Queixas referidas por pessoas atendidas em unidade de urgência/emergência e sua associação com prevalência, conhecimento, tratamento e controle da hipertensão arterial

• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, Camila Ferreira de
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/7311
• topic: Hipertensão; Pressão arterial; Serviço de atendimento de emergências; Sintomas; Hypertension; Arterial pressure; Emergency medical services; Symptoms; ENFERMAGEM::ENFERMAGEM DE SAUDE PUBLICA

INTRODUCTION: hypertensive patients associate symptoms to blood pressure numbers and that is what motivates them to search for emergency services. AIM: Analysing the association of the hypertensive patients’s complaints, the knowledge of previous diagnosis, its treatment and blood pressure control at 24 hours nonhospital public urgency services. METHODOLOGY: transversal study held at an emergency unit in a brazilian capital. Data collecte in 18 weeks, every single day and during all attendance shifts. Trauma and dengue cases, under 18 years old, mobile urgency services and those who didn’t go through risk classification were excluded. The blood pressure used for hypertensive patients identification was measured by the researcher. The hypertension prevalence was considered for every patient who presented blood pressure >=140/90mmHg or who mentioned anti-hypertensive medication regardless the blood pressure numbers; the knowledge was defined by the record of anti-hypertensive use; on the other hand, the control was considered the blood pressure numbers measured by the researcher (BP<140/90mmHg) according to those who used anti-hypertensive medication. The data related to referred complaints and patients severity were collected in the medical record and the anthropometric data related to life style were collecte straight from the patient and recorded in the study survey. The complaints were classified according to the Manchester system to group them and make statistical evaluations, also following the own study classification (type 1 and type 2); it was also analysed the time the patients complained about their blood pressure numbers. The severity was defined by the nurse on duty who followed the city prototocol (red = emergency, yellow = urgency, and green = no imminent risk of death). RESULTS: there was a higher proportion of females – 189 (62,0%), average age 39,4 (±15,7) years old, smoking rate - 35 (11,5%), alcoholism - 116 (38,0%), sedentarism - 247 (81,0%) and obesity - 56 (18,4%). Low severity cases - 257 (84,3%) were predominant; men - 24 (20,7%) and elderly people - 14 (37,8%) were classified in medium severity. The hypertension prevalence was 36,4%, the knowledge 62,2%, treatment 61,3% and the control rate over those who were under medical treatment was 47,1%. There were differences in those rates that women presented more knowledge (52; 72,0% - p=0,09) and treatment (50; 69,4% - p=0,016). The main hypertensive patients’s complaints were: abdominal pain, extremities problems, discomfort, falls and headaches. The hypertensive patients specially related their complaints to their blood pressure (43; 38,7% - p<0,001) and had classification of mediumseverity in a higher proportion (31; 27,9% - p<0,001). There was no relation among the complaints, knowledge, treatment and hypertension control on duty. CONCLUSIONS: The hypertension presented prevalence similar to general population; knowledge, treatment and control presented low rates. Hypertensive patients related their symptoms to their blood pressure and were classified with higher severity. The knowledge, treatment and hypertension control were not related to the blood pressure numbers.