2.Method
The study design was epidemiological,
descriptive cohort, retrospective, cross-
sectional and observational, carried out at
the Antiguo Hospital Civil de Guadalajara
Fray Antonio Alcalde. The population of
interest were patients attended at that
institution with a diagnosis of gastroschisis.
The inclusion criteria were patients with a
diagnosis of gastroschisis, having been
attended at the Antiguo Hospital Civil de
Guadalajara Fray Antonio Alcalde from
January 2018 to January 2022, and meeting
more than four qualitative variables. Clinical
records of patients with a diagnosis of
omphalocele, incomplete records with less
than four qualitative variables, being the
product of a pregnant woman with
gastroschisis before 2018 and after January
2022, and having been treated in another
hospital outside the Antiguo Hospital Civil
de Guadalajara Fray Antonio Alcalde were
excluded.
Data collection was performed during the
months of July and August 2023. Due to
patient confidentiality, no data that could
identify the patient was recorded.
The sample size was obtained by analyzing
the clinical records of the Antiguo Hospital
Civil de Guadalajara Fray Antonio Alcalde, in
which 104 cases were derived (n=104), from
which those that met the inclusion and
exclusion criteria were selected. The type of
sampling was by consecutive inclusion, in
which the final sample was composed of 48
cases (n=48).
Once the total sample size was defined
(n=48), a database was created using Excel
office, in which quantitative variables were
included, such as gestational age, sex of the
newborn, live or stillborn, delivered alive or
dead, age of the parents, time of diagnosis of
the pregnancy (weeks of gestation), time of
diagnosis of the gastroschisis type
abdominal defect (weeks of gestation),
number of normal ultrasounds reported,
duration with assisted ventilation, duration
with orogastric tube, weight at birth and at
discharge (kg), height at birth (cm), size of
the abdominal defect (cm) and number of
gestations.
On the other hand, the qualitative variables
considered were: place of origin of both
parents, factories, polluting industries or
exposure to insecticides, education and
employment of both parents, drug
addictions of both parents, socioeconomic
level, place of birth, admission diagnosis,
birth mode (vaginal or abdominal), prenatal
complications, genitourinary infections
during pregnancy, direct cause of death,
content of the abdominal defect, medical
approach after birth (advanced neonatal
resuscitation maneuvers, days of intubation,
parenteral nutrition and presence of sepsis),
type of surgical management for closure of
the abdominal defect (primary or staged
sutureless closure), medications required
(use of antibiotics as prophylactic
management, NSAIDs and opioids), type of
feeding (parenteral nutrition, exclusive or
mixed breastfeeding), requirement of
orogastric tube, complications during the
newborn's hospital stay (hemodynamic,
gastrometabolic, ventilatory, neurologic or
infectious), complications and subsequent
recurrent pathologies.