Results: 746

Characteristics and Outcomes of Intensive Care Unit Survivors: Experience of a Multidisciplinary Outpatient Clinic in a Teaching Hospital

Clinics; 72 (12), 2017
OBJECTIVES: To describe the experience of an outpatient clinic with the multidisciplinary evaluation of intensive care unit survivors and to analyze their social, psychological, and physical characteristics in a low-income population and a developing country. METHODS: Retrospective cohort study. Adult s...

Prospective evaluation of vesicourethral anastomosis outcomes in robotic radical prostatectomy during early experience in a university hospital

Int. braz. j. urol; 43 (6), 2017
ABSTRACT Purpose: Robotic assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) presents challenges for the surgeon, especially during the initial learning curve. We aimed to evaluate early and mid-term functional outcomes and complications related to vesicourethral anastomosis (VUA), in patients who underwent RARP, du...

Incorporação do protocolo de lesão por pressão na gerência do cuidado: teoria fundamentada nos dados

OBJETIVO: Compreender o significado da incorporação do protocolo de lesão por pressão na gerência do cuidado realizada pelo enfermeiro. MÉTODO: Pesquisa qualitativa que utilizou referencial metodológico da Teoria Fundamentada nos Dados. A coleta de dados ocorreu por meio de entrevista semiestrutur...

Fenómeno de crowding en central de emergencias: una problemática mundial
Crowding phenomenon in emergency center: a world problem

Percepção da perda auditiva: utilização da escala subjetiva de faces para triagem auditiva em idosos

Resumo A presbiacusia é uma alteração prevalente na população idosa, porém subdiagnosticada, desta forma, é importante aprimorar instrumentos de triagem simples. A escala subjetiva de faces foi proposta como forma de avaliar a autopercepção auditiva do idoso e sua correlação com exames audiol...

Business performance management in university hospitals: a diagnosis in Brazilian institutions

Rev. salud pública; 19 (5), 2017
ABSTRACT Objectives To investigate whether business performance management practices are used by Brazilian federal university hospitals, and if so, to determine which practices are used and explore characteristics that may be related to their adoption. Method Descriptive ex post facto research on the e...

Chronotype and work shift in nursing workers of university hospitals

Rev. bras. enferm; 70 (5), 2017
ABSTRACT Objective: To identify the predominant chronotype in nursing workers who work in surgical clinics of university hospitals and to verify the association with work shift. Method: Cross-sectional study, performed in surgical clinics of university hospitals in the Southern region of Brazil. The sa...

Therapeutic plasma exchange in rheumatic diseases: a university hospital experience

Rev. bras. reumatol; 57 (5), 2017
Abstract Introduction: Each day, evidence accumulates related to the use of therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) in patients with rheumatic diseases. San Ignacio University Hospital has recorded all of the TPE sessions performed by the institution's apheresis group. Objective: To describe the TPE experien...

Epidemiological profile of patients seen in the pre-anesthetic assessment clinic of a university hospital

Rev. bras. anestesiol; 67 (5), 2017
Abstract Objective Assess the demographic and clinical characteristics of surgical patients seen in the Pre-anesthetic Assessment Clinic of the Hospital Universitário Gaffrée e Guinle (APA/HUGG), in order to assist in the pursuit for quality, effectiveness, and resource rationalization of hospital man...

Comparison of waste anesthetic gases in operating rooms with or without an scavenging system in a Brazilian University Hospital

Rev. bras. anestesiol; 67 (5), 2017
Abstract Background and objectives Occupational exposure to waste anesthetic gases in operating room without active scavenging system has been associated with adverse health effects. Thus, this study aimed to compare the trace concentrations of the inhalational anesthetics isoflurane and sevoflurane in ...