Abstract

Introduction: Respiratory diseases are reportedly the major forefront runner in causing the morbidity and mortality globally thus imposing great global health burden. , the present study was undertaken to assess the spectrum of pulmonary disease affecting the persons admitted to respiratory intensive care unit.
Materials and Methodology: For the study purpose, 120 subjects with various respiratory illnesses who were admitted in RICU were included. A written informed consent was obtained from all the study participants after briefly explaining the study protocols to the study subjects. Complete demographic detail for each of the study participants that include past medical and surgical history, family history, as well as history of present illness. The statistical analysis of the data was done using SPSS version 11.0 for windows.
Results: The age of participating patients ranged between 32 to 72 years. The number of male subjects was 76 and number of female subjects was 44. The lowest number of patients were seen with Bronchiectasis (n=8). The results on comparing were found to be statistically non-significant. (p>0.05)
Conclusion: This study provided enough support to show that bronchial asthma, pulmonary tuberculosis, COPD are considered to the most common and frequent nosocomial infections among those patients admitted in RICU. But future research are needed to be carried forward the study in a nurturing manner for the betterment