Relación entre el diagnóstico de ingreso y la causa de muerte en pacientes mayores de 50 años, con compromiso neurológico agudo en el Hospital de Especialidades Teodoro Maldonado Carbo durante enero 2017 a diciembre 2018.

Abstract

There are several diseases that produce acute neurological deficit causing a significant loss of level of consciousness and that can be potentially serious in the development of its evolution and its complications, therefore they are considered of great importance due to the demand for specialized care that they require and because of the high mortality they present. The main objective of this study is to categorize the cause of death of the patients studied in relation to their diagnosis of admission. Therefore, a Prevalence or Cross-sectional study of observational and descriptive type was carried out, with a universe of 307 patients who had acute neurological involvement and were admitted to any unit of Teodoro Maldonado Carbo Hospital during 2017 and 2018. As for To the results, 63.5% of the patients died due to the same cause of admission with a hospital stay of less than 10 days and presenting more than two frequent comorbidities, including HTA and DMII, in contrast to those who died from other causes or for other complications It is concluded that this type of disease has a high mortality in early periods of its evolution and the approach to its modifiable risk factors is of great importance.