Lesiones de causa externa en menores y mayores de 18 años en un hospital colombiano

Bejarano, Mónica; Rendón, Luis Fernando

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“…Conversely, Latin America lacks reporting of emergency trauma visits, which are the most frequent events in the region 8 . The most similar report concerns the trauma registry completed from 2002 to 2004 in San Fernando General Hospital of Trinidad and Tobago 9 . In Colombia, strategies have been developed to monitor externally inflicted wounds from which the pertinent variables related to the history of these wounds can be cataloged 10 .…”

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Registro de Trauma de la Sociedad Panamericana de Trauma: Un año de experiencia en dos hospitales de en el suroccidente colombiano

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Background: Emergency care information systems in trauma are essential to improve the decision making and identify potential areas of intervention. Objective: To describe the first year of experience of trauma registry in two reference trauma centers of the southwestern Colombia. Methods: A study conducted in two reference trauma centers of Cali city. There were included those patients with any injury from external causes or trauma occurred between January 1st and December 31st of 2012. Information related with demographics, injury mechanism, severity injury (ISS) and mortality were collected. We presented a descriptive analysis. Results: There were registered 17,431 patients whereof 67.8% were male with a mean of 30 (±20) years old. Workplace injuries were the 28.2% cause of emergency consultation, and falls were the most prevalent trauma mechanism. Majority of patients with a ISS ≥15 were in a range age of 18-35 years (6.4%). The 28% of patients with gunshot wounds had a ISS ≥15. An overall of 2.5% of included patients died and those who had a ISS ≥15 and gunshot wounds showed a mortality of 54%. Conclusion: Upon the implementation of the trauma registry in two main hospitals of Cali city, we identify that falls and workplace injuries were the leading cause of admission to the emergency room. Severely compromised patients are in the range age of 18-35 years old. Mortality was higher for those patients who suffered gunshot wounds.

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“…However, there is agreement on the fact that male patients (15-34 years) are more prone to suffer ECIs and that traffic accidents demand higher use of hospitalization services. 1,3,20 In this ECI group it was also found that it is common for patients to be referred by a state health services unit and to require pre-hospital care, which can be indicative of the severity of injuries. The characteristics shown by the cluster analysis include the anatomical regions involved, place of occurrence, destination after care and patients' age and gender, among others.…”

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“…The groups formed using this tool can be appreciated to be similar to those proposed by Ávila-Burgos et al 1 and that the results are consistent with those reported in other studies. [1][2][3]19,20 This type of techniques provide additional information on the structure of the groups and the behavior of included variables.…”

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“…1,2 They are also responsible of death and disability, in addition to representing a high cost for society, patients and institutions. [1][2][3][4] Motor vehicle accidents-derived ECIs are highly relevant. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates they represent the leading cause of death among young people of 15 to 29 years of age.…”

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“…Intentional injuries were also shown to account for 24.5 % of total cases attended to. 3 In Mexico, ECIs are among the 10 leading causes of death. Only regarding transport accidents, the report on the road safety 18 situation indicates that in 2014 there were 15 886 deaths within the national territory; in addition, 2012 National Public Health and Nutrition Survey (ENSANUT -Encuesta Nacional de Salud Pública y Nutrición) 9 data show that 320 496 people were hospitalized in 2011 with injuries caused by traffic accidents, which accounts for 7.2 % of total hospitalizations that year.…”

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External cause injuries in the emergency department of a hospital over a five-year perio

Consuelo-Estrada¹,

Valle²,

Portillo-Rodríguez³

2023

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Background: In the State of Mexico there are no investigations that provide information for decision-making and administration of resources related to the care of externally-caused injuries (ECI). Objective: To describe ECIs seen in an emergency department over a 5-year period. Method: A retrospective study was designed with patients admitted to emergency department (2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015) with ECI diagnosis. Descriptive and cluster analyses were performed. Results: At the emergency department, 16.59% of emergency care was related to ECI. A total of 16,567 patients of 14 to 99 years of age (average = 37.7; SD = 17.28) were included; 69.2% were males. ECIs occurred mainly in public places (26.3%) and at home (23.7%). The main causes were aggression outside the home (32.7%), on average at 34 years of age, falls (25%) on average at 45 years, and motor vehicle accidents (9.7%) on average at 33 years. The cluster analysis identified four groups: aggression outside the home 32.7% (5,417), traumatic contacts, 26.30% (4,363), road traffic accidents 15.9% (2,640) and falls 25% (4,147). Conclusions: Motor vehicle accident-related ECIs showed the most severe consequences.

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Epidemiologia dos traumas em países desenvolvidos e em desenvolvimento

Imamura¹

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Objective: Report on the mortality rate of children and youths due to nonintentional external causes disclosed in the world medical literature, with analysis of the principal non-intentional external deadly causes and identification of differences related to the external causes of death in countries with different economic and social performances. Method: This was a systematic review of the literature on mortality from accidental injury in children and adolescents. We searched the PubMed, Latin-American and Caribbean Health Sciences Literature, and Excerpta Medica databases for articles published between July of 2001 and June of 2011. National data from official agencies, retrieved by hand searches, were also reviewed. Results: We reviewed 15 journal articles and 1 book, as well as 2010 statistical data from the Brazilian National Ministry of Health Mortality Database. Most of the data relate to countries with high economic and social performance, with predominance of countries with high and middle economic income and very high economic development rates. Deaths due to external causes were primarily the result of non-intentional causes. There was a predominance of transportation accidents as the principal cause of death in the countries surveyed, especially as from preschool age. Accidental drowning and submersion rank second, followed by falls, burns and poisoning. The highest rates of death from non-intentional external causes by age grade were observed in children below 1 year old, principally due to accidental threats to breathing, excluding drowning and submersion. A significant number of deaths due to undetermined external causes was also identified. This situation was also registered in Brazil, and nearly half of all childhood deaths from traffic accidents occurred at the scene. Conclusions: Traffic accidents were found to constitute the leading external cause of accidental death among children in the countries under study, principally among those of preschool age or older. Infants were found to be particularly vulnerable to accidental non-drowning threats to breathing. A detailed investigation about deaths due to external causes must be considered in order to reduce the number of deaths due to undetermined causes. Further studies investigating the occurrence of accidental deaths in countries with low social and economic development are needed in order to improve the understanding of these preventable events.

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Lesiones de causa externa en menores y mayores de 18 años en un hospital colombiano

Cited by 7 publications

References 15 publications

Registro de Trauma de la Sociedad Panamericana de Trauma: Un año de experiencia en dos hospitales de en el suroccidente colombiano

Registro de Trauma de la Sociedad Panamericana de Trauma: Un año de experiencia en dos hospitales de en el suroccidente colombiano

External cause injuries in the emergency department of a hospital over a five-year perio

Epidemiologia dos traumas em países desenvolvidos e em desenvolvimento

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