When a VIP patient or a patient who has an economic, social or family relationship with the doctors who treat them, arrive to the ER there is a subtle risk of making unorthodox decisions, Also, wasting resources, breaking standards of care and in the lowest scenario causing unintended complications to the patient. Case Report: We report a 55-year-old patient related to a physician. She was admitted to the emergency room due to abdominal pain, on admission was suspected appendicitis versus abdominal mass, an abdominal CT scan with contrast was performed and she developed an allergic reaction due to the contrast, she required intubation that was complicated with selective intubation and a massive atelectasis. After removal the orotracheal tube she presented fentanyl toxicity and finally after discharge developed post-traumatic stress. Conclusion: in LA (Latin America) this syndrome is an entity that exists, has been little described and in our knowledge has never been quantified. Patients are victims of multiple non-malicious complications, which originate in the desire of their health team trying to provide a closer, faster and more personalized attention outside of the guidelines of treatment. Ethical principles and prevention should be strengthened through an adequate clinical history and a detailed physical examination to avoid this event.
Introducción. Los consultantes crónicos (CC) aumentan el sobrecupo y sobreuso en los servicios de emergencias (SE), y no existen reglas estándar para identificarlos. Nosotros identificamos factores de riesgo (FR) y construimos un puntaje para discriminar CC en los SE (Puntaje FACCE). Metodología. Con un diseño de Casos[≥10_atenciones/año] y Controles[hospitalarios] seleccionados aleatoriamente de una base de datos con más de 100.000 atenciones/año, se recogieron datos sociodemográficos y clínicos de pacientes atendidos en tres SE de una clínica privada de Bucaramanga-Santander. Se aplicó un modelo de regresión logística (MRL) para identificar FR asociados a CC (ORa;IC95%). Con los z-score de cada FR[MRL] se construyó el puntaje FACCE. Resultados. Fueron seleccionados 200 casos[CC] y 207 controles, los CC tenían mayor edad (42 años; OR:1.02[1.01-1.03]) y predominantemente, estaban casados o en unión libre [C/UL], tenían planes de atención domiciliaria y fueron hospitalizados (valorP:<0.05). Los FR asociados a CC fueron estado civil C/UL[2.06;1.37-3.11], comorbilidad[2.40;1.52-3.79], enfermedad general no traumática[4.10;2.18-7.71], antecedente de tabaquismo[4.17;1.14-15.1] y las enfermedades primarias: neoplasia[4.32;1.41-13.1], epilepsia[10.6;1.28-87.7], enfermedad mental[3.23;1.46-7.16] y renal crónica[8.18;1.02-65.7]. La mediana[p25-p75] del puntaje FACCE [13.4;9.6-16.8] fue mayor en Casos[16.0;13.0-17.6] Vs Controles[12.6;9.14-13.9] (∆ 3.79[IC95%, 3.26-4.29]) (AUC: 0.78; OR: 1.23;1.14-1.32; valorP:<0.001). Discusión. Identificamos FR sociodemográficos y clínicos asociados a CC, que conjuntamente[puntaje_FACCE] demostraron utilidad para discriminarlos en los SE. Nuevas investigaciones permitirán una validación externa del FACCE, así como una mejoría en las capacidades operativas y calibración para discriminar CC de los SE.
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