Association between prehospital care and mortality of patients admitted with serious injuries due to traffic accidents in a National Hospital in Lima-Peru

Authors

  • Evelyn Huincho Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Lima, Perú.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.20453/renh.v13i0.4148

Abstract

Traffic accidents constitute one of the main public health problems, and prehospital care is a system adopted to reduce mortality in the face of these increasing events. Objective: to evaluate the association between mortality and prehospital care of patients admitted with serious injuries due to traffic accidents. Material and Methods: The information analyzed comes from a retrospective, documentary study developed at the Hipólito Unanue National Hospital in Lima-Peru during the years 2016 to 2019. The estimated measure of association was the relative risk (RR). Results: The 38.2 of patients admitted for traffic accidents were female and 61.8% were male; the group with the highest number of deaths (65.77%) were male and the age of individuals admitted with serious injuries were between 48.38 ± 20.88 (SD) years. Patients who received pre-hospital care showed a RR of 0,774; IC (95%) 0,595– 0,995 vs. a RR de 1,481; IC (95%) 0,933 –2,351 who did not receive this care. Conclusions: The findings suggestthe need to reinforce prehospital care measures for this health problem.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Downloads

Published

2022-03-15

How to Cite

1.
Huincho E. Association between prehospital care and mortality of patients admitted with serious injuries due to traffic accidents in a National Hospital in Lima-Peru. Rev enferm Herediana. [Internet]. 2022 Mar. 15 [cited 2024 Jul. 22];13:37-42. Available from: https://revistas.upch.edu.pe/index.php/RENH/article/view/4148

Issue

Vol. 13 (2020): Enero -Diciembre

Section

ARTICLES

License

All articles published in the Revista Enfermeria Herediana are under a Creative Commons Reconocimiento 4.0 International license.

The authors retain the copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication, with the work registered with the Creative Commons License, which allows third parties to use what is published whenever they mention the authorship of the work, and to the first publication in this magazine.

Authors can make other independent and additional contractual agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the version published in this journal, provided they clearly indicate that the work was published in this journal.

The authors can file in the repository of their institution:
The research work or thesis of degree from which the published article derives.
The pre-print version: the version prior to peer review.
The Post-print version: final version after peer review.
The definitive version or final version created by the publisher for publication.