Abstract

CRIBEIRO MONSERRATE, Luz María; RIVERO MARTINEZ, Nuria  and  ESTEVEZ ALVAREZ, Nizahel. MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY IN URGENCIES AND EMERGENCIES AT THE BOYEROS POLICLINIC. Rev haban cienc méd [online]. 2009, vol.8, n.2. ISSN 1729-519X.

A descriptive retrospective study was carried out to determine the morbimortality of the hipertensive crisis that were presented in the urgency service from the Boyereos Poloclinic in the period among January to June 2006. In the investigation an empirical and a theoretical system of methods were applied such as the documentary analysis and a questionaire. The obtained information was processed SPSS11.0. With the study the crisis were classified in hipertensive crisis in urgencies and emergencies corresponding the 43, 29 % to the emergencies and the 56,7% to the urgencies. The male sex was predominant in the emergency with a 54,4% and a 54% in the urgency. The groups of ages of 40 - 79 years were presented more events of urgencies as in hypertensive emergencies. The risk factor that highly affected were age, smoking, obesity, associated cardiopathies as in the urgency as in the hypertensive emergency. The predominant clinical forms were the dyspnea, the taquicard the precordialgia the pain toraxico, i make dizzy and the cefalea. The most frequent complication were the affections cardiovascular cerebrovascular. The evolution of the emergencies resulted the 90,4% remitted and the 9,52% passed away and in the urgency the 81.8% evolued satisfactorily and the 18.18% were remitted to the second level

Keywords : Urgency; Emergency Hipertensive.

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