Características clinicoepidemiológicas de pacientes ingresados por crisis hipertensivas en la unidad de cuidados intensivos de Santa Lucía / Clinical epidemiological characteristics of hospitalised patients due to hypertensive crisis in the intensive care unit of Santa Lucia
Medisan
;
15(3): 316-322, mar. 2011.
Article
in Spanish
| LILACS
| ID: lil-585362
RESUMEN
Se realizó un estudio descriptivo y prospectivo de 117 pacientes ingresados en la Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos del Hospital Victoria de Santa Lucía por presentar crisis hipertensivas, desde enero hasta octubre de 2008, a fin de caracterizarles según variables clinicoepidemiológicas (edad, sexo, así como antecedentes patológicos personales y familiares, entre otras). Se halló que los malos hábitos dietéticos y los estilos de vida inadecuados favorecieron el descontrol de la tensión arterial, de manera que los cuidados y labor educativa de enfermería fueron determinantes en la disminución de los graves efectos ejercidos por los factores de riesgo encontrados.
ABSTRACT
A descriptive and prospective study was carried out in 117 patients hospitalised in the Intensive Care Unit of Victoria Hospital in Santa Lucia due to hypertensive crisis, from January to October, 2008, aimed at characterize them according to clinical epidemiological variables (age, sex, as well as personal and family backgrounds, among others). It was found that the bad dietary habits and inappropriate life styles favoured the uncontrolled blood pressure so that care and nursing educative work were determinant in decreasing the severe effects exerted by the risk factors found.
Full text:
Available
Index:
LILACS (Americas)
Main subject:
Critical Care
/
Ambulatory Care
/
Hypertension
/
Intensive Care Units
/
Nursing Care
Type of study:
Observational study
/
Risk factors
Limits:
Female
/
Humans
/
Male
Country/Region as subject:
English Caribbean
/
Saint Lucia
Language:
Spanish
Journal:
Medisan
Journal subject:
Medicine
Year:
2011
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Cuba
Institution/Affiliation country:
Hospital Provincial Docente Clinicoquirúrgico Saturnino Lora/CU
Similar
MEDLINE
...
LILACS
LIS