Prevalencia de virus sincitial respiratorio y complicaciones clínicas en pacientes menores de 3 años. Pediatría, Hospital José Carrasco Arteaga. Cuenca. Ecuador. 2016 – 2017

Abstract

BACKGROUND. Respiratory Syncytial Virus worldwide is the most common virus for lower respiratory tract infections in children under 3 years of age, presenting from mild symptoms to fatal complications, its identification was made by nasal aspirate chromatography. OVERALL OBJECTIVE. To determine the prevalence of respiratory syncytial virus infection and clinical complications in patients under 3 years of age admitted to the Pediatric Area of the José Carrasco Arteaga Hospital in the city of Cuenca, Ecuador. 2016 - 2017.

METHODOLOGY.A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out, the study population was the total of patients under 3 years hospitalized for respiratory causes in the Pediatric area of the José Carrasco Arteaga Hospital, the diagnosis of Respiratory Syncytial Virus was made by chromatography. The data were collected from the clinical records of the AS400 system and recorded in a form designed by the author, for the statistical analysis the SPSS program was used, the qualitative variables are presented in the form of frequencies, percentages and the quantitative variables by trend measures. central as average. RESULTS. The prevalence of RSV was 53.7%, with bronchiolitis being the most common presentation (61.7%), it was observed that 28.7% of patients did not suffer complications while 28.7% presented bacterial superinfection, mortality it was 1.2%. CONCLUSIONS: The prevalence of RSV is high, bronchiolitis was the main presentation of the virus, bacterial superinfection the most frequent complication, with low mortality.