically informed ethical analysis of 'medical tourism' will benefit from rigorous studies tracking global flows of medical travelers and the clinical outcomes they experience. The paper contains practical recommendations intended to promote debate concerning how to promote patient safety and quality of care in medical travel.

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“…However, the internet sites are often lacking of adequate information concerning disease complications and aftercare [4]. This web-searching behaviour is often continuous, compulsory, somehow obsessive, leading to the "Web Babel Syndrome", defined as a physician-patient communication gap frequently occurring when the patient affected by multiple synchronous pathologies, feeds back heterogeneous and misleading informations and prescriptions with the risk to drop in a confusionary state [5][6][7][8].…”

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The “Second Opinion Medical Network”

Palmieri¹

2017

Int J Pathol Clin Res

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The "Second Opinion Medical Network" is a consultation referral web and medical office system recruiting a wide panel of real-time available specialists, to whom any patient affected by any disease or syndrome and not satisfied with the diagnosis or therapy can apply for an individual clinical audit. Due to the physician-patient communication gap, most of the patients usually wander around the medical websites looking for proper answers to their health problems. However, this search often becomes compulsive and obsessive and frequently ambiguous and frustrating. Palmieri, et al. defines this borderline or even pathological behavior as the "Web Babel Syndrome"-psychological imbalance affecting young and elderly patients, often with multiple synchronous diseases receiving by their care givers heterogeneous and misleading informations or advices, as well as, confused, contradictory statements and prescriptions. To deal with this problem, the "Second Opinion Medical Network" aims to be a useful "problem-solving" support revisiting each conflictual diagnostic and therapeutic step and properly re-addressing tailored treatments and prognoses, preventing unnecessary investigations and unhelpful and expensive medical and surgical interventions.The aim of this editorial is to describe the role and benefits of such a medical network in our web connected health care system. KeywordsSecond opinion, Network, Surgery, Cancer, EconomyIn 2002, a survey of 4,530 people in Europe and USA showed that 32% of Europeans and 43% of Americans preferred to use health web sites, sponsored by BBC and Yahoo, for health information [3]. However, the internet sites are often lacking of adequate information concerning disease complications and aftercare [4]. This web-searching behaviour is often continuous, compulsory, somehow obsessive, leading to the "Web Babel Syndrome", defined as a physician-patient communication gap frequently occurring when the patient affected by multiple synchronous pathologies, feeds back heterogeneous and misleading informations and prescriptions with the risk to drop in a confusionary state [5][6][7][8].In 1999, the Institute of Medicine report cited fatal medical errors in some 40,000-98,000 Americans PER year [8] supporting once more the concept that a further consultation or specialistic second opinion may be useful antidote to lethal misdiagnosis [9].The term "second opinion" has been widely reported also in histology [10,11] and pathology (e.g. thyroid pathology) [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] where the diagnosis is often difficult, misunderstood and strongly based on the healthcare professionals' experience. It has been defined as a qualified, interdisciplinary medical opinion, based on medical evidence, of an experienced medical specialist or a team [21]. An effective and helpful second opinion strategy in various pathologies (e.g. oral pathology) is the use of smartphones and software applications, such as WhatsApp Messenger, a crossplatform mobile messaging application that allows the exchang...

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Cosmetic Tourism: Public Opinion and Analysis of Information and Content Available on the Internet

Cited by 57 publications

References 2 publications

Anesthesia for Plastic Surgery Procedures

Anesthesia for Plastic Surgery Procedures

News Media Reports of Patient Deaths Following ‘Medical Tourism’ for Cosmetic Surgery and Bariatric Surgery

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