Características clínicas y epidemiológicas de los pacientes con sepsis de la unidad de terapia intensiva adultos del Hospital Regional de Coronel Oviedo, Paraguay Clinical and epidemiological characteristics of patients with sepsis in the adult intensive care unit of the Hospital Regional de Coronel Oviedo, Paraguay a
Cómo referenciar este artículo/ How to reference this article:Ramírez-Gómez T, Gómez-Riveros ML, Escobar-Salinas JS. Características de las mujeres diabéticas con síntomas urinarios en el Hospital Nacional de Itauguá. Rev. cient. cienc. salud 2020; 2(2):51-59.
R E S U M E NIntroducción: El diabético tiene mayor susceptibilidad a presentar infecciones bacterianas, virales y fúngicas, debido a alteraciones en sus mecanismos de defensa, generalmente las infecciones son más graves. Objetivo: Determinar las características clínicas de las mujeres diabéticas con síntomas urinarios internadas en el Dpto. de Medicina Interna del Hospital Nacional de Itauguá año 2018 y 2019. Metodología: Se realizó un estudio observacional, descriptivo de corte transversal donde se incluyeron a 152 pacientes internadas en el servicio de clínica médica del Hospital Nacional de Itauguá. Resultados: Ingresaron al estudio 152 pacientes con una edad promedio fue de 61 años y un rango de entre 17 a 92 años de edad. El 11,84% presentó síntomas urinarios y en el 77,78% de las pacientes se pudo lograr aislar el germen causante, aislándose E. coli en el 83,33% de las muestras. Conclusión: La frecuencia de infección urinaria fue de 9,21 %. Se evidencio un alto nivel de mal control metabólico en la población estudiada, la mayoría de los casos de infección urinarias fueron en pacientes que presentaban un mal control metabólico.
Respecting patients’ intimacy and confidentiality can be a challenge in the neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) designed according to traditional standards (e.g. a single big room with a number of cots and incubators located close one to another). Concerned about this topic, two members of the team designed a study to check the quality of the confidentiality in the NICU area, and identify opportunities for improvement. This is an observational study performed for a period of one month. The observed team was not aware of being observed. During observation time, a total of 147 hours, 25 confidentiality violation situations were encountered. Twelve (48%) were comments, spoken with a loud voice, about the patients in the NICU area or in adjacent areas, 24% (6/25) were related to the privacy issues due to leaving medical documentation or computer screens available for anybody to see or informing parents in a way that could be heard by parents of other babies, 12% (3/25) were phone conversations about patients in a loud voice, 4% (1/25) were answering questions to parents or relatives about other babies. The medical and personal information of the patients in the NICU is often exposed and shared with parents of other patients and non-related professionals. The architectural design of the traditional NICUs, some socio-cultural issues in South European countries, and the difficulties in changing attitudes are the critical points to focus on to start a quality educational project to protect the right to intimacy and confidentiality of vulnerable children and parents admitted to the NICUs.
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