TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1993//
TI  - Traffic accidents in a metropolitan area of southern Brazil--victim and lesion characterization
JO  - Revista de saude publica
A1  - Ott, E. A.
A1  - Favaretto, A. L.
A1  - Neto, A. F.
A1  - Zechin, J. G.
A1  - Bordin, R.
SP  - 350
EP  - 356
VL  - 27
IS  - 5
N2  - Casualties treated in a Emergency Hospital of Porto Alegre, Brazil, during the year 1988, for injuries received as a result of traffic accidents, are described by means of a retrospective study of the data provided by the Documentation and Statistics Sector of the hospital (n = 6.099). The results, similar to those described in the literature, draw special attention to the predominance of the male sex (69.2%), to the concentration of accidents involving individuals of between 20 and 39 years of age, inclusive, (52%) and to the frequency which the head is injured (49.6%) of the patients. Severe injuries such as bruises and fractures were found, respectively, in 61.5% and 24.2% of the patients. The data reveal, further, the large number and the seriousness of the injuries caused by accidents involving pedestrians which accounted for 32.7% of the total number of attendances related to traffic accidents, 57.2% of hospital internments; 54.6% of the victims of this kind of accident were under 9 years of age and 42.8% were over 60.<p />  <p>Language: pt</p>
LA  - pt
SN  - 0034-8910
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -