Mortality Pattern in Intensive Care Unit: Experience at Abakaliki Southeastern Nigeria

• 作者: Chukwuemeka O. Eze Francis C. Okoro Monday Nwobodo Richard Ewah Thomas Nnaji Uma Kalu
• 来源期刊: 心血管病(英文)
• 学科: 教育
• 关键词: PATTERN MORTALITY Intensive Care Unit Abakaliki South-Eastern Nigeria
• 年，卷（期）: 2020,（7）
• 页码范围: 473-482
• 页数: 10页
• 分类号: G63

摘要

<strong>Background: </strong><span style="font-family:;" "=""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">An intensive care unit (ICU) is a special unit of a hospital that provides intensive treatment for patients with severe or life-threatening illnesses and injuries, which require constant care and close monitoring with life support equipment. The mortality rate is still very high in most ICUs especially in the developing countries due to late presentation of patients, unavailability of well trained staff and lack of life support equipment. There has not been any previous study on the mortality pattern in ICU of Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital Abakaliki (AEFUTHA). It is against this background that we embarked on this retrospective descriptive hospital based study of the mortality pattern in ICU of a Tertiary Hospital in Abakaliki, South-eastern Nigeria. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Method: </span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">This is a retrospective descriptive hospital based study. The admission and discharge registers of the ICU ward were used to extract information on biodata, diagnosis, duration and outcome of all admissions from January to December 2019 (12</span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:;" "=""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">months). </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Results: </span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">A total of 174 (male 113, female 71) patients were admitted over the 12</span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">months period with mean age of 46.31</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">±</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">12.28</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">years. Seventy</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">-</span><span style="font-family:;" "=""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">one