Mortalidad en pacientes con insuficiencia renal crónica en el Hospital Teófilo Dávila en el período de enero a junio 2022.

Abstract

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a gradual and stealthy disease, associated with risk factors, through which its progression and deterioration has developed into a pathology that went from being an important disease that harms few people to being a disease with global impact. This is an observational, descriptive, cross-sectional study to estimate the mortality rate and identify associated risk factors. The study population corresponds to patients with chronic renal failure at the Teófilo Dávila Hospital in the period from January to June 2022. A total of 126 patients with chronic kidney disease were identified in the study period, 44% being women and 56% men. In relation to age, most of the patients were in the age group of 20–59 years (44%), while the group over 60 years of age represented 56%, as seen in Table 1. In addition, it is observed that 67% of patients were on dialysis for periods of 1 year or less. while 33% are older than one year. It is identified that mortality in patients with chronic kidney disease at the Teófilo Dávila hospital in the city of Machala for the study period was 25% of which the most frequent cause of mortality was sepsis with 43.73%.