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Characteristics of elderly patients attended in an emergency room due to falls
Sabrina Daros Tiensoli1, Merielle Lúcia Dos Santos2, Alexandra Dias Moreira3
1Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Escola de Enfermagem, Programa de Pós-Graduação. Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brasil.
Objective:
To describe the characteristics of elderly patients attended in a teaching hospital emergency room due to falls.
Method:
Descriptive, quantitative, cross-sectional study performed at a hospital emergency room. The data was collected in November 2017, considering the medical records of 1.460 elderly patients, with a registry related to fall as the main complain. A descriptive analysis of the data was performed.
Results:
The main results show that most elders were female (66.92%), older than 80 years old (27.27%), single (41.37%), and hypertensive (78.79%). Falls from ground level comprised 88.56% and their main consequence was trauma (55.65%). 66.30% were discharged after consultation.
Conclusion:
The characteristics of the elderly were: female, age above 80 years old, single, and hypertensive. The most frequent type of fall was from ground level, traumas were the main consequences and the discharge after consulting the most common outcome.
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