Perfil dos pacientes atendidos em crise hipertensiva em um serviço de urgência de Fortaleza

• Autor(a) principal: Lima, Rhanna Emanuela Fontenele
• Data de Publicação: 2005
• Outros Autores: Sousa, Ana Cristina Veras de, Pinto, Mara Roberta Soares, Araújo, Thelma Leite de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)
• Texto Completo: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/13539
• topic: Hipertensão; Socorro de Urgência

The main objective of this paper was to analyze, from emergency registers, the profile of patients undergoing hypertensive attack between January and February of 2002 in a municipal hospital in Fortaleza, investigating the characteristics of gender, age group, the working shifts (morning, afternoon, and night) with most frequent patients’ attendance in the hospital, and the medicines prescribed during the attack. The results demonstrate an elevated demand on clinic attendance (5.0%) and a homogeneous result on the three hospital working shifts. Patients within the age range of 20 to 90 were affected, especially women (64.4%), independent of age group. The medication taken by most patients were angiotensinconverting enzyme inhibitors (62.3%) and diuretics (57.1%).