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

Authors

  • Gutembergue Santos de Sousa Secretaria Municipal de Saúde de Canaã dos Carajás-Pará
  • Lirian Raquel Bezerra de Sousa Secretaria de Estado de Saúde do Amazonas
  • Maria Goreth Silva Ferreira Universidade do Estado do Pará

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26512/gs.v0i0.23322

Keywords:

Fracture; Child; Orthopedics; Traumatology; Epidemiology.

Abstract

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 years
of 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 and
school-aged children.

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Author Biographies

Gutembergue Santos de Sousa, Secretaria Municipal de Saúde de Canaã dos Carajás-Pará

Especialista em Auditoria em Serviços de Saúde pela PUC-Go;

Especialista em Ortopedia e Traumatologia pela UEPA;

Mestre em Saúde na Amazônia pelo NMT/UFPA;

Lirian Raquel Bezerra de Sousa, Secretaria de Estado de Saúde do Amazonas

Enfermeira; Especialista em Ortopedia e Traumatologia (UEPA)

Maria Goreth Silva Ferreira, Universidade do Estado do Pará

Enfermeira; Doutora em Enfermagem (EEAN/UFRJ); Professora Adjunta da Universidade do Estado do Pará, Campus XII, Santarém-Pará/Brasil

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Published

2019-08-14

How to Cite

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de Sousa GS, Bezerra de Sousa LR, Silva Ferreira MG. Epidemiology of Accidents With Fracture In Childhood: The Portrait of a Municipality Of The Brazilian Amazon. Rev. G&S [Internet]. 2019 Aug. 14 [cited 2024 Dec. 20];:68-80. Available from: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/rgs/article/view/23322

Issue

Edição Especial 2019

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Artigos Originais

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