Abstract

CAMACHO PLASENCIA, Carlos Alberto; PORTUONDO ALACAN, Orietta  and  AMADOR ROMERO, Silvia. Morbimortality for bacterial meningitis of the Intensive Cares Unit. Rev haban cienc méd [online]. 2007, vol.6, n.3, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1729-519X.

It was carried out a traverse and descriptive study of 87 patients discharged with the diagnosis of bacterial meningitis of the Intensive Cares Unit of the Hospital Docente Pediátrico del Cerro during the period between January 1º 1992 and December 31 the 2004. The patients are described according to variables of individual characterization and of the affection and also it is identified the relationship between some of this variables and the mortality. It was determined that the illness was more frequent in the group 1-4 year-old and in the masculine sex. The most common germ was Haemophilus influenzae. The inferior age to 3 months, the neumoccocal meningitis and the late diagnosis was related with a smaller survival. A great number of children (71,3%) presented complications product of the illness. The general mortality was 9,2%.

Keywords : bacterial meningitis; children; epidemiology; complications; mortality.

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