“Incidencia de complicaciones postquirúrgicas mas frecuentes en los pacientes apendicectomizados en el área de cirugía del hospital provincial docente ambato del periodo enero 2012 –junio 2012”

Abstract

The research aimed to determine the incidence of postoperative complications in patients appendectomy, was a study of documentary, retrospective, as it analyzed the medical records, operative reports and patient records of patients in the area of General Surgery January to June 2012 Provincial Teaching Hospital Ambato, extracted the necessary information from all patients whose records met the inclusion and exclusion criteria. This research consists of 174 patients, which were obtained as statistical data: incidence of postoperative complications in 10.2% (18 patients), complications that occurred among these were early order of frequency were wound infection 55 , 5%, 11.1% abdominal abscess, and finally other complications such as pneumonia and ileus was found in 33.3%, there was a predominance in females, with a ratio of 1.12 women for every man, the age of the patients ranged from 16 to 97 years, with a mean of 34.34 years among older adults (AM) shows higher complication rate 2.3% (4 of 13 patients complications) By relating the histopathological grade with complications showed that grades 1 and 2 showed no increased complications, accounting for 5.6% of the equivalent of one of 18 cases, whereas the grade 3, were 6 of 18 which 100% were infectious after appendectomy and in grade 4 was shown in 11 patients (61.1%), and complications of all types, with the highest percentage, was presented with wound infections 36.4% (4 cases), followed by intra-abdominal abscess and two cases of pneumonia.