Estudo descritivo, de natureza qualitativa, com o objetivo de conhecer a realidade da notificação de acidentes de trabalho com material biológico no Serviço de Epidemiologia Hospitalar de Hospital de Ensino de Curitiba - PR. A coleta de dados foi realizada em bancos de dados do SINAN-Net e por meio de entrevistas semiestruturadas com dez informantes-chave. A análise dos dados, fundamentada no materialismo histórico e dialético, permitiu identificar processos relacionados às dimensões estrutural, particular e singular na notificação dos acidentes de trabalho.

This is a descriptive study based on qualitative methods aimed at outlining the connection between occurrence and lack of reporting of occupational accident with biological material reported in a teaching hospital at Curitiba, Parana State, Brazil. Data collection involved searching report made in 2010 by the Epidemiology unit and semi-structured interviews with key informants from a hospital. Data were examined according to historical and dialectical materialism that led to the identification of structural, specific and unique aspects of occupational accident reports.

Estudo descritivo, de natureza qualitativa, com o objetivo de conhecer a realidade da notificação de acidentes de trabalho com material biológico no Serviço de Epidemiologia Hospitalar de Hospital de Ensino de Curitiba - PR. A coleta de dados foi realizada em bancos de dados do SINAN-Net e por meio de entrevistas semiestruturadas com dez informantes-chave. A análise dos dados, fundamentada no materialismo histórico e dialético, permitiu identificar processos relacionados às dimensões estrutural, particular e singular na notificação dos acidentes de trabalho.

This is a descriptive study based on qualitative methods aimed at outlining the connection between occurrence and lack of reporting of occupational accident with biological material reported in a teaching hospital at Curitiba, Parana State, Brazil. Data collection involved searching report made in 2010 by the Epidemiology unit and semi-structured interviews with key informants from a hospital. Data were examined according to historical and dialectical materialism that led to the identification of structural, specific and unique aspects of occupational accident reports.

The aim of this study is to evaluate the clinical and laboratorial aspects, as well as the etiological profile and the evolution characteristics, of the diverse types of severe meningitis treated at a Pediatric Clinic of a public university hospital. From a descriptive and retrospective study, 312 children at the Pediatric Clinic of the Hospital de Clínicas of the Federal University of Paraná were evaluated between January 2003 and January 2007. All of them had a probable diagnosis of meningitis based on clinical signs, and on the cytological and biochemical alterations in the cerebrospinal fluid routine examination. Viral meningitis (VM) was present in 140 children (45%), 58 had bacterial meningitis (BM - 19%) and etiology was undetermined in 114 (36%). In MB, Neisseria meningitidis was the most frequent etiological agent (25 cases). Predominant clinical symptoms were fever, sickness and headache. The cerebrospinal fluid test showed a high number of polymorphonuclear leukocytes, high protein and low glucose level in MB; mononuclear cells were predominant in VM. Neurological complications were more frequent in BM, and convulsion the most common symptom (6/58 patients). Death happened to one case in VM and 3 in BM. Our conclusions were that the classical triad (headache, vomiting and fever) was the most common clinical manifestation, the cytological and biochemical abnormalities were typical, helping in the differentiation of MB from VM, although a good number of cases ended up with no etiological definition and, finally, immediate neurological complications and death were rare.

El objetivo de este trabajo fue evaluar los aspectos clínicos, análisis de laboratorio, el perfil etiológico y las características evolutivas de los distintos tipos de meningitis aguda atendidos en un Servicio de Pediatría de un Hospital Público Universitario. Fueron evaluados a partir de un estudio descriptivo y retrospectivo de niños atendidos en el Servicio de Pediatría del Hospital de Clínicas de la Universidad Federal del Paraná, durante el periodo entre enero 2003 a enero 2007, con el diagnóstico probable de meningitis basado en manifestaciones clínicas y en alteraciones citológicas y bioquímicas del LCR. Se diagnosticó meningitis viral (MV) en 140 niños (45%), meningitis bacteriana (MB) en 58 (19%) y en 114 la etiología fue indeterminada (36%). Entre las MB el agente etiológico más frecuente fue Neisseria meningitidis (25 casos). Lo datos clínicos predominantes fueron fiebre, vómitos y cefalea. En el LCR de la MB hubo predominio de polimorfonucleares, proteína elevada y glucosa baja. En la MV predominaron los mononucleares. Las complicaciones neurológicas fueron más frecuentes en la MB, siendo la convulsión el hallazgo más común (6/58 pacientes). El óbito ocurrió en un caso en la MV y tres en la MB. Se llegó a la conclusión de que la clásica tríada fue la manifestación clínica más común, las anormalidades citológicas y bioquímicas fueron típicas auxiliando en la diferenciación entre las MB y MV, aunque un gran número de casos haya quedado sin definición etiológica; las complicaciones neurológicas inmediatas y los óbitos han sido pocos frecuentes en esta muestra.