Evaluación de la lesionología por armas en pacientes adultos atendidos en el servicio de emergencia del Hospital de Especialidades José Carrasco Arteaga-Cuenca, 2015-2020

Abstract

Background: Weapon injuries have become an evident social and health problem worldwide, being considered among the first causes of mortality, being necessary to develop research to have information of this type of eventualities. General Objective: To evaluate weapon injuryology in adult patients attended in the emergency department of the Hospital de Especialidades José Carrasco Arteaga- Cuenca, 2015-2020. Methods: A cross-sectional statistical study of frequency indexes was performed, with information from the HEJCA IESS Cuenca; filtered with the research data (206 cases evaluated). Results: The injuries produced by weapons in the sample, from 2015 to 2020 was 2.06%, the highest percentage was for those aged between 20 to 39 years and of female sex; the inter-annual behavior of these attentions is maintained with homogeneous trend, with exclusion of the year 2020 due to the course of SARS-COV2. The analysis of the variables did not allow defining a month, day and hour of greater frequency; not so, to describe the place of occurrence, where 86.9% of these eventualities occur in public spaces, and with a frequency of 94.2% in urban parishes. Conclusions: The evaluation of injuries that were attended for the emergency service of HEJCA IESS, showed that the prevalence is low compared to the other attentions; in addition, the description of these events, allowed to define the most relevant variants (sex (female), age (20-39), weapons (bladed), injuries of moderate character occurring in public spaces and in urban parishes).