Abstract

DIAZ TOLEDO, Manuel; SARDUY PANEQUE, Manuel Arbelio; FERNANDEZ GARCIA, Sergio  and  CALVO ALVAREZ, Yhasnaiby. Characterization of patients whit bronchial asthma, attended by urgency at juridic center neumological hospital 2007-2008. Rev haban cienc méd [online]. 2011, vol.10, n.3, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1729-519X.

A transversal, prospective and descriptive study was done with the objective of characterizing a group of patients with a diagnosis of Bronchial Asthma that were attended in the emergency service at the Educational Neumological Hospital, in the period from November 2007 to April 2008. This study was formed by 148 patients who were interviewed structurally to obtain the necessary information for the development of investigation. Some sociodemografic variables were studied, age of the beginning of the disease, frecuency of crisis, intercrisis treatment, the frecuency they go to the emergency service and appointment continuation. The most porcentage of studied patients were founded in the group of 36- 45 years old perdominating the female sex. The most number of the total of studied patients was diagnosed before 5 years of age. Most of them that had more than 10 cisis annually didnt have intercrisis treatment. Those who didnt have an appointment continuation went with more frecuency to the emergency service.

Keywords : Bronchial asthma; intercrisis treatment; acute crisis.

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