Estudo epidemiológico de queimaduras pediátricas atendidas no Hospital de Urgências de Sergipe entre 2010 e 2012

Abstract

Objective: To describe the epimiological profile of the pediatric patients hospitalized in the Hospital de Urgencias de Sergipe, due to burn trauma, from January 2010 until December 2012. Methods: Epidemiological, retrospective and quantitative study with patients admitted to the Hospital de Urgências de Sergipe from January 2010 to December 2012. Were considered: sex, age, origin, occurrence month, causes, depth of injury, body part affected, extent, severity, length of stay, hospital output type and type of complications. Results: There was a higher incidence among male children (62.8%) and the most affected age group was between 1 and 4 years of age (71.5%). 31.4% were from the capital of the State, Aracaju. June and July presented the higher numbers of occurences, above the year average. The main cause of burns was heat by scald (75.3%). The second degree burns only stood out (83.7%) and multiple body parts were envolved in most cases (68.1%). 44.8% had only 10 to 25% of body surface burnt (BSB%), and only 3.8% had 50 to 100% of BSB%. Among the victims, 51.7% were classified as medium burnt and the hospitalization lasted less than seven days in 51.4%. 29.9% of the patients had complications due to the trauma. Conclusion: Younger children were more susceptible to this type of trauma, specially involving domestic accidents. The results point to the need for prevention strategies close to the families in order to reduce the number of children that suffer burn trauma and the spendings on health services due to them.