ICU admissions for obstetric causes

The objective was to analyze the admission of women of childbearing age to an Obstetric Intensive Care Unit. A cross-sectional, documentary and retrospective study was carried out in an Obstetric Intensive Care Unit, located in Fortaleza/Ceará, with women of childbearing age admitted to the unit in...

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Published inEnfermería global Vol. 18; no. 1; pp. 332 - 345
Main Authors Mourão, Luana Feitosa, Mendes, Igor Cordeiro, Marques, Antonio Dean Barbosa, Cestari, Virna Ribeiro Feitosa, Braga, Roussana Maria Barreto de Brito
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Murcia Servicio de Publicaciones, Universidad de Murcia 01.01.2019
Subjects
Health care
Intensive care
Obstetrics
Patient admissions
Pregnancy
Pregnancy complications
Brazil
Fortaleza Brazil
Ceara Brazil
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Summary:The objective was to analyze the admission of women of childbearing age to an Obstetric Intensive Care Unit. A cross-sectional, documentary and retrospective study was carried out in an Obstetric Intensive Care Unit, located in Fortaleza/Ceará, with women of childbearing age admitted to the unit in 2016. Data were collected from 106 medical records that met the inclusion criteria during the month of April 2017, using a semi-structured form, and analyzed by means of descriptive statistics. The majority of the women were between 20 and 29 years old, common-law married, with complete secondary education, primiparous, had initiated prenatal care in the first trimester of pregnancy, and attended 4 to 6 consultations. Among the direct obstetric causes (61.1%), the most frequent were Eclampsia (34.4%), HELLP syndrome (15.1%) and Severe preeclampsia (11%). The indirect obstetric causes (38.9%) included Renal insufficiency (13.5%), Acute lung edema (11.5%) and Heart disease (9.6%). Data revealed a fragile health care for women within the pregnant-puerperal cycle.
ISSN:1695-6141
DOI:10.6018/eglobal.18.1.302341