Evaluation of the patients admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit

Abstract

Introduction: This study examined the clinical and demographic characteristics of the patients in our center within a year to create a database.Materials and Methods: A retrospective study was undertaken of 349 children aged 1 mouth to 20 years who admitted to Uludag University Medical Faculty Child Health and Diseases Department, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) between March 2013 -March 2014. Age, gender, presence of chronic disease, intensive care unit admission reason, length of stay, duration of mechanical ventilation, mortality rates were evaluated.Results: The mean age of the patients were 7.12 +/- 6.05 years and the average intensive care unit (ICU) stay was 8.47 +/- 13.96 days. Infections, diabetic ketoacidosis and epilepsy were the most common reasons and endocrinology, nephrology and neurological diseases were the most common underlying diseases at admission to the ICU. Mortality was seen 12.9 % of patients. The length of stay, duration of ventilation, oncological diseases and hematologic malignancy were statistical significantly higher than survivor patients.Conclusions: This assessment observed that very different patient groups monitored in PICU, in the majority of patients had underlying chronic disease and this condition is associated with mortality.