Abstract:Objective: To analyze mortality, survival and prognostic factors of patients with AIDS in Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Method: Retrospective cohort study with a sample of 202 patients with AIDS in ICU, whose sociodemographic, epidemiological, and clinical characteristics were obtained from medical records and assessed. Results: Patients were mostly male (73.8%) and drug users (59.4%), with no regular health follow-up (61.4%) and no adherence to antiretrovirals (40.6%), presenting low CD4+ T lymphocyte count (9… Show more
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