Revista médica de Panamá
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Revista médica de Panamá · Jan 1997
Comparative Study[Factors involved in the survival and mortality of intensive care patients in Panama].
Biotechnology has been important for the management of the critical ill patients. Today the treatment is expensive and even more with complications, this work has the purpose to find out about mortality and survival and the associated factors that could promote alterations in the outcome. ⋯ We concluded that there is a high mortality related to the septic syndrome. Prevention to avoid the septic syndrome, is the best way to lower the high cost in the intensive care units.