Duration and Mortality Characteristics of Patients with Cerebral Tumors Treated in the Intensive Care Unit of Sanglah General Hospital from January to December 2017

BACKGROUND: The incidence and survival rates of cerebral tumor patients are increasing, along with advances in medical technology. Severe complications, such as multiorgan failure in patients, cause the need for intensive care to improve. The effectiveness of intensive care in tumor patients is still controversial, considering that patients included in low and vulnerable performance status. Patients with cerebral tumors also require intensive care either before or after effective action. The controversy of economic and ethical issues still places aggressive action in intensive care on oncology patients. It is necessary to identify and know the characteristics of tumor patients that are useful in intensive management. AIM: The purpose of this study was to determine the demographic characteristics, length of stay, complications, and mortality rates of cerebral tumor patients undergoing intensive care at Sanglah Hospital Denpasar, the period January–December 2017. METHODS: This study is a cross-sectional descriptive where all sample data collection is secondarily based on existing medical records. The sample population in this study were cerebral tumor patients treated in the intensive care ward Sanglah period January–December 2017 who met the inclusion criteria. RESULTS: In the study, it found that 54 patients with the highest number of cerebral tumors treated in the intense sex with women (64.85%) and middle-aged adults (41–60 years) were 31 patients (57.4%). Most diagnoses of cerebral tumors were 39 non-glioma tumors (72.2%) followed by glioma tumors (20.4%) and tumor metastases (7.4%). Non-glioma tumors noted were meningiomas of around 48.1%, followed by glioblastoma multiforme tumors of 9.3%, tumors at the cerebellopontine angle and tumor metastases of 7.4%, respectively. All patients were treated intensively after receiving surgical therapy with a Karnofsky 50 score of about 29 patients (53.7%). All patients came out alive, and there were no recorded complications during treatment with the maximum length of stay of patients in the intensive care unit for up to 3 days by 45 patients (83.3%). CONCLUSION: The most brain tumor cases are meningioma, which occurred in women, middle-aged adults with no mortality and complications within 3 days during treatment intensive care.