Abstract
Introduction: The Coranavirus 2019 pandemic affected several countries, due to the high virulence, the recommended protocol to prevent infection is social isolation.
Purpose: Compare the number of patients admitted and their epidemiological data on a Trauma Hospital after the declaration of the pandemic status and the first week of mandatory lockdown, with the same period of time in the last year.
Methods: This was a retrospective study of medical records from the patients admitted in the Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery of the João XXIII Hospital, between the 24th March to 31th March of 2020 and 2019. The data collection included total of 129 medical records.
Results: There was a 52.27% decrease in the total number of patients and 76,34% decrease in the total consultations of the during the lockdown. All the groups presented a decrease in significance with motor vehicle accidents events, the group 11-20 years old presented an increase on the correlation with violence and falls. When comparing both genders with the etiologies, the male one presented an increase in the correlation with violence and falls. The female gender presented correlations only with the minor causes. No valid significance was observed when comparing females with violence events.
Conclusions: The lockdown is an effective way to reduce not only the transmission of the COVID-19, but the hospital usage and occupation, which brings a double benefit to the health system in the pandemic time.