Epidemiology of Accidents With Fracture In Childhood: The Portrait of a Municipality Of The Brazilian Amazon

• Autor(a) principal: de Sousa, Gutembergue Santos
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Bezerra de Sousa, Lirian Raquel, Silva Ferreira, Maria Goreth
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Gestão & Saúde (Brasília)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/rgs/article/view/23322
• topic: Fratura. Criança. Ortopedia. Traumatologia. Epidemiologia.; Fracture; Child; Orthopedics; Traumatology; Epidemiology.

Traumatic injuries in orthopedics and traumatology are the most important cause of death in children over one year of age worldwide and the second leading cause of hospitalization in individuals under 15 yearsof age. Thus, this study aims to raise the epidemiological characteristics of children treated with fractures in pediatric hospitalization at the Municipal Hospital of Santarém-Pa. This is a cross-sectional, retrospective study, carried out by means of medical records, with a population of 183 children aged 0 to 12 years admitted to the Municipal Hospital of Santarém-Pa with orthopedic trauma during the year 2013. It was evidenced 69% of the patients were males, aged between 5 and 9 years (46.45%). Children living in Santarém accounted for 69.95%. Closed fractures accounted for 78%, with urgent hospitalization in 90% of the cases, with the accident due to fall as the underlying cause in 49.17%. In cases where the basic cause were traffic accidents (9.29%), these were by motorcycles in 52.94% of the cases. In view of this, it is concluded that hospitalized children have characteristics similar to those described in the literature, being predominant the fractures in male andschool-aged children.