Introduction: The widely use of alcoholic beverages by the Brazilian population stands for a health problem due to the amount of traumas occurring due to alcohol abuse. According to recent research, 67% of the population uses some type of alcoholic beverages, and the number of drunks associated with facial trauma has alarming grown in the country. Therefore, this study was designed to obtain recent data on the amount of patients evaluated in the trauma room of a Brazilian Emergency Hospital, to determine the involvement of alcohol abuse with facial trauma.
Methods: On our study, we evaluated all the patients who arrived in an Emergency room, and divided them into categories, such as gender, influence of alcohol and conduct necessary after the trauma, and those all the data were assessed.
Results: We found during our research that 528 patients were admitted at the trauma room from Dr. Joao Lúcio Pereira Emergency hospital, and of those, 206 informed that they had ingested some type of alcoholic beverage. 166 of those patients were male and only 40 were female. Of the 166 male, 68 were evaluated and later discharged, 28 were admitted for hospital immediate treatment and 35 were referred to a specialized service. From the 40 women, 18 were discharged, 6 were admitted and 16 were referred to the specialist.
Conclusion: Based on the results obtained, we can conclude that males have a higher rate of facial trauma related with alcohol consumption when compared to women and, in general, this rate corresponds to 39% of visits in the poly-trauma service. And we are in need of some kind of evaluation on the alcoholic beverage distribution or on reviewing law enforcement on driving under the influence of alcohol.
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