Emergency abdominal surgery in elderly people. Teaching Military Hospital “Mario Muñoz Monroy”

Authors

  • Libardo Castillo Lamas Hospital Militar Docente Dr."Mario Muñoz Monroy".Matanzas
  • Yolanda Peñate Rodríguez Hospital Militar Docente Dr. "Mario Muñoz Monroy".Matanzas
  • Gilberto L Galloso Cueto Hospital Militar Docente Dr."Mario Muñoz Monroy".Matanzas
  • Ariel Jordán Alonso Hospital Militar Docente Dr."Mario Muñoz Monroy".Matanzas
  • Norkis Alonso Domínguez Hospital Militar Docente Dr."Mario Muñoz Monroy".Matanzas
  • Javier Cabrera Reyes Hospital Militar Docente Dr."Mario Muñoz Monroy" Matanzas

Keywords:

ABDOMEN, ACUTE, INDICATORS OF MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY, RISK FACTORS, CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES, HERNIA, ABDOMINAL INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION, INFECTION, HUMANS, AGED

Abstract

In 2002 the United Nations Organization announced that at around the middle of the XXI century the elder population will surpass the young one. Our objective was determining the morbimorbitality of the emergency abdominal surgery in elderly people, carrying out a prospective descriptive study. We analyzed the sixty-years-old and more patients operated of emergency abdominal surgery in the period from January 2005 to January 2008. The predominant age group was the one between 70 and 79 years old, with 42 patients. The emergency abdominal surgery represented the 23.1 % of the total of the abdominal surgeries in elderly people; the main risk facts were diseases of cardiovascular origin: 35.2 %. 41.0 % had more than one risk fact. There was a predominance of patients classified as ASA II (57.5 %). The disease with the highest incidence was complicated abdominal hernias (42.2 %). The series global mortality was 20 %.

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Castillo Lamas L, Peñate Rodríguez Y, Galloso Cueto GL, Jordán Alonso A, Alonso Domínguez N, Cabrera Reyes J. Emergency abdominal surgery in elderly people. Teaching Military Hospital “Mario Muñoz Monroy”. Rev Méd Electrón [Internet]. 2014 Mar. 6 [cited 2025 Apr. 24];31(1):14-9. Available from: https://revmedicaelectronica.sld.cu/index.php/rme/article/view/578

Issue

Vol. 31 No. 1 (2009)

Section

Research article

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