Estudio para justificar la creación del Área de Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos Pediátricos en el Hospital General Isidro Ayora -Cantón Loja. Diseño de lineamientos gerenciales para la implementación de este servicio de salud, Período Enero -Julio 2021

Abstract

Abstract: The pediatric intensive care unit is an important health service for the multidisciplinary care of minors in critical condition, an area where life and death pass on a daily basis, where errors must be minimized, where love, professionalism and empathy must grow progressively so that the care of these children is the most effective and their life prognosis the most optimal.This investigative work has been carried out to determine the importance of having this health service at the Isidro Ayora General Hospital in the city of Loja, since it is considered a strategic point in the south of the country, due to the fact that children from neighboring provinces such as Zamora Chinchipe and the upper part of the province of El Oro. The continuous influx of these patients, their mismanagement, their poor transportation to other operative units with higher resolution and the frequency with which these children die, has been the motivation to sustain the vital importance of having this service and the guidelines to establish it.