%0 Journal Article
%T Carpal tunnel syndrome in the Cl¨ªnica Universitaria San Juan de Dios de Cartagena, Colombia. Epidemiological, clinical profile and therapeutic evolution
%A Bedoya-Mosquera Jaddy Sandrey
%A Vergara-Bonnet Julio
%A Araujo-Orozco Marco Antonio
%A Ramos-Clason Enrique Carlos
%J Revista Ciencias Biom¨¦dicas
%D 2012
%I Universidad de Cartagena
%X Introduction: carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is one of the major health problems ofworkers who carry out tasks related to intense manual effort and repetitive movementsof the upper limb.Objectives: to determine the epidemiological and clinical profile of patientsattending a pain unit, identify job, clinical and therapeutic characteristicsto compare the clinical course of patients before and after surgery.Methods: a prospective descriptive study. The study population consisted of allworkers who were diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome as an occupational diseaseand looked at the Pain Unit at the San Juan de Dios Clinic in Cartagena, Colombia,from 2008 to 2010. Personal or telephone interview was conducted and clinical historyreview. Hypothesis tests were performed for quantitative variables (Student¡¯s test or signtest) and qualitative variables (Chi2 or Fisher¡¯s test) to compare the initial findings andafter interventions.Results: the incidence of work-related CTS is 10.7% in the Pain Unit at the San Juande Dios Clinic. We found that people who work in companies of shrimp or tuna are themost affected, with average time of absence from work for three years. We found thatin patients undergoing surgical treatment, most improve in early post-operative, but thesymptoms reappear again subjected to the same occupational hazard. We found delayeddiagnosis and therefore treatment.RESUMEN:Introducci¨®n: el s¨ªndrome del t¨²nel carpiano (STC) es uno de los principales problemasde salud de los trabajadores, que desarrollan tareas relacionadas con esfuerzosmanuales intensos y movimientos repetitivos del miembro superior.Objetivos: determinar el perfil epidemiol¨®gico y cl¨ªnico de los pacientes que consultana una unidad de dolor, identificar las caracter¨ªsticas laborales, cl¨ªnicas y terap¨¦uticas,comparar la evoluci¨®n cl¨ªnica de los pacientes antes y despu¨¦s de la intervenci¨®nquir¨²rgica.M¨¦todos: estudio observacional descriptivo prospectivo. La poblaci¨®n estudiada estuvoconstituida por todos los trabajadores a quienes se les diagnostic¨® s¨ªndrome de t¨²neldel carpo como enfermedad profesional y consultaron a la Unidad de Dolor de la Cl¨ªnicaSan Juan de Dios en Cartagena, Colombia, desde el 2008 hasta el a o 2010. Se realiz¨®entrevista personal o telef¨®nica y se revis¨® la historia cl¨ªnica. Se realizaron pruebas dehip¨®tesis para variables cuantitativas (T de Student o prueba de signos) y para variablescualitativas (Chi2 o test de Fisher) para comparar los hallazgos in¨ªciales y despu¨¦s delas intervenciones.Resultados: la incidencia del STC de origen laboral es del 10.7% en la Unida
%K Carpal tunnel syndrome
%K Pain syndrome
%K Risk work.
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