A study of clinical profile and factors associated with community acquired pneumonia at tertiary health care center
Journal Title: Medpulse International Journal of Medicine - Year 2019, Vol 10, Issue 1
Abstract
Background: Pneumonia is one most prevalent disease among the community with greater lost as man work days Aims and Objectives: study clinical profile and factors associated with Community acquired pneumonia at tertiary health care center. Methodology: This was a cross-sectional study carried out in the patients who were admitted to the department of General medicine with community acquired pneumonia(CAP) at tertiary health care centre during the one year period i.e. March 2017 to March 2018 . In the one year there were 56 patients with CAP were admitted with written and explained consent. All details of the patients like, age, sex, common symptoms and signs and associated morbidities if any were noted. The data was entered to excel sheet and analyzed by excel software for windows 10. Result: The majority of the patients were in the age group of >60were 30.36%; followed by 50-60 were 26.79%; 40-50 were 23.21%, 30-40 were 12.50%; 20-30 were 7.14%The majority of the patients were Male i.e. 62.50% and female were 37.50.The most common Symptoms were Chest pain with breathing were 87.50%; followed by Fatigue in 83.93%; Cough with expectoration were 80.36%; Confusion in 57.14%; Fever with chills in 44.64%; Shortness of breath In 33.93%. The most common Signs were Fever in 94.64%; followed by Crepitation in 87.50%; Pleuritic chest pain in 76.79%; Dyspnoea in 57.14%; Cyanosis in 23.21%; Haemoptysis in 12.50. The most common co-morbidities conditions were Diabetes in 37.50%; followed by Alcohol abuse-35.71; in H/o Smoking in 33.93; Old age in 30.36; K/c/o CVD in 23.21%; H/o CRF in 16.07%; H/o Immuno-compromised disease in 8.93. Conclusion: It can be concluded from our study that the majority of the patients were in the age group of >60, majority of the patients were male i.e. 62.21% the most common Symptoms were Chest pain with breathing followed by Fatigue, Cough with expectoration, Confusion, Fever with chills. The most common Signs were Fever followed by Crepitation. The most common co-morbidities conditions were Diabetes followed by Alcohol abuse H/o Smoking; Old age K/c/o CVD; H/o CRF; H/o Immuno-compromised disease etc.
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Goldee Khurana, Joginder Singh
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