Morbimortality at the Polyvalent Intermediate Care Unit of the Teaching Military Hospital of Matanzas

Abstract

The Cuban population health status has been modified throughout the revolutionary period, when it passed from a predominantly infectiously pattern of morbimortality to a chronic non-transmissible one, to which contributes the aging process of the population. There were founded the Seriously-ill Attention Units, where this kind of patients receive a specialized, differentiated care, and the causes of morbimortality are changed. Our objective was to define the main causes of the morbimortality at the Polyvalent Intermediate Care Units, to design treatment strategies. We made a non-experimental retrospective study at the Polyvalent Intermediate Care Unit of the Military Hospital of Matanzas, where we reviewed the data recorded in our admission and discharging book, and the necropsy protocols of those patients who died during 2004. We made a statistic analysis and we reviewed the treatment protocols of the service. The most frequent cause of admission was the myocardial ischemia, with 178 patients (36.9 %), followed by the cerebrovascular disease, with 80 patients (16.59 %). The female sex predominated, with 268 patients (55 %). The most affected age group was the more-than-60 years-old persons group with 348 patients (72 %). The most frequent cause of death was bronchopneumonia with 8 patients (28.5 %).