Prevalencia de complicaciones post quirúrgicas de apendicitis agudas en pacientes pediátricos de 6 a 11 años en el Hospital General del norte de Guayaquil IESS los Ceibos; enero 2019 - enero 2021.

Abstract

Introduction: At the level of pediatric emergency care services, acute appendicitis is one of the pathologies that are most frequently observed as a reason for consultation and admission diagnosis, where it has even come to be considered as the pathology of abdominal origin of greater prevalence in pediatric care. Objective: To determine the prevalence of post-surgical complications of acute appendicitis in pediatric patients aged 6 to 11 years treated at the Hospital General del Norte IESS Los Ceibos; period 2019 – 2021. Methodology: For the development of the study, it was based on a retrospective, descriptive, cross-sectional and non-experimental cohort design. Results: : The results showed in a sample of 114 patients the most frequent sex was male with 64.9% of the cases, the most frequent socioeconomic level of the patients was upper middle class with 64.9% of the cases. It was found that 55.3% of the patients had a normal weight BMI, in terms of the type of intervention performed, it was shown that the patients operated on through lapathotomy presented the greatest number of complications with 60.5%. Of the complications, the most frequent was infection at the surgical site with 71.9% of the cases followed by abscess formation with 24.6% of the cases and that the hospital stay of the patients was 1-3 days in most cases with 52.9%. Conclusions: It was established that the surgical site infection together with the formation of abscesses were the most frequent post-surgical complications. Among the demographic characteristics, the average age of the patients was 8-9 years with a medium socioeconomic activity and that the type of surgical intervention most related to complications was laparotomy and the average hospital stay was 1-3 days.