Cyanosis as Mortality Risk among Children with Severe Pneumonia
Abstract: Pneumonia is the
second leading cause of infant death in Indonesia. The mortality of pneumonia
in children is associated with cyanosis, malnutrition, and age less than 4
months. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between
cyanosis, malnutrition, and age less than 4 months with the mortality of infant
patients with severe pneumonia at Dr Hasan Sadikin General hospital.
Methods: A case-control study has been conducted using medical records of
80 patients with pneumonia at Dr. Hasan Sadikin General Hospital, period
January 2007 to December 2013. The inclusion criteria were medical records
consisting of information about infants with severe pneumonia, without comorbid
diagnoses, who died during hospitalization. While controls were infants who
have been discharged from hospital. The independent variables of this study
were cyanosis, malnutrition, and age less than 4 months, while the dependent
variable was the mortality. Data were analyzed by using univariate and
bivariate analysis.
Results: The study reported that only cyanosis was associated with
mortality. Malnutrition and age less than 4 months were not associated with
mortality.
Conclusions: Cyanosis is known to be the only factor that has affected
the mortality of infants with pneumonia who are hospitalized at Dr. Hasan
Sadikin General Hospital.
Keywords: Children, cyanosis,
pneumonia
Author: Herza Fadlinda, Adi
Utomo, Henni Djuhaeni
Journal Code: jpkedokterangg160250
