Prevalência de pneumonia em Unidade de Terapia Intensiva no Hospital Infantil de Imperatriz - MA

Abstract

Pneumonia is an important public health problem contributing to high rates of morbidity and mortality in the world especially in developing countries. This study aims to evaluate the prevalence of pneumonia in children hospitalized in the pediatric intensive care unit, as well as to estimate the incidence of these children, with diagnosis of pneumonia and identify variables associated with the development of pneumonia, which determine the incidence of infant mortality this ICU for pneumonia. This is a descriptive study with cross-sectional and retrospective approach from a review of medical records of children who were hospitalized in a pediatric intensive care unit of a Municipal Hospital in Imperatriz Maranhão, during the period January to December 2011. data were initially obtained through the records contained in the admission book of children in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, where they found 230 admissions. In a second stage, were selected and included in the records of children of both sexes aged one month to 12 years of age, hospitalized pediatric intensive care unit with a diagnosis of nosocomial pneumonia research, making a sample of 60 medical records of which held the collection of the data contained therein using previously structured form. Of the 230 patients admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital, in the period January-December 2011 26% (n = 60) developed nosocomial pneumonia, age between 1 to 12 months 63% (n = 38), followed ages between 13 and 36 months with 36% (n = 13), the diagnosis of pneumonia was 26%. It was observed that pneumonia related to health care at the Children's Hospital the Imperatriz represented a common complication in pediatric patients under intensive care, being an aggravating factor for the occurrence of deaths, with important relationship to invasive procedures particularly invasive mechanical ventilation as well as therapy used.