Características clínicas y demográficas del accidente ofídico, Hospital General Puyo, año 2018

Abstract

The Ophidic accident is a dermal lesion caused by the snake bite, in which it inoculates its venom producing damage at the tissue level and variable systematic alterations, being a pathology almost forgotten, so the following investigation's objective to determine the clinical and demographic characteristics of the ophidic accidents treated at the Hospital General Puyo during 2018. It was used a transversal descriptive study of all the cases of patients (n = 88) who were hospitalized with the ICD 10 T630 diagnosis was carried out Venom of Serpent, in the Hospital General Puyo in the period January - December 2018. For its execution, a database was built on the Google forms platform, whose information was obtained from the clinical histories and epidemiological files of the Department of Epidemiology of the Hospital General Puyo, tabulation and statistical analysis was carried out the program in the Epi Info TM version 7.2. Obtaining the following results: During the year 2018, 88 cases of ophidic accident were attended, 68% being more frequent in the male sex, with a greater incidence in the age between 20 and 49 years, 52.3% finding that 77.3% of the cases occurred in rural areas, having as peaks in the months of March and August. Being the main implied in the gender of the snake Bothrops 98.9%, classifying itself as moderate in 51%. Of the total cases, 27 presented some complication, the most frequent were abscesses. Concluding that in the Hospital General Puyo there are more than 80% of the cases reported in Pastaza, coming from rural areas. Therefore it is recommended to victims of the ophidian accident to go as soon as possible to a health unit so that doses of antivenom can be administered and thus reduce the possibility of complications.