Epidemiology and Injuries in Traffic Accidents: Pedestrians Hit and Run Victims in Sao Paulo, Brazil

Caio Vinicius da Fonseca Silva¹, Raphael Muszkat Besborodco¹, Georgia de Sá Cavalcante Teixeira¹, Laura Nicolau Nassif¹, Amanda Paolla Natal Santos¹, Victória Maria Aguiar Fonai¹, Victoria Sanna Schimith¹, Isabella Ferlini Cieri¹, Mariana Becker Pfeferman¹, Bianca Baptista Altieri¹, Víctor Gabriel Denardi Cordeiro Silva¹, Cintia Leci Rodrigues^2*, Patricia Colombo-Souza² & Carlos Górios³

¹Student of the Medicine Course, University Santo Amaro, Brazil
²Professor of Medicine, University Santo Amaro, Brazil
³Titular of the Discipline Orthopedics and Traumatology, São Camilo University Center, Brazil

Dr. Cintia Leci Rodrigues, Professor of Medicine, University Santo Amaro, Brazil.

Keywords: Accidents; Traffic; Wounds and Injuries; Accident Prevention

Abstract

Introduction
External causes have gained relevance in the last decades due to the important impact that these diseases have on health care and assistance, raising the costs in the sectors and levels of care involved, besides having a great relevance in the morbidity and mortality of the population. The services that are most burdened by the high demands resulting from the accidents are mainly public emergency services, specialized assistance, physical rehabilitation, psychological and social assistance.
Objective
This study aims to analyse the victims of road accidents, the frequency and severity of the injuries identified.
Method
This is a descriptive study about the notifications of accidents in terrestrial transportation that occurred between January and October 2018 related to pedestrians in the city of Sao Paulo.
Results
During the study period, there were 1665 pedestrians trampling. Accidents were caused mainly by automobiles (43.1%), the victims were predominantly male.
Conclusion
Trauma victims have intracranial, thoracic, abdominal and extremity lesions with greater frequency and severity.

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