Introduction:

Multiorgan dysfunction syndrome is characterized by the development of a progressive and potentially reversible physiological dysfunction in two or more organs induced by a wide variety of aggresive situations. The immune-inflammatory system plays an indispensable role in its pathogenesis.

Objective:

To identify the mortality-associated factors in patients with multiorgan dysfunction syndrome.

Method:

An analytical, observational, and retrospective cohort study was developed in 68 patients with multiorgan dysfunction syndrome attended in the Intensive Care Medicine Service at the Hospital General Docente "Abel Santamaría Cuadrado", Pinar del Río, between 2018 and 2019. Variables used: age, sex, diagnosis at admission, nutritional assessment, score accordind to Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA), complications arose, systems and number of organs in failing process.

Results:

Male patients (60.3%) and age group between 60 and 79 (47.06%) were predominant. There was statistically significant association (p<0.05) between SOFA score and the number of failing organs at discharge. Respiratory complications were reported in 36% of deceased patients and in 38.89% of those discharged alive. Patients with cardiovascular failure were the most common (77.94%). Respiratory failure (p<0.001, OR:9 CI:2.52-32.08) and SOFA≥16 (p<0.042, OR:8.76 CI:1.07-71.51) increased the risk of decease-related discharge.

Conclusions:

Excessive body mass index and obesity, admission shock, high score of SOFA, respiratory and nerveous failure, as well as the enormeus failure of organs were associated with the worsen prognoses and with the highest probability of decease.

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