Open AccessEPIDEMIOLOGICAL PROFILE OF PATIENTS HOSPITALIZED IN A NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT
Author(s) -
Maryaeves de Souza,
Eduardo Shimoda,
Shaytner Campos Duarte
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
revista científica da faculdade de medicina de campos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2965-6575
pISSN - 1980-7813
DOI - 10.29184/1980-7813.rcfmc.214.vol.13.n1.2018
Subject(s) - observational study , epidemiology , medicine , neonatal intensive care unit , medical record , gestational age , pediatrics , intensive care , birth weight , low birth weight , intensive care unit , emergency medicine , intensive care medicine , pregnancy , genetics , pathology , biology , radiology
The infant mortality (IM) is caused due to a combination of biological, cultural, social events and flaws in the health system. In Brazil, it´s possible to observe that the control of IM is not yet evident. This study aimed to identify the main causes of hospitalization in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in 2012 and stratify their characteristics. This was a documentary cross-sectional observational study. 393 medical records were analyzed by the discharge neonatal summary and official data of deaths, made from January 2012 to December of 2012. The data were tabulated with the program “Originlab data analysis” and formatted in the Excel program. Prematurity was the main cause of hospitalization and neonatal death identified at work. Low birth weight, gestational age less than 34 weeks and the length of hospital stay were also analyzed characteristics favoring an increases risk of death. Efforts to better stratification of data from national epidemiological profiles are important for better attention to this age group.