Integrated Medical Emergency System work's results. Cienfuegos, from September 2021 to September 2022

• Main Authors: Lázaro Armando Águila Trujillo (Author), Mayelín Alomá Nohaya (Author), Mileidys Roldós Guzmán (Author), Nelson Fernández Quintana (Author), Zenaida Rodríguez Bernal (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Centro Provincial de Información de Ciencias Médicas. Cienfuegos, 2023-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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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