Patologias Mais Frequentes Em Uma Uti Neonatal No Norte Catarinense

The neonatal intensive care unit is a service that takes care of newborns in critical or potentially serious condition. Understanding the profiles of hospitalized newborns based on data analysis can help reduce morbidity and mortality. The objective of this research was to analyze the registered pathologies, such as diagnoses of newborns admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), in a maternity hospital in the North of Santa Catarina from January 2020 to July 2022, based on a comparative study with the Brazilian scientific literature. Thus, a retrospective survey was carried out, by simple sampling, through the collection obtained from the maternity hospital's database, having as inclusion criteria all neonates admitted to the NICU. Thus, the sample consisted of 307 neonates, divided between full-term and premature neonates. Among those born at term, we have 37% of hospitalized patients diagnosed with acute respiratory syndrome and 11% with meconium aspiration, being indicated as the most relevant; among preterm infants, 56% were hospitalized with a diagnosis of prematurity only and 35% were diagnosed with acute respiratory syndrome associated with prematurity. Thereby, there is a similarity, when compared to maternity hospitals in some Brazilian regions, which point to prematurity and related diseases as the leading cause of hospitalization. Given the scenario described, it is extremely important to analyze these pathologies, so that there is knowledge and potentially a resolution of the problem, as studies of this magnitude can enable the transformation of care realities, as neonatal and maternal health.