Patterns Of Intensive Care Unit Admission And Associated Factors Among Surgical Patients In Jimma University Medical Center. Jimma, South West Ethiopia

Background: An intensive care unit (ICU) is a specially staffed and equipped, separated area in a hospital, dedicated to the management of patients with life threatening illnesses and which incorporates patients that need advanced respiratory, airway or hemodynamics support. Even though there is ICU in JUSH the quality as well as the quantity is inadequate. Therefore studying the frequency of admissions in the ICU, reasons for admission in the ICU, the average duration of stay in the ICU and also whether or not the admitted patient needed mechanical ventilation or not, may help understand the problems present regarding to the ICU and help advance the service