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ISSN - Electrónico: 2661-6947 / DOI: 10.36015 • LILACS BIREME (19784); LATINDEX (20666)
Study morbidity and mortality of the Intensive Care Unit at Hospital Carlos Andrade Marin servings as a multipurpose unit and regional reference. Methodological Design: we performed a descriptive, transversal, retrospective analysis to determine the causes of morbidity and mortality in the intensive care unit at Hospital Carlos Andrade Marin from January 2012 to December 31, 2012. Data was collected from the face sheets of the medical records and introduced in a database with Visual Basic for Excel program. Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS version 20. Results: data were collected from 1199 patients, 59% male, median age 59 years, average length of stay of 4.9 days. Main causes of admission were medical 56%, the gross mortality was 24% and intensive care attributable to 11%, the average admission APACHE II was 17.3, with 26% of mortality. Conclusions: the main admission diagnosis was sepsis, this is
similar to other studies from other multipurpose units worldwide.
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