%0 Journal Article %A Cüneyt Saltürk %A Zuhal Karakurt %A Gökay Güngör %A Özlem Yazicioglu Moçin %A Merih Balci %A Huriye Berk Takir %A Feyza Kargin %A Nalan Adigüzel %T Intensive care unit mortality of critically ill patients in first 24 hours: A single center 4-year cohort study %D 2012 %J European Respiratory Journal %P P2017 %V 40 %N Suppl 56 %X AimThere is limited number of studies examining the clinical features of patients who died within 24 hours of intensive care unit(ICU) admission.In our study we investigated whether these group of patients are in their terminal stage of desease or not.Methods: Study design: Retrospective cohort study,single center. Study place: 22 bed ICU of tertiary research and training hospitalStudy period: January 2008 –September 2011.Patients and data:All patients died within first 24 hours of ICU admission during mentioned period were included.Demographic data of patients, ICU severity scores (APACHE II),ICU data, time of ICU entry and death were recorded.Terminal states of patients were identified by evaluating existence of advanced stage of chronic deseases(cancer, pulmonary parenchymal diseases, neurological diseases) and their functional life perfomance of last 3 months (Karnofsky performance scale).Statistics: Results are recorded as median and inter quartile ratio (IQR).Results:Within the specified period %16 (n=447) of 2787 patients died.96 (%21) of these patients who died within the first day of ICU admission were included in the study.Patients'values were found as for age and APACHE II: 68(56-76), 32(26-36) respectively.Distribution of 48 (%50) patients who meet the definition of terminally ill from 2008 to 2011 were as follows:%0, %60, %46, %63.%15 of patients died in first hour while %50 of them died in the first 9 hours.Conclusion: Considering the presence of terminal desease in the half of the patients who died within first day of ICU admission, we recommend to follow these group of patients in the special units outside the ICU as national health policy and planning. %U https://erj.ersjournals.com/content/erj/40/Suppl_56/P2017.full.pdf