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- Title
Caracterização de atendimentos do serviço pré-hospitalar móvel de urgência: follow up 14 anos (2005-2018).
- Authors
Sampaio da Costa, Simone; Gonçalves Boaventura, Vinicius; Cordeiro de Souza, Anselmo; Ferreira Porto, Elias
- Abstract
Knowing the profile of the assistance provided to a given population can assist in the definition of public health policies for the territory. This study aims to characterize the profile of calls made by the mobile emergency service in the city of Palmas, state of Tocantins, Brazil. It is about a retrospective, descriptive and quantitative research of the occurrences attended by the emergency mobile service of this city between 2005 and 2018. In the surveyed period there were 222,278 regulated attendances, 141,944 occurrences, 30,566 occurrences of hazing and 47,757 orientations (telemedicine). There were 124,575 occurrences with the sending of mobile units, of which 12,746 (10%) served by advanced service units, and 77,750 (62%) served by basic service units. Regarding the nature 72,080 (44.3%) occurrences did not report, 53,795 (33.1%) were records of a clinical nature, 22,710 (13.9%) visits due to external (traumatic) causes, 8,787 (5.4%) cases gynecological-obstetric and 5,119 (3.1%) psychiatric. It is concluded that the attendance profile is of a clinical nature, with an increasing number of regulated attendances and a high number of prank calls.
- Publication
Saúde e Pesquisa, 2021, Vol 14, Issue 3, p655
- ISSN
1983-1870
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.17765/2176-9206.2021v14n3e9440