Abstract

RODRIGUEZ SALAZAR, Orlando  and  FUENTES DIAZ, Zaily. Protocol of the patient’s care with electric burns in the first 24 hours. AMC [online]. 2011, vol.15, n.3, pp.477-486. ISSN 1025-0255.

Background: burns are lesions that affect the integrity of the skin. The electric burns are very lethal by the development of immediate complications. The protocol in the first 24h of evolution will allow patients´ quick and safe attention. Objective: to characterize patients with electric burns in the first 24 hours. Method: a cross-cut descriptive study was conducted, to characterize patients with electric burns in the first 24 hours, admitted in the burn service at the University Hospital Manuel Ascunce Domenech, from September 2007 to September 2008. The universe was constituted by 24 patients from both sexes, admitted with electric burns diagnostic. The sample was formed of 22 patients that fulfilled the inclusion criteria. Results: masculine sex prevailed, between 19 and 49 years, no one was moisturized in their transferral. They were found complications, all were cardiovascular ones.  A protocol was made for the attention to the patients with electric burns in the first 24h with the obtained results. Conclusions: the characterization of patients with electric burns in our area, allows a vision characteristic of the problem and it achieves a proposal for protocolizing the attention in the first 24 hours of evolution, with the purpose of standardizing the way to follow and to minimize the appearance of complications, that way the therapy is updated on patients with this affection.

Keywords : BURNS, ELECTRIC; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; PATIENT CARE; EPIDEMIOLOGY, DESCRIPTIVE.

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