Introduction:

pediatric intensive therapies are essential in hospital operation, since the care of the critical child is one of their priority objectives.

Objective:

to characterize morbidity and the main quality indicators, established by the Ministry of Public Health (MISAP), for 11 years (2008-2018).

Method:

a retrospective, epidemiological descriptive study was carried out in the PICU Bayamo, with patients admitted from 2008-2017, to study the behavior of hospital indicators (direct admissions, net and gross mortality, general and ventilated survival, average stay, indices occupational and infection rate associated with health care) and morbidity (income, expenses, evaluation of income according to age groups, reason for admission, type and nutritional status).

Results:

of the admissions: 64.2% were direct, of them 63.6% came from the guardhouse and from the in-hospital 49.3% were from gastro; 50.1% under one year of age, 18.2% malnourished, 14.2% surgical, in 61.3% due to infectious causes. Among the indicators: net mortality rate (2.7%) and gross (3.4%), average length of stay (5.6), occupational index (77.7%) and rate of infections associated with health care (5.3). Overall survival (96.5%), ventilated survival (86.1%) and in children under one year of age of 96.8% and 85.0%, respectively.

Conclusions:

hospital indicators are met with a high overall survival and in the ventilated patient; there is an adequate use of the beds and within the income the minors of one year, the infectious causes and those coming from the body of the guard predominated.

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