2015, Number 6
Characteristics of surgical patients with need of mechanical ventilation
Language: Spanish
References: 20
Page: 559-567
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ABSTRACT
Background: acute respiratory insufficiency is present in about the 40 % of surgical patients; it is the main cause of mechanical ventilation and increase mortality.Objective: to characterize the behavior of ventilated surgical patients.
Method: an observational, descriptive, prospective, longitudinal-section study was conducted including 394 patients who had underwent an abdominal surgical procedure and were admitted in the intensive care unit of Joaquín Albarrán Domínguez Hospital from January 1st, 2013 to December 31st, 2014. The sample was composed of 75 patients who required mechanical ventilation and matched the inclusion criteria.
Results: the 15, 2 % of the total of patients admitted in the intensive care unit, were ventilated; it was deadly in the 28 % and the mortality was of a 23, 8 %. There was a significant association between the condition of the patients when discharged from the hospital and the mechanical ventilation. Neoplastic diseases and secondary peritonitis were the main diagnosis at the admission of the patients. Pneumonia associated to ventilation and septic shock, were the main complications. Septic shock was the most common cause of death.
Conclusions: mortality in ventilated surgical patients was under the worldwide standards being sepsis the main complication and cause of death.
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