Prevalencia de accidentes en niños De 0 – 10 años atendidos en el área de emergencia del Hospital del niño Dr. Francisco de Icaza Bustamante.

Abstract

According to the (WHO) accidents are "incidental events, generally harmful, regardless of the human will that is manifested by the occurrence of organic injuries." In an emergency area of the city of Guayaquil observe a high frequency of injured patients of different The reason for which I formulated the following Objective: To determine the prevalence of accidents in children from 0 to 10 years of age served in the emergency area of the "Francisco de Icaza Bustamante" Children's Hospital. Used was descriptive, retrospective cross-sectional, the population was 720 of which the sample of 251 children was taken. The results of the accident prevalence was higher in children from 9 to 10 years old with 20.8%. Home burns with 30% had higher prevalence and access to thermal and electrical materials with 86% within the risk factors. The prevalence of childhood injuries due to domestic accidents developed in the emergency service of Ibarra reports the highest prevalence for children under 2 years of age with 28%, while in my thesis the highest prevalence was in children aged 9 to 10 years with 7.5%. Also the falls with 47% were the most frequent for them while the burns with 75% were for my research. In Conclusion the greatest frequency of accidents occurs in children and occurs at home such as burns and lacerations.