CAUSAS DE EPISTAXIS Y TRATAMIENTOS EN USUARIOS QUE ASISTEN A LA CONSULTA EXTERNA Y LA EMERGENCIA DEL HOSPITAL “DR. VERDI CEVALLOS BALDA” DE PORTOVIEJO DE JUNIO A NOVIEMBRE DEL 2006

Abstract

By means of this study it was determined which ones they are the most common causes he gives the nasal bleeder in the population that goes to the regional hospital he gives Portoviejo and also that type gives treatment it is used with more frequency. Also it could describe himself the general characteristics he/she gives the population object he gives study, to identify the most frequent place gives origin he gives the bleeder in the nasal grave and their treatment. The type gives utilized study for this investigation it was the descriptive one prospective he/she gives longitudinal section having as universe to all the patients assisted by epistaxis in the surface area he gives emergency and in the external consultation he gives the hospital Dr. Verdi Cevallos Balda, being the population gives study a total he/she gives 87 patients. The source of information was the revision he/she gives clinical files filed in the department he/she gives statistical he gives this hospital and it stops its gathering a form it was used he/she gives questions. Through this investigation you could determine that the most affected population is the scholars, adolescents and adults that surround the 50 years being more frequently caused by local factors being located the local traumatism in the first place and in second place the idiopathic epistaxis. As for the systemic factors the predominant cause was the high blood pressure. It was also perceived that the few complications and relapses registered in the portfolios give the patients it was because it was failed in the pursuit he/she gives the patients and give the falencias that exist as for the elaboration he gives clinical histories and evolutions so much on the part of the interns as he/she gives the doctors.