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ORIGINAL ARTICLE • Epidemiol. Serv. Saúde 26 (3) • Jul-Sep 2017 • https://doi.org/10.5123/S1679-49742017000300012   copy

Descriptive study of hospital care on toxicological events in a municipality of São Paulo State, Brazil, 2012* * This paper is part of Lucas Coraça Germano’s Master’s thesis, entitled ‘Avaliação epidemiológica dos atendimentos por exposição e intoxicação em um hospital público do interior do estado de São Paulo’, and defended to the Post-graduation Program in Collective Health of the State University of Campinas, in 2015.

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Abstract

OBJECTIVE:

to describe the epidemiological profile of hospital care on chemical exposure cases and accidents with venomous animals performed in a municipal hospital in São Paulo State, Brazil.

METHODS:

case series descriptive study with data of medical records from the emergency department of the Municipal Hospital of Itapira-SP, in 2012.

RESULTS:

out of 3,184 medical cases due to toxicological events (3.3% of total), the exposures to drugs of abuse (58.1%) and accidents with venomous animals (15.8%) stood out; most individuals were male (68.6%), in the age group from 20 to 59 years (74.6%); according to the medical records, 18 cases had been reported to the Information System for Notifiable Diseases (Sinan), however 249 cases were found on Sinan online.

CONCLUSION:

the health care profile was characterized by the predominance of exposure to drugs of abuse and accidents with venomous animals in a young adult population; most cases was not notified to Sinan, which may lead to an insufficient acknowledgement on this problem.

Keywords:
Poisoning; Substance-Related Disorders; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Emergency; Medical Service; Descriptive Epidemiology

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