CHARACTERIZATION OF THE PROFILE OF PATIENTS ADMITTED TO THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT OF A HOSPITAL IN NORTHWEST PARANÁ

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ABSTRACT: The objective of the study was to characterize the profile of patients admitted to the ICU of a hospital in the northwest of Paraná, and for this, a sample of 520 patients was used, from the year 2022. As a result, it was analyzed that the majority of patients were men (56.9%), the average age was 64 years, SAPS 3 was 31.3% and stay in ICU was around 6 days, the biggest cause of hospitalization was for clinical reasons (67.5 %) and as an outcome of hospitalization, the majority were discharged (436 patients). It is concluded that the patients who required intensive care at HMU in 2022 are mostly elderly men, admitted for clinical reasons, who remained hospitalized for less than a week and the majority of them survived the critical illness.Keywords: Intensive care unit; Inpatients.

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Published
2023-11-22
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Faion Malagutti EM, DE SOUZA HERREIRO K, do Prado Ferreira LS. CHARACTERIZATION OF THE PROFILE OF PATIENTS ADMITTED TO THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT OF A HOSPITAL IN NORTHWEST PARANÁ. arqmudi [Internet]. 2023Nov.22 [cited 2025Sep.6];27(ESPECIAL2). Available from: https://periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/ArqMudi/article/view/70044
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Suplemento em Ciências, Biologia e Biodiversidade