Accidents in childhood: casuistry of a tertiary service in a medium-sized city in Brazil.

Objective: to investigate the main causes and most common risk situations related to childhood accidents, in our local reality.

Methods: an observational, cross-sectional, retrospective, descriptive, and analytical study from the medical records of patients attended in the pediatric emergency services of the hospital complex of Hospital das Clínicas, Botucatu Medical School - UNESP, in 2016. We included patients from zero to 15 years old who had received medical care related to accidents, determining age, gender, type of accident, period of the day, accident place, and history of previous accidents.