Ocorrências de intoxicações éxogenas em pacientes atendidos nas Unidades de Saúde do Distrito Federal, em 2005

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

RESUMO

The occurrence of the Exogenous Intoxications was not known at the Health Units of the Federal District, in Brazil, until the year 2004, because we didnt have a special service that could study the problem and because we dont have a legal obligation in order to notify this Exogenous Intoxications. The evidence and the valuation of the toxic accidents, give to us a better knowledge about this problem of Public Health in some aspects: epidemical, socio-economic, psycho-social and as an emergency. The realization of this search had been the purpose of to know the number of cases of the Exogenous Intoxications in patients who were treated at the Health Basic Net Units of the Federal District, in Brazil, during the year 2005. A retrospective analysis of the data achieved in this year were done by the exam of the files existent in the Toxic Assistance and Information Center, called CIAT, and of the notification papers that were by the epidemiologic vigilance people. The methodology was done in a quantitative boarding by a longitudinal retrospective study. The intoxications were analyzed with the following aspects: sex, age, where the fact occur, the zone of the occurrence, the classification of the toxic agent, the way of the exposition, the circumstance, the symptoms, the treatment that was done and the final evolution. We found 1566 cases of the Exogenous Intoxications, 236 were found by the notification records and by cases that were observed at the CIAT and 1330 that were found by the notification papers of the epidemiologic vigilance. In the predominance of the accidents for age group it was verified that the majority of cases occurred in people which have more than 12 years old (62,4%); the most cases were in the female sex (55,5%); the individual accident occurred in 57,2% of the event by circumstances, trying self-murder (16,9%), work accidents (5,1%), not known (3,8%), collective accidents (2,5%), and others (4,2%). Among the causing agents we had: medicines (29,1%); pesticides (12,5%); domestic products (11,5%); drug abuse (10%). The most common agents that causes accidents in the children were the domestic products (68,1%); medicines (34,4%); pesticides (32,4%). In the analysis of the administrative region we found that the HRSAM was the principal (20,9%); HRG(17,4%); HRS (12,%); HRT (10,1); HRAN (9,57%); HRC ( 9,32%) and HRPL (8,30%). The month of the great occurrence was May. The day with the great occurrence was Thursday. This study gives the chance to distinguish the profile of the clients that was taken care at the Health Units and to identify the toxic agents that were involved in the accidents, the circumstances and the seasonality. The generation of these informations could give to our Health Authorities the necessary assistance in the elaboration of a preventive program as well as to give to the people that work at the Health Units.

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toxicologia toxic accidents ciencias da saude exogenous intoxications vigilância epidemiológica intoxicações exógenas intoxicação acidentes tóxicos problema de saúde pública health public problems saúde pública - brasília (df)

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