Nursing Path of Nursing Care in Pediatric Patient with acute respiratory failure in the Pediatric Unit Emergency Area (in Spanish)

Abstract

Acute respiratory failure (ARF) is the pulmonary inability to comply with the gas exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide between the ambient air and the circulating blood1, it is accompanied by several signs and symptoms such as tachypnea, cyanosis, among others2, it is of sudden onset , and constitutes the cause of admission to emergency units, for this reason the World Health Organization (WHO) indicates that “hundreds of millions of people suffer the consequences of respiratory diseases every day3. In the Basic Indicators-Ecuador 2 012 of the Ministry of Public Health of Ecuador registers 4 122 deaths by ARI corresponding to the Province of Pichincha 8254, in the Hospital de Especialidades Carlos Andrade Marín (HECAM), the first cause of admission corresponds to pneumonia with 41.29% in the period January-September 2 018 (General Coordination of Planning and Statistics HECAM). The proposed route constitutes a tool that allows the nursing staff to carry out an effective evaluation of pediatric patients with acute respiratory failure, through an initial assessment, primary and secondary evaluation, with the purpose of avoiding complications during the management of pediatric patients with Acute respiratory failure in the Pediatric Emergency Area Unit (UPAE).