1. PERFIL DE PACIENTES OBSTÉTRICAS ADMITIDAS NA UNIDADE DE TERAPIA INTENSIVA DE UM HOSPITAL PÚBLICO.
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Ernesto Silva, Djailma Cinthia, Feitosa Lopes, Laryssa Grazielle, Santos Nunes, Marília Gabrielle, Farias de Souza, Maria Aparecida, Nascimento de Moura, Rebeca, and de Azevedo Medeiros, Hortência Héllen
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CESAREAN section , *HIGH-risk pregnancy , *INTENSIVE care units , *RESEARCH methodology , *MEDICAL records , *OBSTETRICAL emergencies , *OBSTETRICS , *PATIENTS , *PREECLAMPSIA , *PUBLIC hospitals , *QUANTITATIVE research , *RETROSPECTIVE studies , *DESCRIPTIVE statistics , *ACQUISITION of data methodology , *DISEASE complications ,HOSPITAL care evaluation - Abstract
Objective: to analyze the profile of obstetric patients admitted to the Intensive Care Unit. Method: quantitative, descriptive and retrospective study, developed through searches and retrieval of data referring to socioeconomic and clinical profile of pregnant or postpartum patients' records admitted for obstetric cause, between January 2017 and December 2018, in the Intensive Care Unit of a public hospital in Pernambuco, Brazil. The results were analyzed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences. Results: most women were between 19 and 29 years (56.1%), and pardas (88.6%). The majority was hospitalized in the postpartum (75.6%), the most prevalent delivery type was cesarean section (87.2%), hypertensive syndromes were the major cause of hospitalization (61.8%). The main hypertensive disorder was pre-eclampsia (39.8%). Conclusion: the young adult puerperal patients, whose delivery route was cesarean section, with hypertensive syndromes are hospitalized more frequently in the Intensive Care Unit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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