Utilidad de la gastronomía en la prevención de neumonías en pacientes con parálisis cerebral infantil.

Abstract

Patients with infantile cerebral palsy can present complications in many systems, respiratory complications being of greater importance, this being the first cause of morbidity and mortality. Gastrostomy has been used to improve respiratory complications and weight gain in this group of patients. The objective of this research work is to determine the usefulness of gastrostomy in the prevention of admissions due to pneumonia in patients with infantile cerebral palsy. This is a non-experimental, retrospective, descriptive, relational study, were taken the patients evaluated in the ambulatory care and hospitalization with a diagnosis of PCI who underwent gastrostomy, obtaining a total of 108 patients, where the number was compared of admissions for pneumonia before and after gastrostomy, using the Wilcoxon Test, finding an average admissions of 1.62 vs 1.68 before and after gastrostomy respectively with a P = 0.609. Gastrostomy was not useful in the prevention of admissions for pneumonia in patients with infantile cerebral palsy, since it did not influence the reduction of admissions after the procedure.