Drug use detection in medical occurrences involving physical trauma

Objetive: to evaluate the use drugs by individuals hospitalized due non-lethal physical trauma. Methods: prospective study carried out on a transversal cohort assessing secondary data and toxicological analyses in hospital of municipality Southern Brazil. Individuals were selected after being trauma likely be caused drug abuse. There cases reported public private basic health care systems registered Center for Control Intoxications, which identified clinical criteria or reports from subjects. Biological samples obteined trialing. Results: nine (17.7%) consideraded moderate severe Glasgow scale,and results obtained using Revisited Trauma Score system indicated three (6.7%) as oderate severe. The most involved aged 20 39. Quantitative analysis f ethanol determined its presence all samples, at toxic levels 15.8% biological amples assessed. Nine subjects had used cannabis (15.8%) five cocaine (8.8%) association with ethanol. Conclusion: high incidence assessed confirms relation between abuse increased risk traumas.