ABSTRACT Objective: to compare the acquisition and retention of knowledge about surgical cricothyroidostomy by the rapid four-step technique (RFST), when taught by expository lecture, low fidelity and high-fidelity simulation models. Methods: ninety medical students at UFPR in the first years of train...
ABSTRACT Objective: to evaluate the impact of probable sarcopenia (PS) on the survival of oncological patients submitted to major surgeries. Method: prospective cohort bicentrical study enrolling adult oncological patients submitted to major surgeries at Cancer Hospital and Santa Casa de Misericordia ...
Complicaciones Posoperatorias/epidemiología,
Neoplasias/cirugía,
Neoplasias/mortalidad,
Persona de Mediana Edad,
Brasil/epidemiología,
Algoritmos,
Estudios Prospectivos,
Factores de Riesgo,
Sarcopenia/complicaciones,
Sarcopenia/mortalidad,
Encuestas y Cuestionarios,
Tasa de Supervivencia
ABSTRACT Objective: to compare hospital costs and clinical outcomes in inguinal and incisional hernioplasty before and after implementation of the ACERTO project in a university hospital. Methods: retrospective study of 492 patients undergoing either inguinal hernioplasty (n=315) or incisional herniop...
Extubación Traqueal,
Atención,
Cirugía General,
Hematoma Subdural Agudo/cirugía,
Hemorragia,
Laparotomía,
Persona de Mediana Edad,
Estudios Prospectivos,
Estudios Retrospectivos,
Centros Traumatológicos/normas,
Resultado del Tratamiento,
Heridas y Lesiones/cirugía
ABSTRACT Purpose: to trauma quality indicators as a tool to identify opportunities of improvement in elderly trauma patient's' treatment. Methods: prospective analysis of data collected between 2014-2015, and stored in the iTreg software (by Ecossistemas). Trauma victims, aged older than 60 years and...
Extubación Traqueal,
Atención,
Cirugía General,
Hematoma Subdural Agudo/cirugía,
Hemorragia,
Laparotomía,
Persona de Mediana Edad,
Estudios Prospectivos,
Estudios Retrospectivos,
Centros Traumatológicos/normas,
Resultado del Tratamiento,
Heridas y Lesiones/cirugía
Abstract INTRODUCTION: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become a global public health emergency with lethality ranging from 1% to 5%. This study aimed to identify active high-risk transmission clusters of COVID-19 in Sergipe. METHODS: We performed a prospective space-time analysis using confir...
Abstract INTRODUCTION: Laboratory and clinical features of childhood tuberculosis (TB) are non-specific and establishing an accurate diagnosis remains a challenge. This study evaluated a Single tube nested-PCR (STNPCR) to detect genomic DNA of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in blood and urine. METH...
ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE: This study evaluates the association between sociodemographic factors, maternal characteristics, organization of health services and neonatal near miss in public and private maternity hospitals in Brazil. METHODS: This is a prospective cohort of live births from the Nascer no Brasil...
ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To assess longitudinally the change in quality of life in people living with HIV initiating antiretroviral therapy in three public reference services specialized in HIV care in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. METHODS Prospective cohort study among people living with HIV, aged 18 years or o...
ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE: To estimate the prevalence of smoking and evaluate the factors associated with this outcome in people living with HIV (PLHIV). METHODS: This is a cross-sectional study of a prospective concurrent cohort of 462 individuals initiating antiretroviral therapy at three HIV/AIDS specializ...
Fármacos Anti-VIH/uso terapéutico,
Terapia Antirretroviral Altamente Activa/métodos,
Brasil/epidemiología,
Estudios Transversales,
Infecciones por VIH/tratamiento farmacológico,
Infecciones por VIH/epidemiología,
Infecciones por VIH/psicología,
Prevalencia,
Estudios Prospectivos,
Fumar/epidemiología,
Factores Socioeconómicos
ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE: To estimate the incidence and to evaluate risk factors for antineoplastic nausea and vomiting with high and moderate emetogenic chemotherapy in adult patients in the first treatment cycle. METHODS: Prospective cohort study with follow-up of 269 adults during the first cycle of antin...
Antieméticos/uso terapéutico,
Antineoplásicos/efectos adversos,
Antineoplásicos/uso terapéutico,
Brasil/epidemiología,
Estudios de Cohortes,
Incidencia,
Persona de Mediana Edad,
Náusea/inducido químicamente,
Náusea/tratamiento farmacológico,
Náusea/epidemiología,
Neoplasias/tratamiento farmacológico,
Estudios Prospectivos,
Factores de Riesgo,
Vómitos/inducido químicamente,
Vómitos/tratamiento farmacológico,
Vómitos/epidemiología
