Consecuencias del tratamiento empírico no médico de fracturas de metáfisis distal de radio en preescolares y escolares del Hospital de niños Dr. Francisco de Icaza Bustamante.

Abstract

Introduction: Bone trauma during pediatric age is one of the main health problems that causes temporary or permanent disabling injuries. The population of our country has ancestral and natural characteristics, they tend to overlap with knowledge based on scientific evidence, which is why they are exposed to non-medical empirical treatment by untrained personnel to give a correct resolution to these injuries. Objective: Identify the consequences of non-medical empirical treatment in fractures of the distal metaphysis of the radius in preschoolers and schoolchildren of the Dr. Francisco de Icaza Bustamante Children's Hospital. Methodology: An observational, cross-sectional, retrospective and descriptive study was carried out in pediatric patients with non-medical empirical treatment of forearm fracture prior to their admission to the Francisco Icaza Bustamante Hospital. Results: 20 patients were obtained who met the inclusion criteria. The patients were taken to sobadores 1 to 2 times. Their length of stay in the hospital ranged from 2 to 10 days with an average of 7.3 days. 25% of the sample presented complications after treatment by sobadores. Cases were found with edema, wound granuloma, functional impotence, cellulitis, and one case of chronic osteomyelitis. Those patients who were fondled only once had 3 cases of complications, while those who were fondled twice presented one case of complication. Conclusion: Complications such as edema, wound granuloma, functional impotence, cellulitis, and a case of chronic osteomyelitis, although the number of visits to the sobador did not find a statistically significant relationship with the presence of complications.