Profile of pregnant women attended at a public hospital in the interior of São Paulo

Abstract

Objective of this study is identifying the epidemiological profile of pregnant women at risk in urgency and emergency in the reference hospital of a public institution in the interior of São Paulo. Based on an epidemiological, retrospective and quantitative approach of the exploratory and explanatory type were adopted. After analyses there were found variables in the epidemiological profile: socioeconomic factors, pre-existing morbidities and acquires up to procedures involved. Conclusion the origin prevails the studied municipality (72,2%). Most of them (27,4%) were between 20 and 24 years old. The main causes of care are complications in labor and childbirth (22%), which end in abortion (20%), reasons linked to the fetus, amniotic cavity and hypertensive disorders in pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium (1,8%). The cesarean section was responsible for 67,7% of the births performed and 62,8% of the procedures being post-abortion curettage. It stands out theatment for complications in pregnancy (92,8%), for complications in pregnancy (2,4%) and for swelling, protein in urine andy hypertensive disorders in pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium (1%). The is a feature profile of the region is not distinguished from the other regions of Brasil.