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- Title
FATORES QUE CONTRIBUEM PARA REINTERNAÇÃO DE PACIENTES SUBMETIDOS A CIRURGIA CARDÍACA.
- Authors
Liberato Araújo Lopes, Ângela Maria; Brandão Braga, Yandra Kelline; de Azevedo Ponte Marques, Keila Maria; Canafístula de Souza, Francisco Douglas; Fernandes Cardoso, Maria Aparecida
- Abstract
Objective: To describe the factors that contribute to the readmission of patients undergoing cardiac surgery. Methods: This is an exploratory and descriptive research conducted from March to July 2019 at the Heart Hospital with 22 patients admitted with readmission after cardiac surgery. Research approved by CEP with opinion No. 3.147.170. Results: The patients were male 81.82% (18), aged 70 to 95 years old 40.91% (09). Most had systemic arterial hypertension 90.90% (20), were smokers 72.73% (16), alcoholics 63.64% (14) and dyslipidemic 72.73% (16). Based on the clinical history of the patients, most of them showed myocardial revascularization surgery 81.82% (18). Conclusion: Among the factors that contributed to the readmission of patients undergoing cardiac surgery were: advanced age, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, smoking, alcoholism and dyslipidemia, was associated with new hospitalization after surgery and the existence of postoperative illness.
- Subjects
PORTUGAL; CARDIAC surgery; RESEARCH; HOSPITALS; HYPERTENSION; SUBSTANCE abuse; PSYCHOLOGY of cardiac patients; RESEARCH methodology; AGE distribution; PATIENT readmissions; COMORBIDITY
- Publication
Enfermagem em Foco, 2020, Vol 11, Issue 5, p104
- ISSN
2177-4285
- Publication type
Article