bachelorThesis
Prevalencia y características del tratamiento de la pancreatitis aguda biliar, en el Hospital “Vicente Corral Moscoso”, período enero 2014 – diciembre 2017, Cuenca
Fecha
2019-03-26Autor
Cañar Mendes, Andrea Estefanía
Vidal Durazno, Paola Nicole
Institución
Resumen
Background: acute pancreatitis presents an overall incidence between 15 to 80 cases per year for every 100,000 adults, depending on the geographical area, with biliary origin being the most common. Latin America reports an incidence of 15.9 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
Objective: to determine the prevalence and characteristics of the treatment of acute biliary pancreatitis in the Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso, from January 2014 to December 2017.
Methodology: it is a descriptive-retrospective study, with 207 clinical files of patients with diagnosis of acute biliary pancreatitis in the internal medicine, emergency and surgery services of the Hospital "Vicente Corral Moscoso" of the city of Cuenca, in the period 2014-2017. The data was analyzed with SPSS version 19.0.
Results: the patients were predominantly women, and under 38 years of age. The main symptoms were abdominal pain, followed by nausea and vomiting, many patients had more than one symptom. Local and systemic complications were infrequent. Most patients did not present organic failure, and those that had some type were mainly transient.
Conclusions: the prevalence of PAB in the Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso, from 2014 to 2017 was 0.21%, with a rate of 2.11 cases per 1000 attended in clinic and surgery. Clinical and surgical treatment were the most used, blood volume repair and most required enteral nutritional support. For the management of pain, a combination of analgesics was used mainly.