Complicaciones anestésicas en pacientes cascareadas con diagnóstico de preeclampsia/eclampsia en el Hospital Provincial General Docente Riobamba en el periodo enero 2013 – septiembre 2014.

Abstract

The study has a descriptive, transversal design performed with a universe of 200 patients with those characteristics, taking into account the clinical files of hospitalized patients in the obstetrical-gynecologic service. The aim of this research work was to determine the anesthetic complications shown in patients who underwent a cesarean process with preeclampsia eclampsia diagnosis assisted at the General Training Provincial Hospital Riobamba, in the period January 2013- September 2014, aiming to obtain real, reliable and updated information which will be used to implement programs of primary health assistance. From this group, it was found that the most common complications have to do with the postsurgical process, being headache the most common; the type of anesthesia mostly used in cesarean was the spinal anesthesia. It was also found that comorbidity does not represent a relevant element for the appearance of complications; moreover it was observed that most of the patients in the study are under 20. These findings allow determining the most frequent complications in relation to other factors associated in the study group, which provide useful data to take preventive actions an so, to lower the morbimortality of the patients.