%0 Journal Article
%T V¨ªtimas de acidentes de transito na faixa et¨¢ria pedi¨¢trica atendidas em um hospital universit¨¢rio: aspectos epidemiol¨®gicos e cl¨ªnicos
%A Feitas
%A Juliana Pontes Pinto
%A Ribeiro
%A Lindioneza Adriano
%A Jorge
%A Miguel Tan¨²s
%J Cadernos de Sa¨²de P¨²blica
%D 2007
%I Escola Nacional de Sa¨²de P¨²blica, Funda??o Oswaldo Cruz
%R 10.1590/S0102-311X2007001200028
%X this study analyzes epidemiological and clinic characteristics of victims of traffic accidents. data were obtained from medical records of children under 15 years of age (n = 1,123) admitted to a university hospital in uberlandia, minas gerais state, brazil, from 1999 to 2003. mean age was eight years, 65.7% were boys, 76.6% were cyclists or pedestrians, 45.9% suffered head injuries, and 9% remained in hospital for more than two weeks. fourteen (1.2%) died, 78.6% of these within 48 hours of hospitalization, and 85.7% with brain injuries. among the passengers of motorcycles and larger vehicles, 58.8% were not using security devices properly at the time of the accident. among the cyclists, 61% suffered isolated limb injuries. meanwhile, pedestrians tended to suffer multiple lesions (57.5%) and be admitted to intensive care (7.1%), and represented 66.7% of the deaths. epidemiological data on pediatric traffic victims can be useful for accident prevention programs.
%K traffic accident
%K hospital care
%K child.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0102-311X2007001200028&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en