Categorización de las urgencias gineco-obstétricas en un hospital público de Chile

Abstract

Introduction: the urgent care network is fundamental in the health of any country. In Chile, the emergency services are periodically saturated with users with mild pathologies; the same occurs in gynecological-obstetric emergency care (UGO) in more complex centers. Objective: to describe the categorization of gynecological-obstetric emergency consultations in a public hospital in Chile, attended in 2018. Methodology: descriptive and cross-sectional study; covered 3,077 queries of anonymized statistical data. Results: of the UGO, 58.3% were obstetric consultations, 36.9% gynecological and 4.8% neonatological; 96% were women; 80.3% were adults and 11.6% adolescents; 92.5% were from Penco; the month most consulted was may with 292 visits and 71.5% of the consultations were during daytime hours. The main reasons for obstetric and gynecological consultation were pain and genital bleeding; in neonatal emergencies, jaundice was the main reason for consultation. The most repeated diagnosis in obstetric consultations was the supervision of normal pregnancy; in gynecological cases, it was abdominal-pelvic pain and in neonatological consultations, jaundice; there was 91.1% local resolution. 0.1% of the UGO were categorized as c1 and 0.3% as c2, the vast majority being low complexity queries. Conclusions: there is a large percentage of low complexity consultations that overload the emergency service, affecting the quality of hospital care.