19 May 2023>: Database Analysis
Causes of Death in Neonates, Infants, Children, and Adolescents at the University Children’s Clinical Hospital of Białystok Between 2018 and 2021
Monika Kamianowska 1ABDE* , Aleksandra Kamianowska 2BCDEF , Anna Wasilewska 1ACDEDOI: 10.12659/MSM.939915
Med Sci Monit 2023; 29:e939915
Table 3 The main underlying, secondary, and immediate causes of death of patients who died in 2018–2021 at the University Children’s Clinical Hospital of Białystok.
Year | Underlying cause of death | Secondary cause of death | Immediate cause of death |
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2018 | Congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (31.25%, N=5)Conditions originating in the perinatal period (12.5%, N=2) | Diseases of the respiratory system (31.25%, N=5)Diseases of the circulatory system (18.75%, N=3)Conditions originating in the perinatal period (18.75%, N=3) | Acute respiratory failure (18.75%, N=3)Respiratory arrest (18.75%, N=3) |
2019 | Conditions originating in the perinatal period (23.08%, N=3)Congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (15.38%, N=2)Diseases of the nervous system (15.38%, N=2)Diseases of the genitourinary system (15.38%, N=2) | Conditions originating in the perinatal period (30.77%, N=4)Diseases of the circulatory system (23.08%, N=3) | Acute respiratory failure (30.77%, N=4)Neonatal cardiac failure (30.77%, N=4) |
2020 | Congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (31.25%, N=5)Injury, poisoning, and certain other consequences of external causes (12.5%, N=2)Diseases of the respiratory system (12.5%, N=2) | Diseases of the respiratory system (25.00%, N=4)Symptoms, signs, and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not classified elsewhere (18.75%, N=3)Diseases of the digestive system (18.75%, N=3) | Acute respiratory failure (25.00%, N=4)Cerebral edema (12.5%, N=2)Anoxic brain damage, not elsewhere classified (12.5%, N=2) |
2021 | Congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities (21.43%, N=3)COVID-19 (14.29%, N=2) | Diseases of the respiratory system (28.56%, N=4) | Heart failure, unspecified (35.71%, N=5)Cardiac arrest, cause unspecified (35.71%, N=5) |