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[Fatal severe community-acquired pneumonia: risk factors, clinical characteristics and medical errors of hospital patients].

Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is the most common disease and potentially life-threatening infection in the worldwide. In the Nizhny Novgorod region, no analysis of the causes of mortality and medical errors of severe CAP patients.


AIM
To analyze the patients structure who died severe CAP in hospitals of the Nizhny Novgorod region, to identify the leading risk factors, to assess the clinical characteristics of fatal severe CAP and medical errors according to medical records of patients from 20152016.


MATERIALS AND METHODS
This was a retrospective study of medical records of 139 patients with fatal severe CAP from medical organizations of the Nizhny Novgorod region. The 72 patients died in 2015. The mortality rate from pneumonia was 67 cases in 2016.


RESULTS
The key predictors of the fatal severe CAP in patients of the Nizhny Novgorod region identified: socio-demographic status (men of working age, unemployed, smoking, alcohol and drug dependence), late treatment and hospitalization, tachypnea, hypotension, tachycardia, confusion, leukocytosis or leukopenia, thrombocytopenia, anemia, hyperglycemia, bilateral lung damage, pleural effusion, acute respiratory failure. The leading medical errors in fatal CAP were incorrect assessment of the severity of the patients condition, untimely CAP, non-monitoring of SpO2 on the first day of hospitalization, late transfer of patients to the intensive care unit, there was no influenza therapy, inadequate starting antibacterial therapy.


CONCLUSION
The main ways to avoid or minimize medical errors and reduce the mortality of patients with TVP is strict adherence to clinical recommendations, active preventive measures, diagnosis and treatment of chronic diseases.