Tratamientos más comunes de las urgencias traumatológicas del Hospital Universitario Doctor Peset, Valencia, España

Abstract

Introduction: The emergency department of the University Hospital Doctor Peset has consultations of traumatology. These consultations have nurses dedicated to the treatments coming from these consultations, however, these nurses can rotate giving rise to colleagues with less experience. Objective: Know the most common reasons for consultation in trauma consultations in the emergency department and determine which treatments performed by nursing are applied more frequently. Material and method: A descriptive, transversal, observational and prospective study was carried out. Data were collected on the demographic variables and a data collection was performed during one month of the traumatology consultations in the emergency department. Subsequently a descriptive analysis of the data was carried out showing the frequencies of the reasons for consultation, treatments performed, affected areas and age groups. The mean age of the patients who attended this consultation was also performed. Results: Of the sample of 1,585 patients over the age of 14, the results we obtained were that the most common reasons for consultation were lower limbs prains (32.7%), upperlimbs prains (24.9%), and limb fractures (11.2%). The most frequently performed treatments were semicircular or spike andages (58.3%), splints (16.9) and tubular bandages (10.4%). The mean age of the patients was 41 years. Conclusion: It has been observed that there are relationships between the reasons for consultation, more usual treatments and areas affected by the lesion, in the same way, it occurs with the average age of the patients and the age groups, although more studies are necessary to confirm these relationships and improve the results obtained.