title: Complications that increase the time of Hospitalization at ICU of patients submitted to cardiac surgery.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To show the complications that increase the permanence at intensive care unit (ICU) of the patients submitted to cardiac surgery.
  
  
  METHODS
  Eighty-five handbooks of patients submitted to cardiac surgery had been analyzed, retrospectively, from March to May 2009 at Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Juiz de Fora (MG)--Brazil--and 14 (16.47%) patients had been studied. They remained more than 5 days at ICU. In 85 patients occurred three deaths: two patients operated in urgency character and this increases the morbidity; one patient who remained in mechanical ventilation (MV) by 21 days.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Complications that had increased the time of hospitalization at ICU had been respiratory and metabolic in accordance with literature.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Complications that increase the time of permanence at ICU are those related to respiratory function, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, tabagism, pulmonary congestion, time of permanence under MV, diabetes, infections, renal insufficiency, stroke and hemodynamic instability.
authors.affiliation: UFMG, UniversityPresidente Antonio Carlos, Juiz de Fora, MG,Brazil. artur93@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Artur
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Laizo
authors.forename: Francisco Eduardo da Fonseca
authors.initials: FE
authors.lastname: Delgado
authors.forename: Glauco Mendonça
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Rocha
mesh_terms: D000704:Analysis of Variance; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000009:adverse effects*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D007902:Length of Stay / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008297:Male; D008659:Metabolic Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D012140:Respiratory Tract Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D012189:Retrospective Studies