LA HIPOTERMIA COMO FACTOR PREDICTIVO DE MORBIMORTALIDAD EN PACIENTES CON TRAUMATISMO PENETRANTE POR ARMA DE FUEGO

Resumen

Objective: Determinate the relationship between hypothermia in penetrating trauma by gunshot and the clinical outcome of
patients admitted from January to October 2010 in emergency room of the Hospital General del Oeste “José Gregorio
Hernández” Los Magallanes de Catia, Caracas-Venezuela. Method: A prospective, descriptive and comparative study with a population of 109 patients and a sample of 65 patients, who we are going to relate multiple variables such as age, gender, evolution time, number and location of the holes, comorbidities, illicit drug use, smoking, alcohol, chest drainage, damage organs, use of transfusions, complications, re-interventions and hospital days with hypothermia and degrees of it to determine it as a predictor of morbimortality. Results: All variables related with hypothermia and their degrees
except the needed for chest drainage are involves like predictors of morbimortality. Conclusions: We demonstrated the hypothermia in the emergency room is a predictor of morbimortality for patients admitted in emergency area wirh penetrating trauma by gunshot. We suggest take this information to make a protocol for measuring prognosis of this type of patients in our hospital.