Caracterização de pessoas com doenças hemato-oncológicas atendidas em uma unidade de urgência e emergência

Abstract

Hemato-oncological diseases are classified as the second leading cause of death. The urgency and emergency unit are critical for providing complex and quality assistance. The objective of this study is to describe the demographic and clinical characteristics of people with hemato-oncological diseases treated at an urgency and emergency unit of a general hospital and to identify the reasons for seeking care. This is a descriptive, correlational quantitative study carried out between June and September of 2017 in the urgency and emergency unit of a general education hospital in the interior of the State. For the evaluation of the data, simple descriptive statistics were used. Sixty-five people were admitted to the emergency and emergency unit with hemato-oncological diseases, with a predominance of males (61.5%), with a mean age of 63.4 ± 1.7 years, of white breed (95.4%), from Santa Maria (58.5%), with incomplete elementary school (55.4%) and married (53.8%). The rate of people with cancer on end-of-life care was 75.6%, 55.4% on palliative care, and the majority, 52.3%, were discharged from the unit. According to the primary site of the cancer, the predominance of lymphomas and leukemias was observed (30.8%). As to the reason for the search, pain (41.5%) was the most prevalent symptom. It is evident in this study the knowledge of the characteristics of people with hemato-oncological diseases that seek the urgency and emergency unit makes it more specific to establish a quick and efficient treatment of the symptoms that these people present.