Pediatric Intensive Care Unit: profile of hospitalizations and mortality

• Autor(a) principal: Benetti, Marilian Bastiani
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Weinmann, Angela Regina Maciel, Jacobi, Luciane Flores, Moraes, Anaelena Bragança de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Saúde (Santa Maria)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsm.br/revistasaude/article/view/40879
• topic: Health profile; Intensive Care Units; Pediatrics; Hospitals University.; Perfil de saúde; Unidades de Terapia Intensiva; Pediatria; Hospitais Universitários.

Objective: To characterize and evalute associations of variables related to hospitalizations and the mortality in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) of a University Hospital from 2006 to 2013. Method: It was developed a descriptive, retrospective and cross sectional study with investigations of 1805 patient records from hospitalizations occurred in 8 years in the PICU. Results: Hospital discharge was observed in 87,5% of the patients hospitalized which frequently presented age until 1 year old (41,6%) – 2 months old highlighted. The average length of patients’ stay was 7 and half days and the main causes of hospitalization were pneumonia, abdominal postoperative, trauma and sepsis. Moreover, the rate of mortality was 14,3% (42,6% of it due to sepsis) and the proportion of death by sepsis was significantly higher than trauma and abdominal postoperative – with no further differences from the mortality caused by pneumonia. Conclusion: The hospitalizations of 2 month-old children were predominant and the mortality was most resulted from sepsis.