Caracterização da vítima e do trauma de acidentes motociclísticos na cidade de Campina Grande-PB.

Abstract

Brazil in the last decades, an increasing increase in the number of accidents involving motorcycles, vehicle that comes winning, more and more, the acceptance and the population approval, for being an agile, economic vehicle and of reduced cost. Ahead of this the goal of this study was To analyze the motorcyclists accidents epidemic standard with victims in Campina Grande, of january by January of year 2009, starting from given of SAMU, as well as the trauma incidence and the factors associates to his mechanism. For this, it was accomplished an epidemic, retrospective study and,descriptive with quantitative approach. They were collected the data 870 vitimas. According to obtained results was verified,predominance of young adults of the masculine sex, the motorcycle conductors the main category. It detected regarding the alcoholism state a significant number. The helmet utilization as protection equipment was present in vitimas majority. Saturday and Sunday were week days with larger number of rough victims. Already the most frequent lesions went in the,inferior members, followed by the members,superior. It concludes then that is,essential the implementation of preventive measures and an effective,traffic education program.