EVENTOS ADVERSOS EN USUARIOS QUIRÚRGICOS. HOSPITAL GENERAL PORTOVIEJO

Abstract

Adverse events represent an “unintended damage or complication caused by the treatment of a disease that results in disability, death or prolongation of hospital stay and is not due to the underlying disease or condition of the user, in the present investigation an analysis was performed of the epidemiological clinical behavior of adverse events in the surgical user during the years 2018, 2019 at the Portoviejo General Hospital. A descriptive, retrospective and cross-sectional investigation was carried out with 100% (62) surgical users who presented surgical adverse events during the perioperative period; the techniques used for data collection were a form based on the information from the General Hospital form 010 , modified from 059-206 of the Ministry of Public Health "Record of notifications of events related to user safety", the inductive-deductive, analytical-synthetic and historical-logical theoretical methods were taken into account, reaching the conclusions that the ages where the most adverse events were reported were between 31 to 64 years, the majority were male, adverse events prevailed over quasi-events and sentinel events; The highest index corresponds to infections associated with health care, these occurred during the stay in the hospitalization service and during hospitalization and it was possible to describe the consequence of adverse events where the largest number required hospitalization or hospitalization protocol, finding In addition, in equivalent percentages of final effects, the absence of injury, surgical or major medical intervention.