COVID-19 should be a methylene blue promoter
Rev. bras. cir. cardiovasc; 35 (4), 2020
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Cardiovascular involvement in COVID-19: not to be missed
Rev. bras. cir. cardiovasc; 35 (4), 2020
Abstract In December 2019, a striking appearance of new cases of viral pneumonia in Wuhan led to the detection of a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV2). By analyzing patients with severe manifestations, it became apparent that 20 to 35% of patients who died had preexisting cardiovascular disease. This finding ...
Posição prona em pacientes em ventilação espontânea com insuficiência respiratória por COVID-19: relato de caso
Rev. Pesqui. Fisioter; 10 (3), 2020
A Posição Prona (PP) geralmente é utilizada em casos de Insuficiência Respiratória Aguda (IRpA) grave, em pacientes com Síndrome da Angústia Respiratória Aguda (SARA) e em ventilação mecânica invasiva, com o objetivo de melhorar a oxigenação. Entretanto, pode ser útil em casos de IRpA leve ...
A pragmatic approach and treatment of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in intensive care unit
Rev. Assoc. Med. Bras. (1992); 66 (8), 2020
SUMMARY There is a new global pandemic that emerged in China in 2019 that is threatening different populations with severe acute respiratory failure. The disease has enormous potential for transmissibility and requires drastic governmental measures, guided by social distancing and the use of protective d...
Effect of COVID-19 on platelet count and its indices
Rev. Assoc. Med. Bras. (1992); 66 (8), 2020
SUMMARY BACKGROUND Easily accessible, inexpensive, and widely used laboratory tests that demonstrate the severity of COVID-19 are important. Therefore, in this study, we aimed to investigate the relationship between mortality in COVID-19 and platelet count, Mean Platelet Volume (MPV), and platelet dist...
Burnout in pediatric critical care medicine: more challenging days during the COVID-19 pandemic
Rev. Assoc. Med. Bras. (1992); 66 (8), 2020
Laboratory findings in SARS-CoV-2 infections: State of the art
Rev. Assoc. Med. Bras. (1992); 66 (8), 2020
SUMMARY OBJECTIVE The scientific community is constantly assessing the clinical and laboratory manifestations of COVID-19 in the organism. In view of the fragmentation of the large amount of information, knowledge gaps in relation to laboratory markers, and scarcity of papers in Portuguese, we propose ...
Comparison of saliva and oro-nasopharyngeal swab sample in the molecular diagnosis of COVID-19
Rev. Assoc. Med. Bras. (1992); 66 (8), 2020
SUMMARY BACKGROUND Healthcare personnel are at risk of becoming infected while taking upper and/or lower respiratory tract specimens. Therefore, there is a need for sampling methods that do not risk infecting them. In this study, we aimed to compare the saliva and Oro-Nasopharyngeal Swab (ONS) sampling ...
O uso do ciberespaço pela administração pública na pandemia da COVID-19: diagnósticos e vulnerabilidades
Rev. adm. pública (Online); 54 (4), 2020
Resumo A pandemia da COVID-19, por demandar isolamento social, impõe aproximação e coordenação de esforços de entes públicos e privados por intermédio da Internet e dos serviços digitais. O artigo analisa o uso e a operacionalização do ciberespaço pela Administração Pública no combate ao S...
Pandemics and communication: an experimental assessment
Rev. adm. pública (Online); 54 (4), 2020
Abstract Communication is a key factor in containing a pandemic. Fragmented information may affect people's perceptions and behaviors, especially in times of governmental miscommunication, potentially jeopardizing efforts aimed at containing the spread of the disease. To test whether and how people have ...