Diferencias diagnósticas en los trazados de electroencefalografía pre y post operatorios en niños después de cirugía cardíaca en una institución de referencia de Bucaramanga (Colombia).

Objective: to determine the presence of changes in the pre and postoperative electro-encephalographic diagnoses of children from zero to 18 years of age who underwent heart surgery in a reference institution in Colombia between the months of August to November of 2017. Materials and methods: electroencephalogram was taken one hour prior to the cardiac surgical procedure and another seven days after the procedure, clinical data were collected associated with the presence of abnormalities in the electroencephalogram. The data were subjected to descriptive, bivariate, and multivariate analysis. Results: changes in electroencephalographic traces were found from preoperative to postoperative in two ways, one with deterioration of normal to abnormal traces and the other with worsening of the abnormal tracing. Conclusions: patients are taken to surgery despite having altered paths. The population taken to cardiac surgery at the center of the study is very diverse, which causes varied neuro-logical results and influences changes in post-operative traces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]