Objectives: 1) to evaluate the incidence of fractures in children and adolescents in an universitarian hospital 2) to quantify the incidence based on age, sex gender, type of accident, anatomic location, association with other lesions, and treatment. 3) according to the type of fracture,to determine the adequacy of the treatment and training protocols, either for graduation or medical residency training in our medical services. Methods: a transversal prospective observational study. The medical records from 543 patients were analysed, aging one day to 19 years old, treated in a period of three months in our institutions, three different university hospitals, with a special protocol to determine the characteristics of the fractures in this series. Results: 531 fractures (isolated) were analysed along with 12 dislocations,394 (72.5%) male and 149 (27.4%) female. The age ranged from one day to 19 years old. The most frequent etiology of those episodes was “fall from own height”, followed by “fall from height” which refers to a more severe trauma. The upper limbs were most affected, with 404 fractures and eleven dislocations (six in the elbows, five in the shoulder) combining for 76.08% of all fractures against 127 fractures (combining for 23.91% of all) in the lower limbs. In the casuistic is included two vertebral fractures (coccix) and one nasal fracture. Conclusions: the first obvious observation would concern the need of a directed prevention program, especially for the male teenagers, emphasizing the upper limbs. As of teaching programs and studies, it would be recommendable that the treatment of upper limbs trauma should be emphasized,in all of its segments.
Bone Fractures; Traumatology; Child; Adolescent
