Perfil epidemiológico dos pacientes atendidos em uma unidade de terapia intensiva cardiopulmonar de um hospital de referência do Ceará

Abstract

The identification of the epidemiological profile of an ICU is fundamental in the aid of decision making and in the creation of strategies aiming at the improvement of the quality of the service. Objective: to identify the profile of patients admitted to the Cardiopulmonary Unit. Methodology: this is a retrospective, descriptive character study with cross section, and presents a quantitative approach, carried out in a referral hospital of Ceará. Being parsed the data through charts from January to July 2017 that filled a semi structured form directing the search for the findings of relevance to the study. Results: the results showed that the population is predominantly male, older and resident in most of the emergency, coming also from the Center Post Adult intensive care, hospital wards, operating room, intensive care unit and the Hemodynamics. The average hospital stay was 14 days. The most common diagnoses of hospitalization were pneumonia, followed by congestive heart failure, postoperative valve replacement, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, sepsis, acute pulmonary edema and acute myocardial infarction without ST segment e depression above, during the period of Research occurred more transfers than deaths. The death index was 39,80%. Conclusion:the knowledge of this data is essential to optimize the process of work and care, making it possible to better plan health care actions.