Introduction:

Secondary peritonitis is the inflammatory process in the peritoneal cavity generated by perforation, inflammation or gangrene of an intra-abdominal or retroperitoneal structure

Objective:

to determine the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of those killed by secondary peritonitis in the intensive care unit of the Doctor Leon Cuervo Rubio Surgical Clinical Teaching Provincial Hospital from January 2017 to December 2018.

Methods:

an observational, descriptive, cross-sectional investigation was carried out to determine the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of those killed by secondary peritonitis in the intensive care unit of the provincial surgical clinical teaching hospital Doctor León Cuervo Rubio from January 2017 to December 2018, universe the total of surgical patients and the sample of 34 deaths due to secondary peritonitis, the source used the medical records of each patient, the data were grouped according to variables, qualitative variables, frequency distribution was absolute (number) and relative (percent) ).

Results:

the deceased are of the female sex, from 60 to 79 years, with a stay of 16 to 23 days, the germ isolated in the cultures was Escherichia coli, the Mannhein index was greater than 29, the main surgical complication the residual abscess and systemic respiratory.

Conclusions:

Mortality from secondary peritonitis continues to be a health problem in intensive care units despite having all the means to treat it and the Mannhein index continues to be a good predictor of mortality.

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