Complications that increase the time of Hospitalization at ICU of patients submitted to cardiac surgery.
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.
Laizo
Artur
A
UFMG, UniversityPresidente Antonio Carlos, Juiz de Fora, MG,Brazil. artur93@hotmail.com
Delgado
Francisco Eduardo da Fonseca
FE
Rocha
Glauco Mendonça
GM
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