Morbilidad y mortalidad en la unidad de cuidados intensivos del Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso durante el período 2000-2002

Abstract

The medical records of 751 patients admitted to the ICU of HVCM, in the period between January 2000 and December 2002 in order to determine the morbidity and mortality are assessed; admitted patients of both sexes, mostly between 20 and 30 years of age (18,24), whose main source was the province of Azuay, they dominate primary education mixed race ethnicity and Catholic religion. The largest number of patients admitted for external causes of morbidity and mortality, of which the 79,22pertenecen male. Of total revenues and the living 73,50egresaron 26,5fallecieron. This latter group 71,86falleció after 48 hours of admission. The first cause of mortality is the intracranial trauma (17,09), it is more common in men (88.24). People between 40 and 50 years was the most common group of deaths (17.09) The main causes of mortality coincide mostly with morbidity, and found the following in order of importance: intracranial trauma, intracranial hemorrhage, septicemia, substance intoxication, diabetes mellitus, other diseases of the respiratory system; broken neck, chest or pelvis, pneumonia, stroke, trauma, other internal organs, these latter two by two different causes of morbidity that stand among the top ten such as: Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum, and , burns or