Caracterización de las quemaduras en los pacientes asistidos, en un hospital de segundo nivel de la ciudad de Guayaquil.

Abstract

Introduction: The burns are injuries produced in living tissues, due to the action of various physical agents (flames, liquids or hot objects, radiation, electric current, cold), chemical (caustic) and biological, which cause alterations that range from a simple erythema transitory until the total destruction of the structures, whose general objective was to characterize the burns of the patients assisted in the burn unit of a second level hospital in the city of Guayaquil. Type of study: descriptive, cross-sectional, quantitative, retrospective, the population consisted of 100 patients admitted to the burn area. Instruments for data collection was an indirect observation sheet. Results: 66% of the patients admitted were men, ranging in age from 22 to 32 years; they were admitted more than 8 days and 67%; hot liquids were the cause in 36%; the affected regions were the upper extremities in 49%; the microorganisms that most developed infections were Pseudomonas with 69%. Conclusion: 66% of the patients who enter the hospital ceibos are men and the most frequent cause is from burns from hot liquids from car radiators.