Bibliographic citations
Chávez, Y., (2023). Caracterización epidemiológica de los accidentes por ofidismo en el Perú durante el periodo 2020-2022 [Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia]. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/14982
Chávez, Y., Caracterización epidemiológica de los accidentes por ofidismo en el Perú durante el periodo 2020-2022 []. PE: Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia; 2023. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/14982
@misc{renati/911055,
title = "Caracterización epidemiológica de los accidentes por ofidismo en el Perú durante el periodo 2020-2022",
author = "Chávez Castañeda, Yennifer Lizeth",
publisher = "Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia",
year = "2023"
}
Ophidian accidents in Peru constitute a public health problem, with greater emphasis in the departments of the Peruvian Amazon. This study describes the epidemiological characteristics of ophidian accidents registered in the Virtual Health Situation Room of the National Center for Epidemiology, Prevention and Disease Control (CDC-Peru), during the period 2020-2022. Therefore, a retrospective descriptive observational study was conducted using the notification of cases of ophidian accidents registered nationally in the CDC during the study period. Information was collected on the variables of geographic distribution by department and province; year of occurrence, epidemiological weeks in quartiles of occurrence; gender and age group of the victim. From the information collected, a database was created in Microsoft Excel and summarized using descriptive statistics. During the 2020-2022 study period, a total of 5,518 ophidian accidents were recorded, with 35 deaths and a case fatality rate of 0.63%. The departments of Loreto (29.18%), San Martin (21.59%) and Ucayali (13.32%) had the highest percentage of cases. The most affected persons were male (66.27%), and according to the age of the accident victims, the group between 30 and 59 years old presented more cases (41.81%). In epidemiological week 1-13 (January to March), 31.48% of the cases were reported, followed by 26.1% of the cases registered in week 14-26 (April to June). Knowledge of the epidemiological characterization of ophidian accidents will make it possible to design and implement prevention and control measures to reduce the risk of populations exposed to this type of accident.
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