Surgery postponement in patients with ophthalmic affections
Keywords:
OFTALMOLOGÍA, PREOPERATIVE PERIOD, CATARACTAbstract
Background: preoperative assessment is the study protocol for determining the physical condition and risk of the patient prior to surgery. Every day patients are postponed in the preoperative anesthesiology consultation.
Objective: to identify the main causes of postponement in patients with ophthalmologic surgical conditions treated at the Ophthalmological Center of “Dr. Ernesto Guevara de la Serna” teaching General Hospital in Las Tunas from January to December, 2015.
Methods: a retrospective, longitudinal and descriptive study was carried out in the 968 cases of patients with ophthalmologic surgical conditions treated in the place and time period mentioned before, and whose operations were postponed. The clinical and epidemiological variables were analyzed and assessed according to descriptive statistics and expressed in percentages.
Results: the predominant age group was that of 61 years and older, with 484 patients (50 %); females prevailed, with 660 female patients (68,2 %). Most of the patients came from the cataract consultation, with 657 cases (67,9 %). March and April were the months with the highest quantity of postponed patients. The systemic disease that showed the highest percentage (56 %) was the uncompensated hypertension.
Conclusions: variables about the postponement of ophthalmologic operations were characterized. The months with the highest frequency of postponement were March and April.
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