Epidemiological characterization of patients admitted to the Acre reference intensive care unit in 2020

Objective: To describe the epidemiological profile of patients admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of the Urgency and Emergency Hospital in Rio Branco, Acre state. Methods: This is a descriptive, retrospective and documentary field study with a quantitative approach based on data from patient records admitted between January 2020 and December 2020. Data collection was carried out on 869 medical records, which were used as the study’s sampling space. Results: It was observed that males predominated at admission, 60.07% (522) were male, while 39.93% (347) were female. The average age was 56.6 years. When dividing the elderly and adults, it was found that the elderly accounted for 47.87% (416) of the patients. Among the types of ventilation used on the patients, the most commonly used was mechanical ventilation 63.5% (558). When comparing the type of ventilation with the outcome of care, mechanical ventilation resulted in 70.4% (393) of patients dying and only 27.2% (153) being discharged alive. When analyzing the relationship between gender and outcome, males had a higher prevalence of discharges 59.8% (219), deaths 60.3% (279) and transfers 60% (24). The most frequent outcome was death 52.7% (463), followed by discharge 41.6% (366). Conclusion: In the study, males had a higher proportion of hospitalization, intubation and mortality than females. Mortality was higher among patients requiring mechanical ventilation. Analyzing the data, it cannot be said with certainty that length of stay influenced patient outcomes.