EL ISS COMO ESCALA PRONOSTICA DE MORTALIDAD EN TRAUMA GERIÁTRICO DE PACIENTES DEL HOSPITAL GENERAL BALBUENA DURANTE EL PERÍODO 2006-2009

Abstract

The geriatric trauma involves a group that needed proper care and assessment of injuries, because in them there is a high mortality rate in the first place to age and this coupled with comorbidities and polypharmacy, which are poor prognostic factors in these patients. We performed a clinical-epidemiological, observational, cross sectional and retrospective Balbuena General Hospital in geriatric patients with trauma to which ISS scale was applied to assess their effectiveness in these patients as predicted level of mortality. It was found that there is a 5.7% mortality of 488 patients admitted to the emergency department during the period 2006 to 2009, among which the most affected is the male, 75%, with injury TCE, 60% of total 24.4%, but not in women being those who have more limb trauma injury. The scale applied ISS showed that with a value of 9 the mortality is 16%, and from this increase, which differs from the scale which mentioned that the mortality is 10% with ISS> 16 which is considered a serious life-threatening trauma.