2015, Number 3
Posoperative pulmonary complications in patients admitted to the Intensive Care Service
Language: Spanish
References: 20
Page: 235-245
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ABSTRACT
Introduction: surgery and anesthesia cause the increase of risk of suffering pulmonary complications.Objective: to evaluate the behavior of respiratory complications in surgical patients.
Methods: prospective, longitudinal and cohort study of 526 surgical patients who were admitted to the intensive care service of "Joaquin Albarrán Dominguez" university hospital from January 1st 2012 to December 31st 2014. The sample was made up of 127 surgical patients who presented with respiratory complications.
Results: in this group, 24.1% of patients suffered respiratory complications. The highest percentage of deaths occurred in the 71-80 year age group (9.4%) followed by the 61-70 y group (6.2%). These results were significant (p ≤ 0.05). Of the number of deaths, 18.8% occurred in emergency surgeries, with over 2-hour surgical time in 12.5% of cases. There was significant association between the surgical time and mortality (p ≤ 0.05). The number of reoperations and mortality were not related (p=3.721). In the sample, 35.4% had nosocomial bacterial bronchopneumonia followed by acute respiratory failure (22.8%). The main cause of death in 50% of patients was multiple organ failure followed by pulmonary infarction in 13.8%.
Conclusions: the main respiratory complications in surgical patients were nosocomial infections prompted by the older age, emergency operations and surgical times over 2 hours with high frequency and lethality. Nosocomial bacterial bronchopneumonia is the main cause of death associated to multiple organ failure.
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