What is it about?
Descriptive and analytical study on the characteristics and outcomes of patients with trauma (traffic, violence and falls) in a Brazilian ICU.
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Why is it important?
Trauma is a worldwide epidemic with greater intensity and severity in low-medium income countries, with few studies addressing the characteristics of patients treated in ICUs in these countries.
Perspectives
We found that violence and traffic trauma are particularly important in our stufy, because of their incidence and severity. The tasks of treating these patients (and their relatives) are challenger, mainly facing social and economic troubles in a low-income population and low-medium income country.
Pericles Duarte
Hospital Universitario do Oeste do Parana. Cascavel/PR. Brazil
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This page is a summary of: Epidemiology, prognostic factors, and outcome of trauma patients admitted in a Brazilian intensive care unit, Open Access Emergency Medicine, July 2018, Dove Medical Press,
DOI: 10.2147/oaem.s162695.
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