Objective: To investigate associations between preoperative anxiety and depression symptoms and postoperative complications and the sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of patients undergoing valve repair surgery. Method: Observational, exploratory and prospective study. The consecutive non-probabilistic sample consisted of patients undergoing their first valve repair surgery. Data were collected from September 2013 to September 2015, in a university hospital in the interior of São Paulo, Brazil. Symptoms were assessed using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale and analyzed using Mann-Whitney and Spearman correlation; alpha was established at 5%. Results: Among the 70 participants, depressive symptoms were more frequent among women (p=0.042) and among patients experiencing postoperative agitation (p=0.039) Conclusion: In this study, depressive symptoms were associated with being a woman and postoperative agitation; the same was not true in regard to anxiety symptoms.
Objetivo: classificar os pacientes segundo o risco de desenvolvimento de mediastinite no pós-operatório de cirurgia de revascularização do miocárdio. Método: estudo observacional, transversal, realizado na Unidade de Terapia Intensiva Pós-Operatória de um hospital universitário no interior paulista. Amostra consecutiva e não probabilística foi constituída por pacientes adultos, submetidos à revascularização do miocárdio. A coleta de dados foi realizada na alta da Terapia Intensiva, utilizando o Escore de Risco Multivariável para Mediastinite. Para a obtenção do escore foram realizadas análises estatística descritivas. Resultados: Participaram do estudo 50 pacientes, 68% do sexo masculino, com média de idade de 62,7 anos. Nenhum paciente foi reoperado ou apresentava doença pulmonar obstrutiva crônica; 26,0% eram obesos; 12,0% apresentaram angina instável e 4,0% foram politransfundidos no pós-operatório. Segundo o escore, 58,0% apresentaram baixo e 42,0% médio risco de desenvolvimento de mediastinite. Conclusão: A maior parte dos pacientes apresentava baixo risco de desenvolvimento de mediastinite.
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