Mortality due to bronchopneumonia in the older adult of General Teaching Hospital "Dr. Agostinho Neto"

Abstract

A descriptive retrospective study was carried out with the purpose of proposing nursing actions in the elderly with bronchopneumonia in the General Teaching Hospital ¨Dr. Agostinho Neto", period August - December 2014. The universe and sample of the work, were the 330 died majors 60 years by this pathology. Data were collected from medical records and necropsy protocols. The variables were studied: age, sex, personal pathological history, respiratory and extra-respiratory symptoms, main anatomopathological alterations. It was concluded that bronchopneumonia in 81.5% of the cases was diagnosed before death, being more frequent in the later ages of life, with dyspnea, cough with expectoration, asthenia and neurological alterations as predominant symptoms, the most associated pathologies frequent heart diseases, stroke and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and dyspnea was a symptom of severity associated with severe complications such as: severe cerebral edema and pulmonary thromboembolism, nursing actions are proposed for better quality of life of the older adult with bronchopneumonia. The authors reached conclusions and recommendations.