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Rev. Col. Bras. Cir; 47 (), 2020
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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...
Standardization of elective tracheostomies at the Central Institute of the Hospital das Clínicas in São Paulo during the COVID-19 pandemic
Rev. Col. Bras. Cir; 47 (), 2020
ABSTRACT The COVID-19 Pandemic has resulted in a high number of hospital admissions and some of those patients need ventilatory support in intensive care units. The viral pneumonia secondary to Sars-cov-2 infection may lead to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and longer mechanical ventilation n...
Aerosoles/efectos adversos, Betacoronavirus, Brasil, COVID-19, Infecciones por Coronavirus/prevención & control, Infecciones por Coronavirus/cirugía, Procedimientos Quirúrgicos Electivos/normas, Quirófanos/normas, Tempo Operativo, Pandemias/prevención & control, Equipo de Protección Personal/normas, Neumonía Viral/prevención & control, Neumonía Viral/cirugía, SARS-CoV-2, Centros de Atención Terciaria/normas, Traqueostomía/normas
Where have the surgical patients gone during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Rev. Col. Bras. Cir; 47 (), 2020
ABSTRACT A Commentary on Emergency Surgery at the Epicenter of the COVID-19 Pandemic....
Sequential battery of COVID-19 testing to maximize negative predictive value before surgeries
Rev. Col. Bras. Cir; 47 (), 2020
ABSTRACT SARS-CoV-2 is a novel virus which has proven to be highly contagious. Specific viral dynamics and immune response to the virus are yet to be fully defined and determining the sensitivity and specificity of the available testing methods is still a work in progress. This study examines the publish...
Formación de Anticuerpos, Betacoronavirus, COVID-19, Prueba de COVID-19, Técnicas de Laboratorio Clínico, Infecciones por Coronavirus/diagnóstico, Infecciones por Coronavirus/inmunología, Procedimientos Quirúrgicos Electivos, Pandemias, Neumonía Viral/diagnóstico, Neumonía Viral/inmunología, Valor Predictivo de las Pruebas, SARS-CoV-2, Esparcimiento de Virus
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...
Nutritional challenges in older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic
Rev. Nutr. (Online); 33 (), 2020
ABSTRACT It has been documented that the older adults of the population are at the greatest risk of mortality due to the coronavirus disease; consequently, they could be the population most affected by the measures of social isolation and reduction of virus contagion implemented worldwide. Social isolati...
Surveillance of the first cases of COVID-19 in Sergipe using a prospective spatiotemporal analysis: the spatial dispersion and its public health implications
Rev. Soc. Bras. Med. Trop; 53 (), 2020
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...
Imputation method to reduce undetected severe acute respiratory infection cases during the coronavirus disease outbreak in Brazil
Rev. Soc. Bras. Med. Trop; 53 (), 2020
Abstract INTRODUCTION: The coronavirus disease (COVD-19) outbreak has overburdened the surveillance of severe acute respiratory infections (SARIs), including the laboratory network. This study was aimed at correcting the absence of laboratory results of reported SARI deaths. METHODS: The imputation met...
Laboratory diagnosis for Covid-19: A mini-review
Rev. Soc. Bras. Med. Trop; 53 (), 2020
Abstract Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a pandemic caused by a new coronavirus, called SARS-CoV-2. This disease was first identified in December 2019 and rapidly developed into a challenge to the public health systems around the world. In the absence of a vaccine and specific therapies, disease contro...