Profile of Hospitalization in Intensive Care Units for Adults in Anapolis, Goiás - 2012

Abstract

The entirety in health care has as one of its dimensions the access to the several levels of technological density of the system, which includes basic units and specialty hospitals and clinics. The Intensive Care Unit is the hospital sector for people at risk of worsening of conditions that could not be avoided or controlled whatsoever. This paper aims at describing the profile of hospitalizations in adult intensive care units in the city of Anápolis, Goiás, in 2012. It is a descriptive, documental and retrospective research with a quantitative approach to information. The data show that hospitalization average was lower than a thousand cases per year, mostly males; and the prevalent age groups corresponded to more advanced adulthood and elders; from the three analyzed units, two had a permanence average lower than other studies, except an emergency hospital; the main reasons for hospitalization were acute myocardial infarction, stroke and Congestive Heart Failure. The mortality rate was higher than the average found in most studies. The results point out the impact of demographic and epidemiological transition in demand and the use of health services.