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Acta ortop. bras ; 16(5): 261-265, 2008. tab
Article in English, Portuguese | LILACS | ID: lil-498104

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INTRODUÇÃO: A realização deste trabalho foi motivada pela escassez de artigos encontrados na literatura que estudam o politrauma na infância e na adolescência.. O objetivo é descrever o perfil epidemiológico das lesões traumáticas na infância tratadas num centro de trauma, avaliar os aspectos econômicos relacionados com o gasto hospitalar e o tempo de internação de acordo com o tratamento realizado. MATERIAIS E MÉTODOS: analisamos todos os prontuários do hospital Geral de Pirajussara no período de dezembro de 2005 a dezembro de 2006. Obtivemos 182 pacientes, sendo 71 por cento do sexo masculino e 29 por cento do feminino; 48 por cento brancos e 52 por cento não brancos. RESULTADOS: houve predominância dos indivíduos do sexo masculino com 71 por cento dos pacientes. O mecanismo de trauma mais freqüente foi a queda (36 por cento). A média de dias de internação foi 4,1 dias, com gasto estimado de R$ 649,50 para cada paciente. A taxa de mortalidade foi de 2,74 por cento, sendo o traumatismo crânio-encefálico responsável por 80 por cento da mortalidade e os maus tratos presentes em 40 por cento dos óbitos. CONCLUSÃO: a população pediátrica tem particularidades que a tornam distinta da população adulta em relação à epidemiologia e manejo das lesões.


INTRODUCTION: the motivation to conduct this study was the reduced number of articles in literature correlating multiple trauma in childhood and infancy. The objective here was to describe the epidemiological profile of traumatic injuries treated in a trauma center, evaluating the economic aspects associated with hospitalized patients' costs and the period of hospital stay according to the treatment provided. MATERIAL AND METHODS: we assessed all Pirajussara Hospital patients' files in the period of December of 2005 to December 2006. We selected 182 patients, 129 (71 percent) males and 53 (29 percent) females; 88 (48 percent) Caucasian and 94 (52 percent) non-Caucasian children. RESULTS: male patients were prevalent, with 129 (71 percent) cases. The most frequent trauma mechanism was fall (36 percent) and the primary diagnose was humeral supracondylar fracture (20,9 percent) and 47 (25,82 percent) associated lesions. The mean hospitalization time was 4.1 days with an estimated cost of R$ 649.50 for each patient. The most expensive and the longest periods of hospital therapy were associated to skull trauma and femoral fracture; the economic impact increased when associated lesions were present. The mortality rate was 2.74 percent with 5 deaths, with skull trauma being accounted for 80 percent of the deaths, while child abuse accounts for 40 percent. CONCLUSION: the pediatric population exhibits particular characteristics that make it unique concerning trauma injuries' epidemiology and handling.


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Humans , Male , Female , Infant , Child, Preschool , Child , Adolescent , Accidental Falls , Craniocerebral Trauma , Wounds and Injuries/complications , Wounds and Injuries/economics , Wounds and Injuries/epidemiology , Fractures, Bone/complications , Fractures, Bone/economics , Fractures, Bone/epidemiology , Hospitalization , Brazil , Hospitals, Public , Retrospective Studies , Length of Stay/economics
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