Perfil epidemiológico das vítimas dos acidentes de transporte, registrados nos serviços sentinelas da rede VIVA no município de Cuiabá, 2011

Abstract

Road accidents in are characterized as an important factor of mortality, however, the victims of small lesions, are also responsible for a large demand on emergency care services. Objective: To describe the epidemiological profile of victims of traffic accidents in Cuiabá attended at sentinel urgency and emergency services Surveillance System for Violence and Accidents (VIVA) in 2011 Method: This is a descriptive, cross-sectional study. We analyzed the 241 victims of traffic accidents reported by the VIVA Project of Cuiabá in the year 2011. For data processing Microsoft Office Excel 2007 software was used. Absolute and relative frequencies were calculated, also the sex ratio. Results: Among the victims treated in the units selected in Cuiabá, transportation accidents highlighted in number of visits (32.1%), and mostly the victims were men (71.4%), young (59 %), the black skin color (76.3%), with 9-11 years of education (42.7%) and reached the hospital in private vehicles (48.5%). Among the features of the occurrences prevailed drivers (72.0%), motorcyclists (73.0%), accidents occurring on Sunday (21.2%), during the Afternoon (33.2%) period, and on public roads (95.9%). In most accidents the other party involved were cars (38.6%) and drivers had no suspicion of alcohol use (87.6%). Work accidents accounted for 28.6% of cases, most said to be using the helmet (82.8%) and non-use of seat belts (55.0%). About lesion characteristics/evolution, prevailed with those cuts/lacerations (37.8%), with the upper and lower limbs most affected (57.5%) and 68.5% were discharged after the treatment. Discussion and Conclusion: We observed that among all external causes, transport accidents account for the large majority among them, stood out motorcyclists. Young people played an important part of the victims. In relation to alcohol, although there were few victims suspected of using, the male stood out in this category. Lesions of low severity were the most prevalent, a result that might have corroborated for large high prevalence of the sudden end of treatment. It was observed then that the VIVA Project provides important informations for the analysis and identification of the most susceptible victims of traffic accidents, enabling the identification of some risk factors, thus creating proposals for formulating actions to prevent such incidents which may decrease the number of accidents and consequently deaths and hospitalizations.