title: [Frequently accidents and injury at school].
abstract: During the time we have been in a private company that provide schools with medical care, we were surprised by the frequent and constant phone calls received to ask for our services. This fact made us take the decision to carry out a survey to find out the accidents and the most frequent injuries. According to the retrospective study we realized throughout two different academic courses in several schools in Cantabria, the 3.23% of the students have any accidents or injuries. We found out children between 11 and 15 have the highest accident rate, being 10.8 % higher when boys (rather than girls) are involved. The most common injuries are contusions 42.85%, followed by sprains 23.45%, being blows the reason in 42% of the cases, and surprisingly acts of aggression in 1%. It was also unexpected to learn that gyms, where children are taught in physical education, have the highest percent on accident rate. All these inquiries lead us to think that age, play and sports are determinant factors in the accidents happened in the school area.
authors.affiliation: Area Quirúrgica, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander.
authors.forename: María
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gautier Vargas
authors.forename: Vanesa
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Martínez González
mesh_terms: D000059:Accidents / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012574:Schools; D013030:Spain; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology*