Complications of acute pancreatitis in critical patients: an integrative review

Objective: To describe the main complications that affect the patient with a diagnosis of pancreatitis in intensive therapy environment. Methodology: it is an integrative literature review to search for articles in the LILACS, PUBMED and SCIELO, with articles published between 1992 to 2018, in the Portuguese language, English and Spanish. Results: There were found initially 478 studies, of which 14 were included in this review. Among the main local complications in patients withacutepancreatitiscanhighlight the infectednecrosis, as a pseudocyst, abcess, intestinal perforation and abdominal hemorrhage. Among the systemiccomplications stand torespiratoryinsufficiency, acute renal injury, septicshock, multipleorgan dysfunction among others. Conclusion: varies the complications that may be resulting from acute pancreatitis. For the admission of these patients in the ICU and a detailed clinical examination is based to corretada identification of pancreatitis, immediate treatment and better mane of this pathology and its complications, which can directly reflect on the final outcome of these patients.