ABSTRACT
This study aimed to analyze the profile of urgent and emergency attendances resulting from domestic accidents caused by inanimate mechanical forces in the child and juvenile population. It is a transversal study with retrospective data collection. Records of attendance resulting from domestic accidents caused by inanimate mechanical forces, among people aged up to 24 years old, attended in a public center of excellence in urgent and emergency care during 2013, were analyzed. A total of 526 accidents were studied. Among the victims, there is a prevalence of males (56.1%) and an age range from 1 to 4 years old (47.9%). The most frequent accident was penetration of a foreign body in a natural orifice, the highest proportion being among children aged from 1 to 4 years old (71.0%). A wide variety of accidents caused by inanimate mechanical forces in the domestic environment was evidenced, as was the presence of immediate physical sequelae in 0.8% of the victims. Emphasis is placed on the importance of implementing preventive measures, the only means of reducing this event, the lesions and the resulting sequelae.
DESCRIPTORS:
Foreign bodies. Child. Adolescent. Young adult. Accidents; home.