Patologías asociadas a mayor mortalidad en pacientes de la unidad de cuidado crítico de emergencia, Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso, de marzo 2014 a septiembre 2015

Abstract

Background: The Critical Care Unit is an area specialized in the care of serious patients with a high risk of mortality. Objetive: To determine the pathologies associated with increased mortality in patients from the Emergency Critical Care Unit at the Vicente Corral Moscoso Hospital from March 2014 to September 2015. Methodology: A quantitative, descriptive and retrospective study was carried out. The universe consisted of 1113 clinical histories of patients attended, of which 195 patients represent mortality in the Emergency Critical Care Unit of the Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso. The information has been registered by reviewing the medical records and has been entered into forms. The data was processed using the Microsoft Excel V.2016 and SPSS V.15 programs by absolute frequency and percentage, which were represented in tables. Results: The mortality in the Critical Care Unit was 17.5%. The average age of the deceased patients was 58.78 ± 22.64 years, 47.7% were ≥65 years old, 59% were male and 43.6% came from other wards of the hospital. 66.2% suffered from clinical pathologies; the main causes of death were: cardiovascular disease (21%), trauma (15.9%), cerebrovascular event (15.9%), septic shock (14.4%), respiratory disease (7.2%) and gastrointestinal (7.2%). Conclusions: The observed mortality is similar to that reported in other studies; the most affected were elderly and male patients. The pathologies that were associated with a higher mortality were cardiovascular disease, trauma and cerebrovascular event