TITULO: Cetoacidosis Diabética como causa de ingreso en UTIPP TITLE: Ketoacidosis Diabetic as cause of entrance in UTIPP AUTORES:

It was carried out descriptive study with the objective of describing the behavior of the revenues for diabetic cetoacidosis in adolescents in the unit of pediatric polyvalent intensive therapy (UTIPP) of Camaguey, from January of 1999 until December of the 2003 it is given that the diabetic adolescent presents problems and characteristic in her behavior that you/they make it markedly different from the boy and the diabetic adult and the adolescent's diabetes is generally considered "unstable" given its frequent hypoglycemia episodes and cetoacidosis The universe was integrated by 54 patients that entered for this cause, which were obtained of the book of receipts and payments and of the revision of clinical histories; the data were processed in microstat. It was obtained as results that the most affected group of ages was that of 10-14 years with 62.96%, the feminist with 57.40% prevailed, the most affected year the 1999 with 17 patients for 31.48% with a significant decrease in