Los resultados presentados documentan bien los esfuerzos hechos en los países para cumplir con las metas regionales para el desarrollo de recursos humanos en salud durante los últimos años y dan prueba de una conducción efectiva. Cierto, muchas metas todavía quedan a ser cumplidas, pera con pacie...
Passados 23 anos da criação do Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS) pela Constituição Federal, mudanças na legislação foram necessárias para garantir o
fortalecimento e a implementação plena do sistema. Prova dessas transformações, apresentamos a terceira edição da Coletânea de Normas para o Con...
Objetivo: evaluar el impacto de un programa de control de antimicrobianos en pacientes críticos. Métodos: estudio de intervención realizado en las unidades de cuidados críticos del Hospital Docente Clínicoquirúrgico Joaquín Albarrán. Fueron evaluados 35 pacientes en el período preintervención (...
BACKGROUND: Many autogenous and exogenous materials have been frequently used for the production of grafts and implants in rhinoplasties. The ideal graft or implant should be biocompatible, biointegrated, non-absorbable, and easily moldable and should not cause an inflammatory response. Gore-tex, an expa...
BACKGROUND: Immediate or delayed breast reconstruction with tissue expanders can be performed in one or several surgical sessions. We opted to perform breast reconstruction over several sessions. The aim of this study was to report our experiences with the breast reconstruction technique involving Becker...
BACKGROUND: Lower limb amyotrophy is a serious deformity that is often disabling and causes esthetic problems such as asymmetries and changes in the shape and contour of the legs. The present study evaluated the use of silicone implants for the correction of lower limb amyotrophy. METHODS: Women who unde...
The authors present a checklist to be used at the last stage of a preoperative visit for esthetic plastic surgery composed of 29 yes/no questions, four blank spaces for entering data, and one question for ranking the level of risk of deep vein thrombosis. The criteria are divided into three tables relati...