Profile of children and teens attended in emergency according to the risk classification: A documental study

Abstract

Objective: Outline the clinical profile of children and adolescents (0-14 years) treated at a hospital in Fortaleza, Ceará, based on the criteria of a ACCR protocol in Pediatrics. Methods: Documental study, with a sample of 627 reports of emergency randomly selected, processed and analyzed in SPSS 17.0. Results: Most of the children proceeded from the Regional Executive Office III (65.63%), male (57.33%), aged 1 to 5 years (51.63%) and adequate weight (53.42%). There was an association between risk assessment and the specialty clinical medicine (p <0.001), with the highest percentage rating from yellow to blue in medical clinic. The prevalent complaint was fever with yellow classification. Conclusion: By means of risk rating, the nurse can identify the degree of clinical commitment of patients, the appropriate and exceeding demand of the institution, providing the necessary care, according to the level of complexity of each case.