Frecuencia y caracterización del trauma de tórax en el Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso y Hospital José Carrasco Arteaga. periodo 2018.

Abstract

Background: Chest trauma is a challenging pathology because there is a vital organ involvement, with the possibility of multiorgan failure and death. Objective: to determine the frequency and severity of chest trauma in patients treated at the Vicente Corral Moscoso and José Carrasco Arteaga Hospital, 2018 period. Materials and methods: this is a cross-sectional descriptive study. The sample consisted of 248 patients with chest trauma who met the inclusion criteria. Data were collected using a form designed by the author. The descriptive statistics were with the measures of centralization (mean) and dispersion (DS) for quantitative variables, and for qualitative ones with frequency and percentage values. The information was tabulated in the statistical software SPSS v. fifteen. Results: the frequency of chest trauma was 17.2%, average age 42.03 years (± SD 18.74), 60% male; in addition, 30% had thoracoabdominal trauma; the etiology due to high altitude (26.2%), 80% closed trauma, and 50% of them direct. In open traumas, the lesion was a white weapon (20%). The complications were: hemothorax (85.1%), pneumothorax heme (6.5%), in 60% of cases there was surgical management, and of these, the most frequent intervention was pleural drainage; the severity level was mild (60%). Conclusions: the chest trauma was more in the masculine sex, of etiology by height fall, and the most common complication hemothorax, and mild severity