Prevalencia de celulitis en pacientes atendidos en el Hospital General del Norte de Guayaquil IESS los Ceibos en el periodo 2024.

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Cellulitis is an acute inflammation of the skin and subcutaneous tissues, usually of bacterial origin that usually manifests itself as a result of bacterial access through a wound or situation that produces alterations in the skin barrier, since fissures or cracks are created as an entry point. Objective: To estimate the prevalence of cellulitis in patients treated at the Hospital General del Norte de Guayaquil IESS Los Ceibos in the period 2024. METHODOLOGY: An observational, cross-sectional, retrospective, descriptive and analytical study was carried out by collecting information from the database provided by the study institution. The population consisted of 5639 patients diagnosed with cellulitis including: gender, age, lesion location and type of care. RESULTS: It was obtained that the prevalence of cellulitis was 1.25%, while the most frequent gender suffering from cellulitis was male with 61.9%, the most frequent location was cellulitis of other parts of the limbs with 39.2% and the type of care received by patients diagnosed with cellulitis was that 58% of the cases. CONCLUSION: It is concluded that the prevalence of cellulitis in the Hospital General del Norte de Guayaquil IESS Los Ceibos was 1.25%, also the male gender is the most frequent with the diagnosis of cellulitis, the most common location is in other parts of the limbs and that the same diagnosis is mostly found in the emergency room.