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VALLONGO MENENDEZ, Marina Beatriz et al. The intraoperative cardiac arrest in Cuba. Rev cuba anestesiol reanim [online]. 2009, vol.8, n.1, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1726-6718.

Introduction: Cardio-respiratory arrest (CRA) is an incident present in the surgical patient. In our country, despite, it is in a subjective way, decreasing in the operating theatres, until now there isn't papers published in the website of the Cuban Journals of Telematic Network. Objective: To offer results of a research on this topic to identify: incidence in elective surgical procedures, and of emergence, main causes and patient group where it was more frequent, and in a indirect way, not to know how these variable behaviors in the remainder of the country. Methods: Authors made a prospective-descriptive study of CRAs occurred in surgical unit of "Hermanos Ameijeiras" Surgical Clinical Hospital from May 1998 to December 2000, present in operating theatres after arrival of patient with vital signs present. We excluded the multiple organ donors. In a special model it was registered: demographic and anamnestic elements of each patient and results. Results: There were 23 CRAs. They were more frequent in emergence surgery, in patient older than 60 years, in III-IV-V groups according ASA classification, and surgical risk, regular or poor. Main causes: Results obtained not differ from those reported by other authors until moment of this report.

Palabras clave : Cardiac arrest; Intraoperative cardiac arrest; Epidemiology.