Clinical and therapeutical approach of the oral and facial emergencies in patients assisted in a second level institution
Keywords:
morbidity, soft part trauma, odontogenous septic process, oral facial emergency, surgical treatment, Maxillofacial Surgery Service.Abstract
A descriptive and cross-sectional study of 9 932 patients who presented oral and facial emergencies, assisted in the Maxillofacial Surgery emergency room of "Saturnino Lora Torres" Teaching Clinical Surgical Provincial Hospital in SantiagodeCuba, was carried out from January, 2006 to December, 2010, in order to characterize them from the clinical and therapeutical points of view. It was found a high incidence of affected patients with acute pathological processes that constituted emergencies in the Maxillofacial Surgery Service, although just 3.3 % of them were hospitalized. There was a prevalence of patients with soft parts trauma, acute septic inflammatory processes and painful processes of head and neck. Most of the surgical and orthopedic procedures were carried out in the emergency room above mentioned, which belong to the category of minor surgery and under ambulatory care.Downloads
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2. Moafian G, Aghabeigi MR, Hoseinzadeh A, Lankarani KB, Sarikhani Y, Heydari ST. An epidemiologic survey of road traffic accidents in Iran: analysis of driver –related factors. Chin J Traumatol. 2013; 16 (3): 140-4.
3. Motamedi MH, Dadgar E, Ebrahimi A, Shirari G, Haghighat A, Jamalpour MR. Pattern of maxillofacial fractures: a 5-year analysis of 8,818 patients. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2014; 77 (4): 630-4.
4. Cavalcanti AL. Prevalence and characteristic of injuries to the head and orofacial
region in physically abused children and adolescents: a retrospective study in a city of the Northeast of Brazil. Dent Traumatol. 2010; 26 (2): 149-53.
5. Basheeth N, Donnelly M, David S, Munish S. Acute nasal fracture management: A prospective study and literature review. Laryngoscope. 2015; 125 (12): 2677-84.
6. Mafla AC, Lopez AE, Guerrero KA, Meneses SR, Isuasty AC, Bolaños EO, et al. Estudio retrospectivo de causas de trauma maxilofacial en Pasto, Colombia de 2001 a 2006. Rev Univ Ind Santander Salud. 2009; 41 (2) :142-8.
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8. Strachan DD, Williams FA, Bacon WJ. Diagnosis and treatment of pediatric maxillofacial infections. Gent Dent. 1998; 46 (2): 180-2.
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12. Murphy DA. Substance use and facial injury. Oral Maxillofac Surg Clin North Am. 2010; 22 (2): 231-8.
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Díaz Fernández JM, Velásquez Bez R. Clinical and therapeutical approach of the oral and facial emergencies in patients assisted in a second level institution. MEDISAN [Internet]. 2018 Apr. 11 [cited 2025 Jun. 4];22(4). Available from: https://medisan.sld.cu/index.php/san/article/view/1798
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