Browsing by Author "Brito Abril, Juan Carlos"

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Percepciones sobre el inicio de relaciones sexuales y consumo de alcohol y drogas en adolescentes escolarizados que no han iniciado vida sexual en el cantón Gualaceo 2016
(2018) Brito Abril, Juan Carlos; Sancho Agurto, Carlos Enrique; Vega Crespo, Bernardo José
BACKGROUND. Adolescence constitutes a period of life characterized by a special vulnerability in terms of sexuality, adolescents during their psychological development experience an often-unstable perception of their self-image, with a frequently negative evaluation, with tendency towards opposition, to impulsivity and the sensation of omnipotence (1,2). GENERAL OBJECTIVE. - To identify the perception of non-sexually active adolescents about the characteristics of the beginning of relationships and the consumption of alcohol and drugs in Canton Gualaceo. METHODOLOGY. - A quantitative descriptive study was carried out, with 1114 students aged 12 to 19 years of schools in Canton Gualaceo, who have not yet had sex. A survey of the CERCA project was applied. For the data processing SPSS 19 was used, with simple tables and descriptive statistics. RESULTS: The sample consisted of 1114 students, of whom 54.1% were women. 37.6% of adolescents report that it is difficult to have sex. 58.7% reported not feeling pressured to have sex and 58.3% reported having no sexual experiences. 73.7% would not have sex without being in love. 69.5% believe that it is not necessary to have sex to maintain a relationship. About 50% of students find it difficult or very difficult to resist smoking, using drugs or drinking alcohol. 53.9% do not consume liquor. CONCLUSIONS: students respondents have their own ethic sex, but still have little resistance habits toxic, as alcohol and tobacco, so they become a group vulnerable to follow up on your behavior future.
Treatment of post-surgical pain in the traumatology service in a second level hospital
(2019) Brito Abril, Juan Carlos
© 2019 Revista Latinoamericana de Hipertension. All rights reserved. Introduction: pain is the main reason for consultation after traumatology surgeries since they are usually longer procedures generating greater pain in the patient, reason for which the objective of the present analysis was to describe the treatment of post-surgical pain in the service of traumatology in a second level hospital. Materials and methods: this was a descriptive cross-sectional study in 101 individuals older than 12 years who presented a diagnosis of limb fractures admitted to the traumatology service of a second level hospital in the province of Cañar-Ecuador from January to July 2017. Describing the analgesic therapy used for the assessment of patients. Results: 101 cases were evaluated of which 67.3% were represented by the male sex and 32.7% by the female, 52.5% of the fractures were found in the upper limbs and 47.5% in the lower ones, the location most frequent was the radius and ulna, the predominant surgery was the open reduction of osteosynthesis with 60.4% of the cases, the most used analgesic treatment was ketorolac (93%), either as monotherapy 46.5% or associated to other drugs such as tramadol or metamizole 46.5%. The most used combination was ketorolac plus tramadol 45.5%. Of the total combined analgesic prescriptions, 49.5% use two analgesics as therapy. Tramadol was used in more than half of the 52.5% prescriptions. Conclusions: currently in the present health center the most frequent fractures were those of upper limbs and the predominant analgesic therapy was ketorolac and the combination most used was with tramadol.