Evaluación clínico-epidemiológica de los pacientes con neumonía nosocomial, atendidos en el Hospital General Isidro Ayora de Loja, durante enero a diciembre 2016

Abstract

Abstract: Nosocomial pneumonia (NN) is the leading cause of death from nosocomial infections. The objective of the present work was to identify the clinical-epidemiological characteristics and the diagnostic-therapeutic management of the patients and to relate these characteristics to each other. Thirty-six patients diagnosed with nosocomial pneumonia treated in the general hospitalization of the Hospital General Isidro Ayora de Loja during the period January to December 2016 were included, by collecting data from the medical records in an observation form. It was obtained that, of the 36 patients, the male sex (55%) predominated, with age greater than or equal to 60 years (73%), among the most frequent comorbidity, Arterial Hypertension was found in 36%. Within clinical characteristics, all presented with cough, 95% presented a thermal increase, 55% presented a decrease in oxygenation, the totality presented leukocytosis. The most frequent NN presentation time was late onset at 56%. 94% reached a treatment duration of 7 to 14 days, the most used antibiotics were the beta-lactam / beta-lactamase inhibitor (72%)