Incidência de acidentes com crianças em um pronto-socorro infantil

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Introduction - Although the concern with accidents occurred in childhood is not recent, its concepts only began to be incorporated into the medical literature since 1970. The home environment is defined as the main place of occurrence of injuries, given that it is where the child stays most of the time. Currently, physical injuries, both intentional or not, are considered to be susceptible of prevention. The accidents occurred in childhood have a large representation as cause of morbimortality, being, thus, a great problem of public health. The objective of this study was to identifying the highest incidence accident, as well as the predominant gender and age. Material and Method - It is a retrospective, descriptive and data documental research through the Emergency Attendance Bulletin (EAB). Results - Were analyzed 671 EAB's, on which it was observed that the incidence of injuries is higher in children from 7 to 11 years old. However, smaller children suffer more falls than the older ones, whose main cause are falls from their own height, followed by transport accidents and poisoning, predominating the male gender. Most of the children were assisted and sent home. Conclusion - Injuries in childhood often occur and preventive actions are necessary to the family, children, health professionals and society. Therefore, preventing is the best strategy to reduce children's accidents.