%0 Journal Article
%T Morbilidad y mortalidad del paciente geri¨¢trico intervenido de urgencia
%A Yora Orta
%A Rub¨¦n
%A Seguras LLanes
%A Omar
%A Rivas Pardo
%A Lidia Aurora
%A Pompa Rodr¨ªguez
%A Dania Yusim¨ª
%J Revista Cubana de Anestesiolog£¿-a y Reanimaci£¿3n
%D 2012
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%X introduction: as a result of the increase in life expectancy, more patients aged over 60 undergo surgery, and a large number of them undergo emergency surgery. objective: describe anesthetic morbidity and mortality of cardiovascular origin in geriatric patients undergoing emergency surgery. methods: a prospective longitudinal descriptive study was conducted of 123 patients aged over 60 at leopoldito mart¨ªnez general teaching hospital from january 2010 to december 2011. the data were collected from medical records and anesthesia protocols. results: 34.1 % of the patients had a history of cardiovascular disease, and arterial hypertension was predominant in 15.4 %. smoking was the most frequent risk factor (26.8 %), and herniorrhaphy was the most common emergency intervention (33.3 %). the anesthetic method most frequently used was general anesthesia (68.3 %), with a predominance of general orotracheal anesthesia. most cardiovascular complications appeared during the transoperative period. five patients died (4.1 %), with no death attributable to the anesthetic procedure applied. conclusions: a direct relationship was found between anesthetic morbidity of cardiovascular origin and mortality in geriatric patients undergoing emergency surgery.
%K geriatric patient
%K cardiovascular morbidity and mortality
%K emergency surgery.
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