Analise de descritiva e comparativa dos dados de internação hospitalar de vítimas de acidentes envolvendo ciclomotores em sobral-ceará, nos anos de 2010 e 2014

Abstract

The motorcycle is the means of transportation that predominates in smaller Brazilian cities and is related to high rates of traffic accidents, considered a serious public health problem. In this study, we describe the epidemiological characteristics and present an economic impact in the hospital care of victims of accidents involving motorcycles attended at the hospital of reference in trauma of Sobral-Ceará, reference for 55 cities, with an estimated population of 1,700,000 people. The data for 2010 and 2014 were compared. For this, the sample was represented by 200 medical records, 100 for each year of the study. It is a quantitative, crosssectional and retrospective study. The data revealed young male adults as the main victim -92% in 2010 and 84% in 2014. The area where patients stayed longer was the medical clinic. Traumatic Brain Injury was the most prevalent diagnosis of hospitalization - 38% in 2010 and 20% in 2014, which resulted in death and higher hospital costs. The total values of hospital costs in 2014 surpassed those of 2010 by more than 93%. In that same year, the hospital cost (R$ 209,842.60) with treatment of patients with head injury exceeded the total cost in 2010 (R$ 182,139.60). Our results show the dizzying increase in the number of accidents. The data indicate the need to strengthen public policies, centralized in the prevention of traffic accidents involving motorcycles, that awaken within the population the responsibility of each citizen for the effective combat to this serious problem that has harvested lives and generated high costs for the SUS.