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- Title
Characterization of traffic accidents attended by a mobile urgency care service.
- Authors
Tayse de Lima Gomes, Andréa; da Fonseca Silva, Micheline; da Silva Dantas, Bruno Araújo; Neves Dantas, Rodrigo Assis; Oliveira de Mendonça, Ana Elza; de Vasconcelos Torres, Gilson
- Abstract
Objective: characterizing the traffic accidents attended by the mobile urgency care service of Rio Grande do Norte. Method: a descriptive, exploratory research of a quantitative approach performed in a Service Mobile Urgency Care. Results: the sample consisted of 1.353 chips of attendance from January to June 2014. Stood out the male gender (78,0%), aged between 25 and 34 years old (29,9%). The highest number was in the weekend (53,9%), during the evening (25,9%) and the most recurrent type of collision was falling motorcycle (35,8%). The excoriations were the injuries most common (28,7%) and multiple traumas occurred in 34,1% of the victims. Conclusion: it is significant the importance of ongoing education of health professionals, because, how much faster and qualified the first assistance, the better the chances of a good prognosis.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; EMERGENCY medical services; EMERGENCY medicine; RESEARCH methodology; PATIENTS; RESEARCH; TIME; TRAFFIC accidents; WOUNDS &; injuries; BRUISES; QUANTITATIVE research; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Revista de Pesquisa: Cuidado é Fundamental, 2016, Vol 8, Issue 2, p4269
- ISSN
1809-6107
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.9789/2175-5361.2016.v8i2.4269-4279