Background: Chest pain in children and adolescents is a common complaint in the emergency department (ED), being mostly benign. A thorough patient history and physical examination should be enough in most cases for its proper management. Regarding non-cardiac chest pain, anxiety plays an important role.Methods: Retrospective analysis of all admissions in a pediatric ED of a Portuguese third-level hospital with a chief complaint of chest pain between January and December 2018. Chi-square test was used to compare different etiologies, considering a significance level of 5%.Results: A total of 798 visits were included: 53.6% girls, 80.8% adolescents (mean age: 13 years old). According to the Pediatric Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale, 77.7% was prioritized as level IV: less urgent; 65.3% reported associated symptoms including dyspnea (31.8%), cough (18.2%), and palpitations (16.1%). In physical examination, 45.5% had alterations: 62.8% with chest wall tenderness. Further investigation was done in 84% of patients: 62.4% electrocardiograms (altered in 14.7%), 52.6% chest radiographies (altered in 17.1%) and 8.9% cardiac biomarkers (altered in 12.7%). The 3 main causes of chest pain were musculoskeletal (33%), idiopathic (24.4%) and psychogenic (21.6%), with 1.1% of cardiac etiology. Less than 3% needed hospital admission and 18.9% were oriented to an outpatient consultation. 7.1% readmissions reported. When compared to other causes as a group, psychogenic chest pain presented a statistically significant association with female sex, adolescence, psychiatric antecedents, previous stressful event, and normal physical examination. Of these, <30% were oriented to a pedopsychiatry/ psychology consultation.Conclusions: Opposing to the low priority level in triage, benign diagnosis found, and low hospital admissions, there was a high percentage of complementary diagnostic tests performed with few altered results. In psychogenic chest pain there was a low postdischarge referral. The authors highlight the importance of clinical algorithms to reduce unnecessary tests performed and readmissions and improve orientation and follow-up, particularly in psychogenic etiology.

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-Objective: To evaluate the clinical profile of individuals with paraplegia living in São Paulo, Brazil. Method: The sample consisted of 60 outpatients with traumatic paraplegia from whom clinical and demographic data were obtained. Results: The patients were predominately men (86.7%), single (61.7%), with mean age of 32.9 (SD=9.47) years, and complete or incomplete primary education (63.3%). Although 41.7% were born in different states, all patients were current residents of São Paulo, Brazil. The most frequent cause of paraplegia was firearm injury (63.3%) followed by car accident (20%). The most common complications observed in the patients were urinary (88.3%) and anal (45%) incontinence, muscle spasm (65%), and pressure ulcers (26.7%). Conclusion: The data revealed that the sample consisted predominantly of young males with low education level, showing complications due to SCI, and who were victims of urban violence.Key WorDS: paraplegia, spinal cord, caractheristics.Características clínicas e sócio demográficas de pessoas com paraplegia traumática na cidade de são paulo resumo -Objetivo: Avaliar o perfil de paraplégicos que vivem na cidade de São Paulo. Método: Foram incluídos 60 paraplégicos por causa traumática. o instrumento de coleta de dados constava de dados demográficos e clínicos. Resultados: A maioria era do sexo masculino (86,7%), com média de idade igual a 32,9 (DP=9,47) anos, sendo 61,7% solteiros. em relação à naturalidade 41,7% nasceram em outros estados, porém todos residiam em São Paulo. A causa mais freqüente da paraplegia foi por ferimento por arma de fogo (63,3%), seguida por acidente automobilístico (20%). Quanto às complicações decorrentes da lesão medular, destaca-se a presença de incontinência urinária (88,3%) e anal (45%), o espasmo muscular (65%) e a úlcera por pressão (26,7%). Conclusão: os resultados encontrados permitiram verificar uma amostra de pessoas em sua maioria do sexo masculino, jovem, com baixa escolaridade e que apresentam complicações decorrentes da lesão medular e em grande parte, vítimas da violência dos grandes centros urbanos.PAlAvrAS-ChAve: paraplegia, lesão medular, características.