Perfil clínico-epidemiológico dos pacientes vítimas de acidentes ofídicos no município de Cacoal, Rondônia, Brasil, no período de 2009 a 2013 / Clinical-epidemiological profile of patients victims of ophidian accidents in the municipality of Cacoal, Rondônia, Brazil, from 2009 to 2013
Em 2009, o Brasil registrou, aproximadamente, 27.665 acidentes ofídicos, a maioria deles nas regiões Norte e Centro Oeste.
Objetivo:
Traçar o perfil clínico-epidemiológico dos pacientes vítimas de acidentes ofídicos atendidos no Pronto Socorro do município de Cacoal, Rondônia, no período de 2009 a 2013.
Método:
Trata-se de um estudo descritivo, quantitativo de caráter transversal, do tipo documental retrospectivo.
In 2009 Brazil registered about 27,665 ophidian accidents, most of them in the North and Midwest.
Objective:
The objective of this study was to outline the clinical and epidemiological profile of the victims of ophidian accidents treated at the Emergency Room of the municipality of Cacoal, Rondonia, from 2009 to 2013.
Method:
This is a descriptive, quantitative cross-sectional study of the retrospective documentary type.
Results:
The total number of accidents in the period studied amounts to 91 cases. There was a predominance of these accidents in menwho lived in rural areas between the ages of 11 and 50 years.