VALORACIÓN PROSPECTIVA DE LOS CRITERIOS DE CURB-65 EN LOS PACIENTES CON NEUMONÍA ADQUIRIDA EN LA COMUNIDAD, ATENDIDOS EN EL ÁREA DE EMERGENCIA DEL HOSPITAL PROVINCIAL VERDI CEVALLOS BALDA, EN EL PERIODO DE MAYO A OCTUBRE DEL 2011

Abstract

In the Provincial Hospital “Dr. Verdi CevallosBalda” of Portoviejo go a considerable number of patients with community-acquired pneumonia, for which they were tracked hospitalized patients according to CURB-65 scale, treatment received and length of hospital stay and readmissions, this was the reason for proposing this work whose main objective was the implementation of the CURB-65 criteria in patients admitted with diagnosis NAC. Over 12 years. We investigated variables such as age, sex, origin, education, systemic disorders Respiratory disorders, states of consciousness, levels of urea, respiratory rate, systolic blood pressure and others, for it was performed and Observational prospective study we allowed us to have accurate data on the subject. Was used as a study area Emergency of Hospital Verdi CevallosBalda, was used to investigate a universe of 106 patients with possible diagnosis of NAC 3,7% which is excluded for not meeting clinical criteria and 16% exclusion criteria, leaving a sample of 80% patients who were administered the CURB65, of these 85% patients were hospitalized, 95,8 of them CURB65 greater than or equal to 2 and 3 patients with a less than 2 CURB65 and 15% patients treated as outpatients of which 100% of these met a CURB65 less than one.