Perfil epidemiológico de la unidad de cuidados intensivos pediátricos del Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso. Cuenca, Ecuador. 2018

Abstract

Background: The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit is a highly complex specialized service designed to provide comprehensive and constant care for severely ill patients. Objectives: to describe the epidemiological profile of patients admitted to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit of the Vicente Corral Moscoso Hospital from January 1 to December 31, 2018. Methods: a descriptive study was carried out, the universe consisted of 241 patients who were admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit in 2018 and met the inclusion criteria, the information was collected from the review of medical records in a form prepared by the author. The data were analyzed in the SPSS.15 program, the qualitative variables are presented in the form of frequencies and percentages and the quantitative variable as the median. Results: 241 medical records were reviewed, observing that the most prevalent age corresponds to the group of younger infants (32.8%), most of the patients were male (56.4%), The main admission diagnosis was respiratory diseases (27.4%), the most frequent comorbidity was related to diseases of the nervous system with 37.5%, while 34.4% of patients who developed complications correspond to the infectious cause, mortality was 12, 5%. Conclusions: the most frequent causes of admission were respiratory diseases, approximately a fourth group of patients presented comorbidities and mortality was 12.5%.