bachelorThesis
Prevalencia de la luxación acromioclavicular y tratamientos en pacientes del Hospital José Carrasco Arteaga en el periodo enero 2010 a diciembre 2014
Fecha
2016Autor
Salinas Pulla, Edgar Sebastián
González Suárez, Daniel Alejandro
Institución
Resumen
BACKGROUND: Acromioclavicular dislocation is shoulder injury most prevalent in those who play contact sports, it also relates to a high rate of transit accidents, by what is important to know its prevalence and the risk factors associated for appropriate treatment.
GENERAL OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence of acromioclavicular dislocation and treatments in patients in the Hospital José Carrasco Arteaga in the period January 2010 December 2014.
METHODOLOGY: A cross-sectional descriptive study was used, whose universe were the medical records of patients who received at the emergency service at the hospital José Carrasco Arteaga from January 2010 to December 2014.
Information was collected from the AS 400 data base, it was analyzed using SPSS 15.0 and Epi -Info 7 using frequency distributions and percentages. The results are presented in graphs, and simple and combined tables.
RESULTS. In this study 120 patients diagnosed of acromioclavicular dislocation, showed a prevalence of 3.7 cases for each 1.000, who were treated in the José Carrasco Arteaga hospital. In this study 86 cases were included. The most affected were men representing 91.9 %. The dislocation most common was type III representing 59.3 %. The associate injury most common was the clavicle fracture in 4.7 %. The most frequent mechanism was the direct impact with 91.9 % of the cases. Treatment varies depending on the type of dislocation. Of these cases, 41, 9 % was associated with traffic accidents