Introducción: el Modelo de Atención Integral en Salud del Ecuador se orienta al cumplimiento de las políticas nacionales del Plan del Buen Vivir y es uno de los mecanismos que tiene todo ciudadano de acceso a la atención oportuna, pertinente e integral de su salud.
Objetivo: describir y analizar la a...
Reyes, María Margarita;
de Lima, Liliana;
Taboada, Paulina;
Villarroel, Luis;
Vial, Juan de Dios;
Blanco, Oscar;
González, Rina;
Parra, Irene;
Toledo, Gemita;
Bonati, Pilar;
Nervi, Flavio.
Background: Spiritual issues are an important dimension of health care, but seldom addressed by professionals. Thus, a scale that assesses the presence and intensity of seven spiritual symptoms was developed. Aim: To validate the instrument in palliative care settings. Material and Methods: The spiritu...
Objetivo: Confirmar la importancia de la compresión en mamografía, y relacionarla con el disconfort manifestado por las pacientes. Materiales y métodos: Se emplearon 2 muestras de 402 y 268 mamografías, obtenidas en dos centros de diagnóstico que poseen el mismo equipo mamográfico pero diferentes t...
ABSTRACT Perioperative monitoring of coagulation is vital to assess bleeding risks, diagnose deficiencies associated with hemorrhage, and guide hemostatic therapy in major surgical procedures, such as liver transplantation. Routine static tests demand long turnaround time and do not assess platelet funct...
ABSTRACT Objective To assess the test-retest reliability of the Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale translated and culturally adapted into Brazilian Portuguese. Methods The scale was applied in an interview format for 190 patients with various cancers type hospitalized in clinical and surgical sectors ...
ABSTRACT The effectiveness of prevention bundles on the occurrence and mortality of ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP) was evaluated in many studies. However, the effectiveness of endotracheal tube with subglottic secretion drainage (ETT-SD) and cuff pressure monitorization in VAP bundles have not bee...
RESUMO Parâmetros relacionados à macrocirculação, como pressão arterial média, pressão venosa central, débito cardíaco e saturação venosa mista e central de oxigênio, são comumente utilizados na avaliação hemodinâmica de pacientes graves. No entanto, diversos estudos demonstram que existe...
ABSTRACT Objective: To evaluate the role of intrapleural positioning of a pleural catheter in early lung expansion and pleurodesis success in patients with recurrent malignant pleural effusion (RMPE). Methods: This was a retrospective study nested into a larger prospective cohort study including patien...
Cateterismo/métodos,
Catéteres de Permanencia,
Pulmón/fisiopatología,
Pleura/patología,
Pleura/fisiopatología,
Cavidad Pleural/cirugía,
Derrame Pleural Maligno/cirugía,
Pleurodesia/métodos,
Estudios Prospectivos,
Reproducibilidad de los Resultados,
Estudios Retrospectivos,
Estadísticas no Paramétricas,
Toracocentesis/instrumentación,
Toracocentesis/métodos,
Tomografía Computarizada por Rayos X,
Resultado del Tratamiento,
Ultrasonografía Intervencional/métodos
ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate the safety and short term outcomes of a new, truly minimally-invasive, mesh-less and dissection-less anchoring system for pelvic floor apical repair. Methods A prospective study was conducted using the NeuGuide™ device system for pelvic floor apical repair. The pr...
ABSTRACT Objective To validate a measurement instrument for clean intermittent self-catheterization for patients and health-caregivers. Material and Methods Methodological study of instrument validation performed at a Rehabilitation Center in a University hospital for patients submitted to clean inte...
