Riesgo de caídas en pacientes adultos, ingresados en el área de cuidados críticos de un hospital de la ciudad de Guayaquil.

Abstract

The falls of patients during their hospitalization, is emerging as one of the adverse events that cause the most damage to the person directly, presenting sequelae and disabilities. The frequency of falls of patients in critical areas is what motivated us to carry out this research to reduce the rates of this event and we formulated the following Objective.- Determine the risk of falls in adult patients admitted to the critical care area of a hospital. hospital of the city of Guayaquil. Methodology.- It is a descriptive study, Quantitative Approach, retro-prospective and Prospective, cross-sectional, a sample of 100 critical patients was taken, the Morse scale was used as an instrument. Results.- 39% of the young adult patients between 19 and 30 years old 58%, male sex 45%, 1 and 2 months of hospitalization with 94% mestizo ethnicity 44%, in relation to pre-existing pathologies had arterial hypertension (septic shock). , according to the Morse scale: presented a history of previous falls, placement of raised handrails in 88% . Conclusions. - The risk of falls in patients was in young male adults, hospitalized for 2 months who did not place the handrails. Discussion. - The preventive measures were more focused on the actions of the health personnel in a group manner, however, in other studies they state that the best option is individual actions of the health personnel.