Behavior of the acute Chronic Obstructive Pulmonar Disease in the Intensive Care Unit of Cardenas. A 5-years-work experience

Authors

  • Ernesto Malpica Alonso HOSPITAL TERRITORIAL DOCENTE "JULIO ARISTEGUI VILLAMIL". CÁRDENAS. MATANZAS
  • Maritza Pérez Silva HOSPITAL TERRITORIAL DOCENTE "JULIO ARISTEGUI VILLAMIL". CÁRDENAS. MATANZAS
  • Kalí García Malpica HOSPITAL TERRITORIAL DOCENTE "JULIO ARISTEGUI VILLAMIL". CÁRDENAS. MATANZAS

Keywords:

PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE, SEPSIS, INTENSIVE CARE, INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL HUMANS, MIDDLE AGED, AGED, 80 AND OVER, FEMALE, MALE

Abstract

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonar Disease is of significative prevalence in our settings, with an important socioeconomic impact and, among the respiratory diseases it develops by frequent acute outbreaks, invalidating patients´ active laboral life. Our objective was characterizing morbimortality of the patients entering the Intensive Care Unit of the territorial hospital of Cardenas in the period 2003-2007 with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonar Disease. We studied 100 % of the patients entering the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital of Cardenas diagnosed with acute Chronic Obstructive Pulmonar Disease during a 5 years period (2003-2007), analizing a number of variables, indispensable to characterize the evolution of these patients. The decompensation diagnosis of the disease is late, and it favours the number of patients entering the Intensive Care Unit of this institution in the acute phase of the disease to be higher than those reported by other authors. Sepsis is the first cause of decompensation. Morbimortality by Chronic Obstructive Pulmonar Disease is still a problem in our settings.

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Malpica Alonso E, Pérez Silva M, García Malpica K. Behavior of the acute Chronic Obstructive Pulmonar Disease in the Intensive Care Unit of Cardenas. A 5-years-work experience. Rev Méd Electrón [Internet]. 2014 Mar. 5 [cited 2025 Mar. 12];30(4):471-5. Available from: https://revmedicaelectronica.sld.cu/index.php/rme/article/view/522

Issue

Vol. 30 No. 4 (2008)

Section

Research article

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