Abreu SG, Pérez BAP, Fuentes FG, Portuondo LR, Pérez OM

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ABSTRACT

Introduction: Streptococcus pneumoniae is the most common cause of communityacquired bacterial pneumonia at pediatric ages.
Objective: to estimate the ratio of hospitalized cases and deaths of pneumonia as well as to describe the use of services to severely-ill patients in children with pneumonia and sepsis.
Methods: retrospective case-series study performed in children aged one to 18 years from 2002 to 2013 and of hospitalization data for pneumonia (X ray-confirmed) and sepsis in the intensive care unit from 2011 to 2013 in Centro Habana pediatric hospital.
Results: a total number of 5 672 admissions for pneumonia were registered, for a mean of 469 cases yearly, more frequent in males (53.2 %) and children aged one to four years (55.1 %). There were 14 deaths (0.25 % of total number) and nine of them were males (64.3 %). From 2011 to 2013, six to nine percent of children with pneumonia required admission to the severely-ill patient care unit with predominance of pre-school children.
Conclusions: the collected data may provide indirect evidence for analysis of the magnitude of pneumococcal disease in a pediatric hospital.

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