Prevalencia de complicaciones en pacientes sometidos a cateterismo cardíaco en la Clínica Santa Inés S.A, durante el periodo enero 2012 - diciembre 2017. Cuenca 2018.

Background: Cardiac catheterization is a basic diagnostic and therapeutic procedure in cardiological activity, considered a gold test. The latest data published by the Section of Hemodynamics and Interventional Cardiology of the Spanish Society of Cardiology show a remarkable increase in the global number of catheterizations. General Objective: To determine the prevalence of complications in patients undergoing cardiac catheterization in the Santa Inés S.A clinic, during the period January 2012- December 2017. Cuenca 2018. Methodology: A cross-sectional descriptive retrospective study was carried out in the clinic "Santa Inés SA", the clinical histories of patients attended in the department of hemodynamics during the period January 2012- December 2017 were reviewed. The SPSS version 15.0 program was used where they will process and analyze the obtained data. Results: It was determined that 43.7% of the patients undergoing cardiac catheterization were older adults and 62.7 were men; The prevalence of complications in patients undergoing cardiac catheterization in the Santa Inés S.A clinic, during the period January 2012- December 2017 was 0,8. Conclusion: Complications were analyzed in patients undergoing cardiac catheterization, this complication was bigger in old men’s, coronary diseases and diagnostics catheterization. All case was in femoral access.