Mortality in upper digestive bleeding in the gastroenterology service in a hospital in central Peru 2018

Mortalidad en hemorragia digestiva alta en el servicio de gastroenterología en un hospital del centro del Perú 2018

Abstract

Background: Importance of making known the risk factors that increase mortality in patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding for their timely identification, this being a priority in specialized care. Objective:  To determine the relationship between the factors associated with mortality in upper gastrointestinal bleeding in the gastroenterology service. Method: An applied type of study was carried out, it was also non-experimental, cross-sectional, correlational. Place. Huancayo Regional Hospital. Participants. 100 medical records of the Hospital of 2018 of patients with this pathology. Chi2 statistical tests were used in favor of performing the data analysis. Results: The associated factors, significantly (p-value χ^2=0.00), with mortality in upper gastrointestinal bleeding in the gastroenterology service of a Regional Hospital in Huancayo, 2018, were age (over 50 years)., the presence of any (other than diabetes and hypertension) or more than one comorbidity, alcohol consumption, chronic use of NSAIDs, the presence of hematemesis, presence of melena, hematochezia, presence of ulcers and varicose veins. Conclusions: The associated factors were classified as risk factors; that is, suffering from one of them increases the probability of mortality from HDA.