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Background: Usually, neuro-critical patients demand more attention from physicians and need intensive care. Generally, those patients are admitted to the hospitals or to the emergency unit of the hospitals with severe neurological and neurosurgical conditions. So, in order to chieve prompt but proper steps for such patients, the assessment of patient’s demographic and clinical status is a very important issue for respective healthcare professionals. Aim of the Study: The aim of the present study was to assess the sociodemographic and clinical status of neuro-critical patients. Methods: This was a prospective observational study which was conducted in the ICU, Department of Anaesthesia, Analgesia, Palliative & Intensive Care Medicine, Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), Dhaka, Bangladesh from March 2018 to April 2020. In total 100 neuro-critical patients who fulfilled the inclusion criteria were taken as a sample population of the study. Written informed consent had been taken from all participants. Data were collected by a predesigned questioner. All data were processed, analyzed by using MS office and SPSS version 22.0. Results: The mean (±SD) age of the participants was found 54.51±17.77 years. The male participants were 57% and females were 43%. So, male participants were dominating in number. In total 67% of participants were from urban areas whereas 33% were from rural areas. Most of the patients were from middle-classed families which were 59%. In this study, in analyzing the causes of hospital admission of the participants we observed that 27%, 28%, 21%, and 15% were admitted to the hospitals with a head injury, intracerebral hemorrhage, subarachnoid hemorrhage, and tumor as the major causes respectively. Besides these, 9% of participants were admitted with other causes. Conclusion: The proper assessment of the sociodemographic and clinical status of neuro-critical patients is a very important task for the physicians for determining the exact treatment steps for such critical patients. |
