An Audit on Pattern of Mortality in a Medicine Icu at Tertiary Care Hospital of North-East India

Abstract

Background: Mortalities in medical Intensive Care Units (ICUs) are largely variable. Intensive care medicine has developed significantly over time. But still it is unpredictable in terms of pattern of mortality.
 Materials and Methods: A total of 266 patients who died in the ICU of a tertiary care Hospital over the period of one year were studied retrospectively to review the mortality pattern.
 Results: Out of 266 patients Male comprised 71.8% and female 28.2 %. Patients from rural area were 70.7% where as 29.3% belong to urban society. Among the study population preexisting diabetic and hypertensive patients were 10.5% and 16.5 % whereas 12.4 % were suffering from both. 56% of the study population was from more than 60 years age group. Sepsis (26.3%) was the leading cause of death followed by stroke (19.9%) and COPD (13.9%). Mean duration of hospital stay among study population was 7.61 days.
 Conclusion: Sepsis, stroke, respiratory and cardiovascular diseases are the leading causes of mortality in our study. Prospective, larger, more studies regarding ICU mortality should be carried out for policy planning to improve the healthcare resources.
 Keywords: mortality pattern, Intensive Care Unit, sepsis

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“…63.5% of the patients were males while 36.5% patients were females. In a study by Pal and Prashant 16 from Northeast India, authors audited reasons for mortality in patients admitted to MICUs. They noted that high number of patients with mortality had sepsis at 26.3%, stroke in 19.9% of the patients, and COPD in 13.9% of the patients.…”