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Multimed
versão On-line ISSN 1028-4818
Resumo
AREVALO FONSECA, Héctor et al. Characterization of critical patients in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU).General Luis Ángel Milanés Tamayo Teaching Pediatric Hospital. 2019. Multimed [online]. 2021, vol.25, n.1 Epub 01-Jan-2021. ISSN 1028-4818.
Introduction:
critically ill patients need strict surveillance in their treatment and follow-up to ensure knowledge of the slightest variation in their disease.
Objective:
to characterize the behavior of critically ill children who were admitted to the Pediatric Intensive Care service of the General Luis Ángel Milanés Tamayo Children's Hospital in 2019.
Methods:
a cross-sectional retrospective descriptive study was carried out in the Bayamo PICU of critically ill patients in 2019, to study their behavior.
Results:
74% of the admissions were under 1 year of age, 68% were male, 38% came from the body of guard, 27% were from the health area of the René Vallejo Polyclinic, 14% as a diagnosis on admission in severe sepsis, 57% were deceased under 1 year and 66% were ventilated.
Conclusions:
children under 1 year of age, male, from the guardhouse of the René Vallejo Polyclinic, with a diagnosis of severe sepsis were critical children admitted to our service in the period studied.
Palavras-chave : Morbidity; Pediatric intensive care; Critics.