Estado nutricional de los pacientes oncológicos quirúrgicos y su relación con las complicaciones postoperatorias en el Instituto del Cáncer SOLCA Loja, período 2010-2014

Abstract

To carry out this work, it was raised to assess the nutritional status preoperative surgical oncology patients by reviewing medical records, in order to meet its relationship with the presence of postsurgical complications. The study is descriptive, retrospective and transversal. It was performed at the Hospital of SOLCA Loja, were considered the patients with abdominal and pelvic surgery that have been operated during the period 2010-2014 and that met the inclusion criteria. 125 patients of which the population is female with 71 patients (56.3%), which were mostly diagnosed stomach cancer (44.8%) were analyzed. Complications occurred in 19 patients representing 15.2%, of which the most common complications were seroma along with surgical wound infections. It was concluded that nutritional status is related to the presence of postoperative complications, risk factors for this are obesity (OR 2.02), moderate hypoalbuminemia (OR 1.22), and mild hypoalbuminemia (OR 1.23).