Prevalencia de dengue y caracterización epidemiológica en los pacientes ingresados en el hospital general Liborio Panchana Sotomayor; enero 2015 a enero 2016.

Abstract

Introduction: Alarm Signs Dengue, is one of the most frequent motives of hospitalary admission in Emergency Room all over public hospitals in Latin America and one of the biggest problems to solve in public healthcare Material and Methods: It is a nonexperimental, descriptive and retrospective study realized in 177 patients evolved by CIE 10 code assigned to Dengue Fever, between January 2015 and January 2016. Results: Among 177 patients with Dengue Fever diagnosis, 22% of them had it with Alarm Signs. A bigger percentage of cases were in patients younger than 15 years (16,15%) and the dominant gender was male, presenting around 59% of all the cases with alarm signs (p=0,014). A relationship between abdominal pain and the development of Dengue with alarm signs was established (p= <0,0001) Conclusions: Alarm Signs Dengue in the time this study was developed was of 22%, with most of these cases being in male patients. Also, it was determined that the age group that is more likely to develop Alarm Sign Dengue are the younger than 15 years, as shown in this study. Also, it was observed that the most frequent evolving time of this disease was between 0-5 days. Both headache and abdominal pain were present in 64% of cases but only abdominal pain had a direct relationship with Alarm Sign Dengue.