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ISSN - Electrónico: 2661-6947 / DOI: 10.36015 • LILACS BIREME (19784); LATINDEX (20666)
INTRODUCTION. The use of an oximeter as a non-invasive monitoring method for a patient, allows dentist to detect, evaluate and prevent emergency situations. OBJECTIVE. Analyze the pulse oximetry in patients attended for dental extractions in the Faculty of Dentistry´s Surgical Center at the Universidad Central del Ecuador. MATERIALS AND METHODS. Observational, descriptive study of 30 patients treated under surgical exodontics protocol and 30 under simple exodontics protocol.Vital signs were measured with pulse oximeter and the data was processed with the International Business Machines Statistical Package for the Social Sciences Version 2.0 to determine the variance through distribution of frequencies, means, standard deviation, Student T tests and Anova. RESULTS. There was a greater alteration in pulse, during the exodontic phase in both protocols, while oxygen saturation increased at the anesthesic phase, without having relevant variances. Women patients have increased values of oxygen saturation (95,5%) and pulse (87,07 ± 1,39 beats per minute) compared to men during all phases of both protocols. There were significant pulse variations in patients who had surgical extractions with mild level anxiety. In the other hand, in simple extractions, there was greater pulse variance in patients who have moderate anxiety according to the Corha Anxiety Scale. During the study four urgencies 6,66% (4; 60) were identified. CONCLUSION. Constant monitoring by the pulse oximeter during dental care, allowed to identify events that might have compromised the integrity of the patient, in order to prevent and avoid they become an emergency situation.
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