Díaz FJM, Velásquez BR

Language: Spanish
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Page: 355-362
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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 Santiago de Cuba, 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.