Keywords
epidemiology
trauma severity indexes
emergency treatment
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Abstract
Systematic notification of trauma patients who were victims of transportation accidents in the region of Ribeirão Preto, in the State of São Paulo, is performed, since 1996, by the Epidemiological Surveillance Nucleus of the University Hospital (Hospital das Clínicas) of the Medicine College of Ribeirão Preto, of the University of São Paulo. In 2004, all external death causes started to be notified, and trauma severity levels were introduced, rated as RTS, ISS AND TRISS, along with other hospital guidelines. This study allows complete characterization of patients and traumas that occurred in the years of 2006 and 2007, employing demographic data from patients admitted and local in which the cases occurred; occurrence frequency of the different trauma mechanisms; definition of trauma severity employing the TS, ISS AND TRISS rates; need for surgery and which were the most frequent medical specialties employed; lethality rates, place, death cause and kind of pre-hospital admission transportation in which patients were taken to the hospital.
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