出版社：Grupo de Pesquisa Metodologias em Ensino e Aprendizagem em Ciências
摘要：Introduction: considered a disease of great relevance to Public Health, meningitis whose pathophysiological foundation is severe inflammation of the meninges. Materials and methods: descriptive, cross-sectional, retrospective research carried out through SINAN in 2020 and 2021. Results: in quantitative cases, in 2021, Aseptic Meningitis (VM) presented with 42% (n= 1,938), followed by Unspecified meningitis (MNE), with 20% (n= 938) and meningitis caused by other bacteria (MB) with 17% (n= 786). And, respectively, MV=374, MNE=174 and MB=137 cases in 2021; in 2020, males had 58% (n= 2,690) of cases, females accounting for 41% (n= 1,900), respectively, 55% (n= 459), and 44% (n= 372) of meningitis cases in 2021; there were 9.71% (n= 442) of deaths, and 68.64% (n= 3,123) of discharges, in 2020. In 2021, respectively, there were 11.07% (n= 92), and 60.53 % (n=503); patients with schooling from “1st to 4th grade of EF incomplete”, “5th to 8th grade of EF incomplete” and “MS complete”, respectively, presented 4.16% (n=191), 5.59% (n=257) and 7.80% (n= 358) in 2020, in 2021, respectively, 4.45% (n= 37), 5.53% (n= 46) and 6.9% (n= 58) cases of meningitis; the age group from 20 to 39 years old, had 22.3% (n=1,026), children under 1 year old, with 22.2% (n=1,021), and from 40-59 years old, registered 17, 8% (n=819) of meningitis cases in 2020; urban area scored 87% (n= 4,012) of positive diagnoses, in rural areas, with 4.8% (n= 221), in 2020, in 2021 this information was underreported. Conclusion: It is worth mentioning the importance of the performance of multidisciplinary health teams in the treatment of meningitis cases.
