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COVID-19-Related Challenges in Dental Education: Experiences From Brazil, the USA, and Australia

Abstract Objective: To describe and compare how three dental schools from different countries (Australia, Brazil, and the USA) have managed experiences in dental education during the COVID-19 crisis. Material and Methods: It is a descriptive study reporting the experience that three distinct dental sch...

Metáforas de um vírus: reflexões sobre a subjetivação pandêmica

Psicol. soc. (Online); 32 (), 2020
Resumo O presente artigo visa explorar diferentes metáforas acionadas na primeira fase da pandemia do novo coronavírus no Brasil, inspirado na obra de Susan Sontag, A doença como metáfora. As metáforas são ferramentas centrais nos processos de subjetivação da pandemia, do vírus que a causa e da ...

COVID-19 experience among Brasils indigenous people

Primary Health Care in Brasil in the times of COVID-19: changes, challenges and perspectives

SUMMARY The pandemic of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has put pressure on countries' health systems. Although attention is mostly directed at the hospital sector, since many critically ill people will need intensive care, Primary Health Care (PHC) has also been disrupted. In Brasil, a universal and...

Allocation of pharmaceutical resources in maternal and child healthcare institutions during the COVID-19 pandemic

Rev Assoc Med Bras (1992); 66 (Suppl 2), 2020
SUMMARY Since the outbreak of a cluster of patients with pneumonia of unknown cause in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, in December 2019, the disease was later officially named coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), quickly spreadi...

COVID-19 and acute myocarditis: current literature review and diagnostic challenges

Rev Assoc Med Bras (1992); 66 (Suppl 2), 2020
SUMMARY INTRODUCTION In the current literature, there has been an upsurge of cases of COVID-19-induced acute myocarditis. In this case-based review, we aimed to describe the clinical characteristics, imaging findings, and in-hospital course of acute myocarditis. In addition, the limitations of the myoc...

Impact of antihypertensive agents on clinical course and in-hospital mortality: analysis of 169 hypertensive patients hospitalized for COVID-19

Rev Assoc Med Bras (1992); 66 (Suppl 2), 2020
SUMMARY OBJECTIVE Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an emerging health threat caused by a novel coronavirus named severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-COV-2). Previous studies have noted hypertension is associated with increased mortality due to COVID-19; however, it is not clear ...

Speech therapy practice in hospital settings and COVID-19 pandemic

Rev Assoc Med Bras (1992); 66 (Suppl 2), 2020

The diagnostic process of covıd-19 in the emergency department: laboratory and ımaging methods

Rev Assoc Med Bras (1992); 66 (Suppl 2), 2020
SUMMARY OBJECTIVES The 2019 Novel coronavirus disease puts a serious burden on the health system. Therefore, the detection of particularly serious patients at an early stage is extremely important in terms of controlling the outbreak and improving the prognosis. We investigated the role of inflammatory...

Safety alert for hospital environments and health professional: chlorhexidine is ineffective for coronavirus

Rev Assoc Med Bras (1992); 66 (Suppl 2), 2020
SUMMARY An alarming fact was revealed by recent publications concerning disinfectants: chlorhexidine digluconate is ineffective for disinfecting surfaces contaminated by the new coronavirus. This is a finding that requires immediate disclosure since this substance is widely used for the disinfection of h...