“Determinación de reacciones transfusionales inmediatas mediante la prueba de coombs en pacientes atendidos por el servicio de medicina transfusional del hospital general docente ambato”

Abstract

The present research project had the objective of determining the immediate transfusion reactions, through the Coombs test in patients attended by the Transfusion Medicine Service the General Teaching Hospital Ambato, in order to see the importance of the rational and conscious use of transfusions taking into account the complexity of adverse reactions that may occur. As for the methodology, the qualitative approach is specified, it analyzes the basic modality of the research, the level of research, the operationalization of the variables (V. Independent-V Dependent) and research techniques. We worked with 111 patients who were transfused from February 20 to April 20, 2017, added by inclusion and exclusion criteria. According to the results, there was a higher percentage of transfused women, which was 56% while men were 44%. Eight percent of the patients had immediate transfusion reactions, being mild and severe. Statistically, a significance of 0.045 was obtained, which was lower than 0.05. Therefore, it allowed me to reject the null hypothesis and thus to accept the alternative hypothesis. Therefore, it was concluded that the patients treated by the Transfusion Medicine Service presented Immediate Transfusion Reactions.