Abstract

TAMAYO REUS, Caridad María; BASTART ORTIZ, Emma Aurora  and  CUNILL ROMERO, Susana. Mortality due to pneumonia in children under 5 years. MEDISAN [online]. 2014, vol.18, n.3, pp. 327-333. ISSN 1029-3019.

An observational, descriptive and cross sectional study of 18 children under 5 years of age, who died due to community acquired pneumonia (as the basic cause of death) was carried out in the Teaching Pediatric Southern Hospital during the period of January, 1997 to December, 2011, with the objective of characterizing them and to determine the mortality rates for this cause. The clinical, epidemiological and paraclinical variables were obtained from the death and morbidity records of the Statistic Department in the institution, as well as from the medical records of the patients. In the investigation it was observed that the highest number of deads corresponded to the male sex (67.7%) and to the age group 1-4 years (58.8%); very severe clinical pattern at admission (44.4%), anemia (82.3%), previous admissions (100,0%), stacking (77.7%), bronchial asthma as chronic disease (61.1%), lymphocytosis (61.1%), the normal leukocytes count (50.0%) and the images of bilateral inflammatory condensation in the x-rays (61.1%) also prevailed. The specific and proportional death rates for pneumonia showed descending evolutionary tendencies, as long as that of gross mortality revealed lower values

Keywords : boy; community acquired pneumonia; mortality due to pneumonia; basic death cause; pediatric hospitals.

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