Prescripción de antibióticos en apendicitis aguda en área de cirugía Hospital José Carrasco Arteaga. Año 2017

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: The incorrect and inadequate use of antibiotics these have been a growing problem in recent years, because they endanger the lives of millions of patients each year, and contribute to the increase in resistance to them. GENERAL OBJECTIVE: to determine the prescription characteristics of antibiotics in appendicitis in the area of surgery of the Hospital Jose Carrasco year 2017 MATERIAL AND METHODS: Descriptive with a sample of 496 patients, who were admitted to the surgery in the 2017 period, of which by means of a form and access to the database was obtained information on the prescription characteristics in acute appendicitis. The results were grouped, tabulated with the program SPSS version 25 and analyzed by percentages, frequencies and measures of central tendency. RESULTS: The men with 53% of cases, the average age was 38.5 years. There was a prophylaxis compliance of 85.9%, with Ampicillin plus Sulbactam being the most used with 49,2%, followed by Ciprofloxacin plus metronidazole (17.4%) and Ceftriaxone plus metronidazole (9.2%). an average of 5.09 days of hospital stay in complicated appendicitis, and of 1.63 days in uncomplicated, with respect to time of administration of antibiotics the average was 6.44 days in complicated appendicitis, and 1.8 days in uncomplicated appendicitis. CONCLUSIONS: the prescription of antibiotics in appendectomized patients of the Jose Carrrasco Arteaga hospital is in accordance whit the current guidelines and protocols established worldwide.