Prevalencia de complicaciones infecciosas en pacientes quemados menores de 12 años de edad hospitalizados en el área de UCIN y de UCIP en el Hospital Alcívar año 2019 - 2021.

Abstract

Burns in pediatric population has been considered as one of the most common causes of skin lesions in dermal, sub dermal and soft tissues depending of the origin of the burn, extension and depth, in fact burns is not a disease, almost all of them occur by accidents in the house or other places, about the complications the infections are the most common, so for that reason it increase the morbidity and mortality. Objective: Estimate the prevalence of infection complications in burn patients with age less than 12 years old than are hospitalized in UCIN and UCIP area in Alcivar Hospital between the years 2019-2021. Methodology: It has been made a descriptive, observactional, retrospective, transversal study in kids with age less than 12 years old that were hospitalized in Alcivar Hospital with the diagnostic of burn during the period of 2019-20221. It were analyzed 43 patients with burn diagnostic, it was considered some variables as age, sex, burned body surface, depth and zone of the lesion. Results: During January 20219 and August 2021 in Alcivar Hospital were entered in the Hospital 43 kids with burn with age less than 12 years old, the results show that male gender were the one that have more cases of burns with 26 cases reported that corresponds to 60.47% of the cases, compared to the female that has 17 cases with 39.53% of the cases. Conclusions: The burns are the main cause of mortality in kids less than 5 years old. The burns that affect 10% of the burned body surface suppose more hospital stay, risk of infection and surgical interventions.