Introduction:

nowadays, Cerebrovascular Accident (CVA) invalidantes patients and is one of the main mortality causes around the world. Hospital mortality is one of the most adequate indicators to measure the attention quality, in health services.

Objective:

to determine mortality tendency of CVA.

Methods:

a descriptive series of cases research, with the universe of the 382 deceased patients, diagnosed with tomographic and/or obituary of CVA, from 2012 to 2017, at the Clinical Surgical Hospital “Lucía Íñiguez Landín”. Data were processed statistically.

Results:

during the years of study, an average of 62 patients perished for CVA. Age bracket from 71 to 80 stood out with 17.5 average. Tendency raised in the group from 51 to 60. Males prevailed with a mortality of 35.6 average; though it tend to become equal. Intracerebral Hemorrhages prevailed with a 34 average mortality, and arterial hypertension accompanied the 50% of dead patients, in most of the studied years.

Mortality direct causes were the cerebral edema and intracraneal hypertension with refration, mainly when hospital stays were short or intermediates.

Conclusions:

CVA mortality behaved differently through the studied years; though it increased and appeared, more frequently, in premature ages.

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