Causes and Circumstances of Deaths of Patients Admitted to the Adult Medical Intensive Care unit of Tirunesh bejing General Hospital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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Date
2021-06
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Addis Abeba University
Abstract
Background: Intensive care unit (ICU) is a special unit of a hospital that provides intensivetreatment for patients with severe life-threatening illnesses which require uninterrupted care and
close monitoring with life support equipment. The mortality rate is still very high in most ICUs
especially in the developing countries due to late presentation of patients, unavailability of welltrained
staff
and lack of life support equipment. This study tried to identify the causes and circumstances
of
the death
of
critically
ill
patients.
Objectives
:
To
identify
causes
and
circumstance
of
deaths
of
patients
admitted
to
the
adult
intensive
care
unit
(ICU)
at
Tirunesh
Beijing
Hospital
public
hospital,
Addis
Ababa,
2021.
Methods: A retrospective cross-sectional study was conducted. All patient charts who were
admitted and died in adult ICU from Sept 2018 to August 2020 and met the criteria were included.
Data
was
collected
by
using
structured
and
pretested
checklists.
SPSS
version
25
software
was used for data
entry
and analysis.
Result: A total of 193 death cards were reviewed, of which 116(60.1%) were males and 77(39.9%) were females. Common deaths 91(47.2%) occurred in the age group20-40yrs with meanstandard deviation of 43.92±17.26 years. Stroke is the leading cause of death accounting for 27(14%) of total death followed by Retroviral infection (13.5%).The mortality of patients admitted
in MICU was 39% and 52.8% of the deaths took place in the first 72 hours of admission to theintensive care unit.
Conclusion: The total mortality was considerably high and it is affecting the young age
groups. Majority of the patients are dying in the first 72 hours, indicating that most patients
are visiting the intensive care unit in the late stages of their illnesses. Further study is required
for better understanding of the existing situation
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Keywords
Intensive care unit, Mortality