Correlación de la saturación de oxígeno con la Escala de Wood Downes-Ferrés vs Score Pulmonar para determinar gravedad en pacientes con crisis asmática ingresados en el Hospital Roberto Gilbert Elizalde de enero a diciembre 2019.

Abstract

Introduction: Asthma is one of the most common chronic diseases during childhood, affecting around 5 to 10% of children. A series of scales have been proposed to assess the severity of these patients: Wood Downes-Ferrés, the Scarfone pulmonary index, Ellis, the clinical assessment of asthma, the Pulmonary Score; however, no consensus has been reached for the universal use of a scale. This is why the main objective of this study is to determine the correlation of the Wood Downes-Ferrés Scale vs. the Pulmonary Score with oxygen saturation to determine the severity of patients with asthmatic attacks. Methods: An observational, retrospective, cross-sectional, relational-level analytical study was carried out. Patients with a confirmed discharge diagnosis of asthmatic status or crisis or bronchial asthma admitted by the Emergency area at the Roberto Gilbert Elizalde Hospital in the period January - December 2019 were considered. Results: The results of the pulmonary score were correlated with oxygen saturation and a Pearson coefficient of -0.2296 was obtained. Something similar was done with the Wood Downes-Ferrés scale, correlating the values obtained with the corresponding oxygen saturation of each patient. Data analysis obtained a weak and negative Pearson correlation of -0.2212. Conclusions: According to the results of this study, neither the Wood-Downes-Ferrés scale nor the Pulmonary Score could be correlated to an objective measure such as oxygen saturation.