Adult patients admitted to Intensive Care Units (ICUs) can present different manifestations of Covid-19. These serve as diagnostic clues for the selection of 26 NANDA-I® nursing diagnoses that should be prioritized during nursing care for this population. … Read More →
Hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy surgeries: safety measures for professionals
Heated chemotherapy administered to the abdomen is beneficial to patients, but may pose a risk to professionals in the operating room given the exposure to heated drugs. Among occupational safety measures recommended to professionals involved in the procedure are the education and training of the team, use of personal and collective protective equipment, provision of necessary infrastructure and general guidelines. … Read More →
COVID-19 Affects Perioperative Morbidity and Mortality in Patients Requiring Cardiovascular Surgery
A retrospective Brazilian multicenter cohort study with 104 patients investigated how COVID-19 affects the perioperative period of cardiovascular surgery. Patients with a positive RT-PCR test within ten days before or after surgery and those presenting with positive RT-PCR test > 10 days after surgery showed significantly higher postoperative complications and death. … Read More →
The prognosis of differentiated thyroid cancer is not affected by pregnancy
Pregnancy had no impact on the natural course of differentiated thyroid cancer. Disease progression after pregnancy was limited and probably related to more aggressive disease and higher risk stratification at diagnosis. Still, mild disease progression may have occurred asymptomatically in some patients. … Read More →
What is the entrepreneurial profile of undergraduate nursing students?
Across-sectional study of 239 nursing students was performed. They answered a questionnaire consisting of personal characterization data and the Entrepreneur Profile Assessment tool in an academic environment. The study reinforces the importance of training entrepreneurial nurses as agents that transform reality. … Read More →
Occupational stress in frontline health professionals in combating COVID-19
Occupational stressors in health professionals and interventions aimed at prevention in the context of COVID-19 based on the Betty Neuman Systems Model were identified. Stressors were categorized into intrapersonal, interpersonal and extrapersonal, and interventions were listed according to the level care, i.e., primary, secondary and tertiary. … Read More →
Who are the professionals working in Patient Safety Centers in Brazil?
Adverse Events are incidents that result in harm to the patient therefore, a thorough investigation of these events is necessary. Intensive care nurses trained in the field of Patient Safety lead the investigation process and the London Protocol is the most used tool in health institutions. … Read More →
Multifocality and LN metastasis are independent risk factors for incomplete response in TMC patients
This was a retrospective study that aimed at identifying possible risk factors associated with an incomplete response to therapy in thyroid microcarcinoma (TMC) treated with total thyroidectomy, with or without radioactive iodine (RAI) therapy, reclassified according to the response to treatment into “favorable” (excellent/indeterminate) or “unfavorable” (biochemical/structural incomplete) responses. … Read More →
Results from the ELSA-Brasil trial shows the incidence of thyroid diseases in the country
Results from ELSA-Brasil trial showed a high incidence of hypothyroidism, which is compatible with a country with a more-than-adequate iodine intake. The low women: men ratio of the incidence of thyroid dysfunction highlights the importance of the diagnosis of thyroid diseases among men in the country. … Read More →
Tools of death with a touch of romance: all the amazing things scorpions use their weapons for
In the world of animal weaponry, scorpions stand out by having two separate weapons, used in many different ways. The authors consolidate 150 years of research in the perspectives of feeding, defense and sexually related contests. An exciting guided tour into scorpion weapon biology and a reference for researchers. … Read More →
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