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Neutrophil count to albumin ratio as a new predictor of mortality in patients with COVID-19 ınfection

Rev Assoc Med Bras (1992); 66 (Suppl 2), 2020
SUMMARY BACKGROUND Coronavirus Disease 2019 is an acute inflammatory respiratory disease. It causes many changes in hemogram parameters. Low albumin levels are associated with mortality risk in hospitalized patients. The aim of the present study is to reveal the place of neutrophil count to albumin rat...

Ethical dilemmas in COVID-19 times: how to decide who lives and who dies?

Rev Assoc Med Bras (1992); 66 (Suppl 2), 2020
SUMMARY The respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) is a pandemic that produces a large number of simultaneous patients with severe symptoms and in need of special hospital care, overloading the infrastructure of health services. All of these demands generate the need to ratio...

Safety alert for hospital environments and health professional: chlorhexidine is ineffective for coronavirus

Rev Assoc Med Bras (1992); 66 (Suppl 2), 2020
SUMMARY An alarming fact was revealed by recent publications concerning disinfectants: chlorhexidine digluconate is ineffective for disinfecting surfaces contaminated by the new coronavirus. This is a finding that requires immediate disclosure since this substance is widely used for the disinfection of h...

Chest tubes in COVID-19 times: a safe way to protect the team

Rev Assoc Med Bras (1992); 66 (Suppl 2), 2020
SUMMARY INTRODUCTION What has been published so far regarding safe methods to deal with chest tube insertion during COVID-19. METHODS A descriptive study of the literature available in the Medline/PubMed, Lilacs, Scopus databases and specialized books. The search was carried out using the terms "infe...

Management of non traumatic surgical emergencies during the COVID-19 pandemia

Rev. Col. Bras. Cir; 47 (), 2020
ABSTRACT In December 2019, in Wuhan, China, the first cases of what would be known as COVID-19, a disease caused by an RNA virus called SARS-CoV-2, were described. Its spread was rapid and wide, leading the World Health Organization to declare a pandemic in March 2020. The disease has distinct clinical p...

Surgical cancer care in the COVID-19 era: front line views and consensus

Rev. Col. Bras. Cir; 47 (), 2020
ABSTRACT Objective: to suggest a script for surgical oncology assistance in COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil. Method: a narrative review and a "brainstorming" consensus were carried out after discussion with more than 350 Brazilian specialists and renowned surgeons from Portugal, France, Italy and United ...

The trauma and acute care surgeon in the COVID-19 pandemic era

Rev. Col. Bras. Cir; 47 (), 2020
ABSTRACT The World Health Organization recognized in March 2020 the existence of a pandemic for the new coronavirus that appeared in China, in late 2019, and whose disease was named COVID-19. In this context, the SBAIT (Brazilian Society of Integrated Care for Traumatized Patients) conducted a survey wit...

The difficult crossroads of decisions at COVID-19: how can the deontology implicit in Evidence-Based Medicine help us to understand the different attitudes of doctors at this time?

Rev. Col. Bras. Cir; 47 (), 2020
ABSTRACT One of the struggles faced by physicians in clinical decisions during the COVID-19 pandemic is how to deal with already available or lacking scientific evidence. The COVID-19 pandemic has a large impact in the routine of the many health services, including surgery, which demanded changes in assi...

Adapting to an unprecedented scenario: surgery during the COVID-19 outbreak

Rev. Col. Bras. Cir; 47 (), 2020
ABSTRACT On January 30th, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome 2 (SARSCoV-2) outbreak an international public health emergency, and one day later, the first COVID-19 case was confirmed in Gomera Island, Spain. In the following weeks, the number of cases in se...