Emergency surgical interventions at the Hospital General Universitario “Dr. Gustavo Aldereguía Lima” from Cienfuegos

Abstract

Introduction: surgical activity has taken on a notable role within the area of patient care with situations whose danger to life is immediate or not. However, there are few studies focused on their analysis. Objective: to describe the emergency surgical interventions was carried out at the Hospital General Universitario "Gustavo Aldereguía Lima", in Cienfuegos, during the first quarter of 2021. Method: an observational, descriptive, retrospective cross-sectional study on a sample of 196 interventions emergency surgical procedures, out of a universe of 252, performed at the aforementioned institution. The variables were studied: month of intervention, sex, age group, nosological entity, type of surgery and color code. Information was collected from the individual operative report. Results: the month of March provided 116 interventions (59%). Male sex predominated with 103 cases (52.55%) and the age group 18-35 (59 patients, 30.10%). Acute appendicitis was the outstanding entity with 49 cases (25%). Clean contaminated surgeries represented 61.73% (121 interventions). Code yellow cases constituted 92.35% of the total (181 cases). Conclusions: most of the complications were located in young men and young adults, some cases moved towards middle age. Acute appendicitis was the outstanding manifestation, hence the highest number of clean surgeries contaminated and classified as code yellow according to the color scale.

Keywords

• cirugía general
• intervención quirúrgica
• procedimientos quirúrgicos operático
• urgencias médicas