Intensive care in a regional hospital. Demographic characteristics and mortality
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Intensive care unit, stadistics, mortalityAbstract
Objective:To describe a poblation admitted to IntensiveCare Unit of the Tony Facio Hospital of Limón.
Materials and methods:Information about all patientsadmitted to Intensive care unit during 6 months period wasgathering.
A data base in SPSS 11.0 was created to process all information.
Results:A total of one hundred fifty five patients werestudied, 82 (53%) were men, 113 were admitted to medicinearea, 34 to surgical area and 8 to obstetrics area. Meanlength of stay was 5, 22 days. Most patients (30%) have thediagnosis of acute coronary syndrome.
General mortality was 15, 5 % (24 patients), septic shockwas the most important causes of death.
Conclusion:First data about national intensive care unit'sdemographics facts are show.
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