SAÚDE DA CRIANÇA E HOSPITALIZAÇÃO POR ACIDENTES DURANTE A PANDEMIA DE COVID-19

Abstract

Accidents in childhood are defined as unintentional and avoidable events, causing physical or emotional injuries that can occur in any environment and have several classifications: traffic, domestic, school, among others (CARVALHO, EL.2009). Objective: To analyze the trend of childhood accidents recorded in a large hospital in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul during the period of social isolation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Methodology: refers to a descriptive study with a quantitative approach, developed through the collection of epidemiological data on the records of hospitalizations located in the medical records of sectors of the children's specialty from March to December of the years 2019 and 2020 in a Hospital of Misericórdia de Santa Casa de Mato Grosso do Sul, to which it was submitted and approved by the Research Ethics Committee (CEP) of the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS), under opinion number 4,407,818 on November 18, 2020. Results: 1,212 hospitalizations were recorded for accidents involving children and adolescents between 2019 and 2020. In 2019 there were 649 (53.5%) hospitalizations and in 2020, 563 (46.5%). The month in which the highest number of hospitalizations occurred was August 2019, followed by July of the same year and September 2020. Conclusion: it is believed that the presence of parents or guardians at home may have been a factor determinant for the decrease in these records, since there was a decrease in these numbers in the months of April, May, June, July, November and December 2020. However, there was a limitation in the present study regarding the lack of data recording on the variable corresponding to the presence of parents or guardians at home at the time of the accident. It is observed that although the incidence of accidents recorded in 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic began in Brazil, did not increase significantly, there was a characteristic change in the severity profiles of these accidents, with an increase in the number of transfers to other hospitals and deaths, corresponding to greater severity in 2020 when compared to 2019.