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KMID : 0364019930260050365
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Korean Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
1993 Volume.26 No. 5 p.365 ~ p.372
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An Clinical Analysis on the Patients in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU)
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Abstract
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We analyzed the patients who were admitted to Surgical Intensive Care Unit(SICU) of Kyungpook National University Hospital from January 1987 through December 1991.
The results were as followings: The total number of patients for 5 years was 2446 and 1553(63.5%) were male, 893(36.5%) were female. The average age was 34.1 years old and the greatest age group was the 1-9 age group. The number of the patients
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Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, which was the highest among all departments, was 1608(65.7%). Congenital Heart disease was the most common among all diseases. The patients who had undergone any kinds of operations were 89.9% of
all
patients. The averge stay in SICU was 5.2 days. The overall mortality rate was 12.1%, which included hopelessly discharged patients and the highest mortality rate occurred in the patients over 80 years old. The highest cause of death was cardiac
problem(30.4%). The next was sepsis. The proportion of patients who had received a mechanical ventilatory support was 35.7% and 52% of those patients belonged to the department of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery. (Korean J Thoracic Cardiovas
Surg
1994; 27:365-372)
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