Prospective Study of clinical profile and outcome in Surgical ICU patients

Introduction: Surgical patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) were generally older, with a preexistent chronic condition and a poor nutritional status that could be associated with diverse mortality causesError! Bookmark not defined. . Major postoperative complications were not common, occurring in less than 20% of patients, but these patients have a four-fold higher mortality rate than patients without complications. i Infection was prominent among the surgical complications.The mortality rate of infected patients was now known to be more than twice that of non-infected patients. 2 in ICU. The ICU mortality rate in patients with severe sepsis was reported to be 39.2%. 2 In a prospective cohort study including 75 ICUs in Brazil, the mortality rates of patients with severe sepsis and septic shock were 34.4 and 65.3%. Study Design: Prospective Observational Study.