Differences in the prognosis among severe trauma and medical patients requiring mechanical ventilation.

摘要: Objetive. To find the differences between prognosis of patients with severe traumatism injury and those who were admitted medical pathology also required mechanical ventilation in our ICU. Patients Method. Retrospective descriptive study a polyvalent ICU third level hospital for period 8 years. Epidemiological variables such as age, sex, average stay, mortality, APACHE II at admission days ventilation, analyzed that received during this period. Results. During 208 732 patients, all them ventilation. are more younger (41.8 vs 55.3 years, p = 0.001) entered state minor severity, according to prognostic index (14.8 17.4, < 0.001), despite which they (9.8 7.8 days, 0.017) had higher stay (11.4 9.4 0.027), although mortality was significantly lower (38.2% 28.2%, 0.005). Multivariate analysis showed independent associated (p 0.0001), 0.0001) type patient 0.016). Conclusions. traumatic require be greater having an increased have better than likely younger.