Pressure ulcers in the operating room. Intraoperative incidence in patients undergoing cardiac surgery
Dolores Gómez Ginés, Manuel Rodríguez Palma, Francisco García Pavón, Rosendo Almozara Molle, Joan Enric Torra i Bou

SUMMARY

Introduction and aim: The existence of various risk factors make patients Cardiac Surgery (CICA) to be vulnerable to the occurrence of pressure ulcers (PU). In 177 the absence of studies in this regard is to study the epidemiology and the influence of risk factors in the emergence of UPP in the stages of pre-and intraoperative for this group of patients. Methods: Non-experimental design, descriptive longitudinal prospective.

Results: Of the 100 patients studied, 10 patients had PU upon arrival operating room (10%), all of stage I. In the intraoperative period 18 patients developed a total of 22 PU (18% incidence) of stage I and II, with location sacral.

Conclusions: There are a 10% prevalence of PU in the preoperative period, we found no statistically significant differences with respect to variables such as age, weight, days before admission, blood pressure and score Euroscore between patients with and without them PU. The incidence of intraoperative PU is 18%, to average between 7% and 27.2% in other studies. There is no relationship between the appearance of PU and duration of surgery, using cardiopulmonary bypass time, blood pressure or application of intraoperative hypothermia.

KEY WORDS

   Pressure ulcers (PU), surgical patients, cardiac surgery, intraoperative period, risk factors, operating Room.

Vol. 23 nº1-2012