Management of hyperglycemia in a first level care hospital


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https://doi.org/10.22517/25395203.24651

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Pharmacoepidemiology, Emergency Treatment, Diabetes Mellitus, Hyperglycemia

Abstract

Objective: Describe the treatment in a first-level hospital of patients who consulted the emergency department for hyperglycemia, the previous management and its probable relationship with new hyperglycemia.

 

Materials and methods: Observational cross-sectional study with a one-year follow-up in patients over 18 years of age with hyperglycemia who consulted in the emergency department between September-2016 and August-2017. The medical records were reviewed and sociodemographic, clinical, and pharmacological variables were established. Descriptive statistics, X2 and binary logistic regression models (P <0.05) were used.

Results: There were 86 patients with hyperglycemia (mean age 52.1 ± 14.93 years). It was found that in 58.1% of cases there was a previous diagnosis of diabetes mellitus; 87.2% were treated with crystalline insulin and 47.0% of the patients consulted again for a hyperglycemic crisis in the six months after discharge.

Conclusion: There is a high proportion of patients with non-ketonic, non-hyperosmolar hyperglycemia who were unaware of having diabetes mellitus. In addition, almost half of the patients consult again for a hyperglycemic attack in the following six months after discharge.

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Author Biographies

Juan Daniel Castrillon Spitia, Md., Institución Universitaria Visión de las Américas

Médico.

Especialista en epidemiologia.

Facultad de Medicina, Institución Universitaria Visión de las Américas.

Grupo de Investigación Biomedicina, Pereira, Colombia.

Juliana Londoño Montes, Md., Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira

Médica.

Residente de pediatría

Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira

Juliana Jaramillo Patiño, Md., Institución Universitaria Visión de las Américas

Médica

Hospital Universitario San Jorge, Pereira

Carolina Garrido Hernández, Md., Institución Universitaria Visión de las Américas

Médica.

Clínica Renal R.C.S. (Renal Care Services), Pereira, Colombia.

Diana Carolina Bermúdez Cardona, Md., Institución Universitaria Visión de las Américas

Médica.

Clínica Comfamiliar, Pereira

Jorge Enrique Machado Alba, Md. M.Sc. PhD, Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira

Médico,

MSc. en Farmacoepidemiología.

PhD en farmacología.

Profesor titular, Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira

Grupo de Investigación en Farmacoepidemiologia y Farmacovigilancia.

Audifarma SA. Pereira, Colombia

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2021-06-13

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Castrillon Spitia, J. D., Londoño Montes, J., Jaramillo Patiño, J., Garrido Hernández, C., Bermúdez Cardona, D. C., & Machado Alba, J. E. (2021). Management of hyperglycemia in a first level care hospital. Revista Médica De Risaralda, 27(1). https://doi.org/10.22517/25395203.24651

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