Caracterização dos acidentes de trânsito atendidos pelo serviço de atendimento móvel de urgência

• Autor(a) principal: Dias, Lívia Karla Sales
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Vasconcelos, Amanda Maria Braga, Bezerra, William Maax Tavares, Albuquerque, Izabelle Mont'Alverne Napoleão, Lira, Geison Vasconcelos, Pierre, Lorena Pereira da Ponte
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)
• Texto Completo: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/35611
• topic: Serviços Médicos de Emergência; Acidentes de Trânsito; Mapeamento Geográfico

The traffic violence involves millions of people, it becomes a great public health problem, taking the young people´s lives away and it´s responsible for high expenses in Health. Many health services are involved in the assistance of the traffic injured people, among them, The Mobile Emergency Medical Services which provides first-line treatment to the these ones, helping them to minimize their permanent physical injuries. Objective study characterize the profile and geolocation of traffic accidents attended by the Mobile Emergency Medical Services in the year of 2014, in the urban area of the city of Sobral - CE. Across-sectional and epidemiological study, with information being extracted from the service records and mapping the regions of the accidents using the software QGis 2.14. As inclusion criteria, the files that had the cause of the call to the rescue were analyzed: “traffic accident”, “trampling”, “motorcycle accident”, “bicycle accident”, “collision”, “rollover”, attended during the Year of 2014. As an exclusion criterion, those containing the C-34 code that characterized the “removal of the victim by unknown persons” were withdrawn and those that occurred outside the city’s urban perimeter. There were 935 traffic accidents, with the main victims being Young people between 21 and 30 years old (36.46%), males (68%), motorcycle crashes (37%), and weekends late night (18.5%). The most affected districts by accidents were: Centro, Junco and Sinhá Sabóia. It is concluded that the improvement of roads, increasing inspections and raising awareness of the population, helps to reduce high accident rates.