Mortality caused by severe pneumonia in ICU

Abstract

A study was performed on 80 children admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit at “Pedro Agustín Perez “Hospital Guantanamo, diagnosed with severe pneumonia from 2011 to 2012, with the aim of describing the behavior of mortality from the disease. The primary data was obtained through reviews of medical records. Age groups, nutritional status, radiological results and humoral pathology results of those deaths were studied. Discharge status, nutritional status, radiological results and humoral age mortality. It is considered that the severe pneumonia predominated in preschool children; mortality was higher in children under 5 year’s old, malnourished default, leukocytosis, low hemoglobin, elevated ESR and lobar radiopacity. Respiratory distress was the main direct cause of death and lobar pneumonia the predominant underlying cause.