Perfil clínico-epidemiológico en pacientes ingresados a UCIN en el Hospital Teodoro Maldonado Carbo desde agosto 2018 hasta agosto 2020.

Abstract

The neonatal period is a critical stage of life in which many conditions dictate the patient's health. There are conditions known to be of the newborn, as well as external conditions that can influence the pathologies or their development. In the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), the majority of patients admitted are preterm; and their mortality is related to various factors. In this study we want to determine the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of the patients admitted to the NICU, for which data of the patients admitted to this area from August 2018 to August 2020 was collected. After applying the inclusion and exclusion criteria, a sample of 236 patients was obtained, of which the following results were obtained: 58,5% were male, 91,1% were obtained by cesarean delivery, the average of gestational age was 34,5, the mean weight was 2257.69 g. Of the admitted patients, 77,4% had respiratory distress syndrome. 8,5% of the neonates died. There is a moderate correlation between gestational age and weight with the days of stay, p <0.005.