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Maintenance of sterility in SMS packaging in dental environments: concern with biosafety

Acta sci., Health sci; 44 (), 2022
Healthcare services must be guided by biosafety practices and microbial control. This control is highly influenced by humidity, which directly impacts the maintenance of sterility of the materials used in the appointments. High concentration of moisture, in the form of aerosol, splashes and ...

Diagnostic costs: a research in a family medicine outpatient clinic

Acta sci., Health sci; 44 (), 2022
The aim of this study is to evaluate the direct diagnostic costs for disease groups and other variables (such as gender, age, seasons) that are related to the direct diagnostic costs based on a 3-year data. The population of the study consisted of 31,401 patients who applied to family medicine outpatient...

Evaluation of Aids and Hepatitis-B knowledge and job satisfaction among hairdressers and barbers in Turkey

Acta sci., Health sci; 44 (), 2022
Blood-borne viruses, includingthe human immunodeficiency virus and hepatitis B virus, have certain common epidemiological characteristics and these viruses infect millions of people worldwide. This study aimed to determine the job satisfaction and the level of knowledge and practices regarding infectious...

Effect of handling, time of use and photoactivation on the contamination of dental composite resins

Acta sci., Health sci; 44 (), 2022
This study evaluated the effect of contamination of composite resins (CRs) handled by undergraduate students during restorative procedures, varying the time (baseline, 30 days and 60 days) and experimental condition (before and after handling, contamination with saliva [positive cont...

Sistema inteligente para la medición del comportamiento humano en relación al cumplimiento del protocolo de bioseguridad Covid-19 implementando tecnología de IoB: aplicación en ITCA-FEPADE Sede Central

Este proyecto fue desarrollado por la Escuela de Ingeniería en Computación de ITCA-FEPADE y tuvo como objetivo usar las tecnologías para ayudar a mejorar el comportamiento de la comunidad educativa en pandemia Covid-19. Es un sistema inteligente para la medición del comportamiento humano con relació...

Situación en la realización de pruebas diagnósticas para SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) ante nueva variante Ómicron (B. 1. 1. 529)

INTRODUCCIÓN: El virus SARS-CoV-2, con el tiempo ha mutado y sigue presentando múltiples variantes, lo que ha dado lugar a una variación genética en la población de cepas virales circulantes en el transcurso de la pandemia de COVID-19. La Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) ha estandarizado dich...

Leak and Scattering Assessment by Optically Stimulated Luminescence Dosimetry in a Helical Linear Accelerator

Radiation absorbed doses to organs outside the radiation therapy treatment beam can be significant and therefore of clinical interest. Two sets of out-of-beam measurements were performed measuring the leak dose and the scattered dose, at 5 points within the accelerator components (accelerator tube and co...

Análise do efeito da padronização das medidas de prevenção de infeção da corrente sanguínea relacionada ao cateter central de inserção periférica em recém-nascidos na unidade de terapia intensiva neonatal

Introdução: O uso do cateter central de inserção periférica na Neonatologia tem contribuídosignificativamente para reduzir a mortalidade neonatal nas Unidades de Terapia IntensivaNeonatais. Essa prática intravenosa segura favorece a estabilização hemodinâmica do recémnascido e possibilita a ad...

Small cell lung cancer: an overview of the targets

Abstract Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide. Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) accounts for approximately 15% of all lung cancer cases. Despite a frequently good response to first-line treatment with chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy, early relapse occurs in the majority of patients a...

Use of microalgal biomass as functional ingredient for preparation of cereal based extrudates: impact of processing on amino acid concentrations and colour degradation kinetics

Abstract Suitability of developing Spirulina incorporated cereal based low cost nutritious extrudates was analysed against extrusion processing parameters. Most significant extrusion processing parameters considered for present study were feed moisture (20-25%), die temperature (100-120 °C) and screw s...