Integrated Medical Emergency System work’s results. Cienfuegos, from September 2021 to September 2022
<p><strong>Foundation:</strong> the medical emergencies integrated system has the purpose of improving the care quality for patients receiving emergency medical services.<br /><strong>Objective:</strong> to describe the Integrated System of Medical Emergencies’ wo...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Spanish |
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Centro Provincial de Información de Ciencias Médicas. Cienfuegos
2023-10-01
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| Series: | Medisur |
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| Online Access: | http://medisur.sld.cu/index.php/medisur/article/view/5782 |
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| Summary: | <p><strong>Foundation:</strong> the medical emergencies integrated system has the purpose of improving the care quality for patients receiving emergency medical services.<br /><strong>Objective:</strong> to describe the Integrated System of Medical Emergencies’ work results.<br /><strong>Methods:</strong> descriptive, cross-sectional study, carried out between September 2021 and September 2022 in the Cienfuegos province, about the emergency system operation. The analyzed variables were: conditions and most frequent causes of transfer through the system; days and hours in which the services are requested.<br /><strong>Results:</strong> acute respiratory diseases were the ones that most caused transfers. Among the chronic non-communicable diseases, acute myocardial infarction, acute coronary syndrome and cerebrovascular disease were the diseases, in ascending order, that most caused requests for medical transfers; Tuesday the day with the most requests.<br /><strong>Conclusions:</strong> respiratory diseases cause a high number of requests for transfer to medical emergencies, followed by chronic non-communicable diseases.</p> |
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| ISSN: | 1727-897X |