Abstract
Objective: Identify the total number of attendances by SAMU in the first half of 2013 and stratify cases of psychiatric patients and from diagnoses highlight the signs and symptoms related to establish the implications for the care of nurses. Method: Quantitative, documentary and retrospective with survey compiled statistical data SAMU due care of psychiatric patients in a municipality in the state of São Paulo in the first half of 2013 survey data related to diagnoses of mental disorders were included only showed that patients treated through the records of service calls. Data collection occurred through the analysis of the records of attendance. Results: 7,756 calls in all were analyzed within six months. Of these 546 were psychiatric divided into: 148 cases of alcoholism, 77 depression, 66 suicide attempts, psychotic break of 58, 51 of delirium, psychomotor agitation for 50, 43 anxiety, 42 with schizophrenia and 11 cases related to other psychiatric . Conclusion: The nurse must have comprehensive knowledge of mental illness and its manifestations so that the service is effective and efficient, in that it is quickly identified, addressed and forwarded.