Comportamiento de la monitorizacion de la presion intraabdominal en la unidad de cuidados intensivos adultos del Hospital General Regional no.1 Vicente Guerrero

Abstract

The measurement of intra-abdominal pressure through a bladder catheter, is an invasive monitoring that has been carried out in different hospitals, as an objective parameter that allows to delect the elevation of the referred pressure; this simple, inexpensive procedure, available to any hospital and very useful, can be performed routinely in patients at risk of developing abdominal compartment syndrome or as a method of routine monitoring in critically ill patients. The objective of this research was to identify the behavior of the variables of intra-abdominal pressure by the transvesical method in patients with abdominal condition in the intensive care unit of the Hospital General Regional No.1 Vicente Guerrero of the Mexican Institute of Social Security.