Introduction:

critical or non-critically ill patients' medicine is oriented to the care of patients with acute and severe pathophysiological alterations that may compromise life and are potentially reversible.

Objective:

to describe the behavior of morbidity and mortality in Cuban collaborators in an Integral Diagnostic Center in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

Methods:

a descriptive, cross-sectional study was carried out in the Intensive Care and Hospitalization Wards of an Integral Diagnostic Center of the Capital District in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela from January 2019 to November 2020; the sample consisted of 282 collaborators who requested admission during that period.

Results:

the largest number of patients admitted to Intensive Care had a diagnosis of clinical disease -chronic decompensated arterial hypertension (21%)-, the most representative age group was 50 to 59 years old (32.17%) and male sex (65.73%), with a longer stay between four and six days (28%), 17 patients were ventilated (11.90%) and one death was reported with a diagnosis of atherothrombotic cerebral infarction. Among those admitted to hospital, surgical admissions (25.18%), age between 30 and 39 years (34.53%) and female sex (65.47%) were the most common, with a stay of between one and three days (43.17%). Arterial hypertension (34.75%) was the most relevant comorbidity, while the greatest number of admissions were of the medical occupational profile (34.75%).

Conclusions:

the morbidity of the collaborators was similar to that of their Venezuelan counterparts. There was only one death in the group of ventilated patients.

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