Sazonalidade e características dos traumas bucomaxilofaciais em um hospital de referência.

Abstract

The bucomaxillofacial traumas constitute a public health problem since, they affect indiscriminately the life of the population. This cross - sectional study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of buccomaxillofacial traumas according to the year, months, days, hours and affected areas of patients attended by a Buccomaxillofacial Traumatology Service, Deputy Janduhy Carneiro Hospital, in the city of Patos, in the Sertão of Paraíba. This cross - sectional study had an inductive approach with comparative statistical procedure and research technique by direct documentation in the field. The universe consisted of all hospital records obtained from January 2016 to December 2017 of patients attended by the Department of Buccomaxillofacial Surgery and Traumatology of the Deputy Regional Hospital Janduhy Carneiro in the city of Patos, Paraíba, with a sample of 332 selected medical records. Data collection was performed by two previously calibrated examiners, who selected the charts and tabulated the information together. Data were analyzed descriptively and inferentially. Regarding the year, more than half (53.9%) of the traumas occurred in the year 2016; the independent months of the year with the highest frequencies of trauma were December (13.6%) and September (11.7%). The most frequent days of trauma events were Mondays (22.6%) and Sundays (16.9%). Regarding the location of the traumas, the middle third of the face was the most affected corresponding to 21.4% of the traumas. By means of inferential statistics with a margin of error fixed at 5%, it was verified that the face region influenced the image examination requested for the diagnosis of the fracture (p = 0.002).