2020, Number 2
Characterization of patients with cerebrovascular diseases assisted in the Intensive care unit in Jaruco
Language: Spanish
References: 20
Page: 117-129
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ABSTRACT
Introduction: Progressive aging in the population increases the incidence and prevalence of cerebrovascular diseases which constitute cause of death and neurologic invalidity.Objective: To characterize patients with cerebrovascular diseases assisted in the Intensive Care Unit at ¨Noelio Capote¨ Teaching Policlinic in Jaruco.
Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out from January to December, 2018. The universe was composed by 51 patients with suggestive clinical manifestations of the disease and the sample 46 patients who fulfilled the established criteria. The variables studied were: age, sex, risk factors, clinical forms, assistance in the municipal Intensive Care Unit and pre-hospital mortality. The information as obtained by interviews and revision of patients ‘charts of the service, performing the statistical analysis using the software for Windows, SPSS-15.0.
Results: Patients with 70 to 79 years old and the male sex prevailed. The most frequent risk factors were: hypertension, smoking habit, sedentary life style and malnutrition by excess, being more frequent in the male sex. The clinical forms that prevailed were ischemia; and the managements taken in the service were general measures and the control of the disease they suffered from. Only two patients died.
Conclusions: It can be said as a conclusion that cerebrovascular diseases are related to the increasing of age and the presence of risk factors, such as: hypertension, smoking habit, sedentary life style and obesity among others. Ischemia prevailed, general and other measures were applied, pre-hospital mortality was low.
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