Prevalencia de dolor abdominal no apendicular en pacientes pediátricos de 5-10 años que acuden a emergencias en el Hospital Naval de Guayaquil en el periodo 2019-2022.

Abstract

Introduction: Non-appendicular abdominal pain is one of the frequent reasons for consultation in the emergency area, which can have a rapid onset, intense in an average period of six hours and less than seven days, 40% of discharges may correspond to a non-specific abdominal pain with outpatient management. Objective: To estimate the prevalence of non-appendicular abdominal pain in pediatric patients aged 5 to 10 years attending the emergency department during the period 2019 - 2022 at Hospital Naval de Guayaquil. Methods: The present study has a quantitative, non-experimental, descriptive and retrospective approach, which was performed by reviewing a total of 199 medical records of pediatric patients admitted to the emergency area for a diagnosis of acute abdomen, abdominal pain located in the upper part, pelvic and perineal pain, pain located in other lower parts of the abdomen, and other unspecified abdominal pain, CIE-10 R10.0 R10.1 R10.2 R10.3 R10.4 Results: Regarding the prevalence of age, it can be seen that 53.7% corresponds to children between 5 and 7 years of age, that there is a higher frequency in the female sex with 57.29%, acute abdominal pain corresponded to 36.68% of the patients admitted and 24.12% to the percentage of patients discharged with unspecified functional bowel disorder, finally 74.37% had as resolution discharge and outpatient service. Conclusions: As a result of the above indicated that the most frequent pathology is unspecified functional bowel disorder in 24.12%, demonstrating the statistics obtained that the majority of patients diagnosed with abdominal pain attended in emergency, presented an outpatient resolution.