Repositório Científico ESCS

A murine model of elastase- and cigarette smoke-induced emphysema: is it an opportunity to understand CT emphysema in humans?

Autores: Alfredo Nicodemos Cruz Santana

Brazilian version of the Functional Status Score for the ICU: translation and cross-cultural adaptation

Autores: Vinicius Zacarias Maldaner da Silva, Jose Aires de Araújo, Gerson Cipriano et al.

The aim of the present study was to translate and cross-culturally adapt the Functional Status Score for the intensive care unit (FSS-ICU) into Brazilian Portuguese. This study consisted of the following steps: translation (performed by...

Social representations of health councilors regarding the right to health and citizenship

Autores: Luciana Melo de Moura, Helena Eri Shimizu

To know the structure of the social representations of right to health and citizenship of health municipal councilors. This is a qualitative study, based on the central nucleus theory of social representations, carried out in...

Schistosoma mansoni associated glomerulopathy with IgA mesangial deposits: case report

Autores: Fabiana Oliveira Gonçalves, Tânia Maria de Souza Fontes, Ana Paula Pereira Santana Lemes Canuto

Renal involvement is a severe form of schistosomiasis and occurs in 10% to 15% of patients with the hepatosplenic form of the disease. Nephrotic syndrome is the most common clinical presentation. It is a complication...

Early mobilization: Why, what for and how?

Autores: A R Miranda Rocha, B P Martinez, V Z Maldaner da Silva et al.

Early mobilization strategies in the intensive care unit may result in the prevention and reduction of polyneuromyopathy in the critical patient, improved quality of life, shortened ICU and hospital stay, and lesser mortality during hospitalization....

Femoral nerve block versus intravenous fentanyl in adult patients with hip fractures – a systematic review

Autores: Flávia Vieira Guimarães Hartmann, Maria Rita Carvalho Garbi Novaes, Marta Rodrigues de Carvalho

Hip fractures configure an important public health issue and are associated with high mortality taxes and lose of functionality. Hip fractures refer to a fracture occurring between the edge of the femoral head and 5cm...

Noninvasive positive airway pressure: from critically ill patients to physical exercise in outpatients

Autores: Vinicius Zacarias Maldaner da Silva, Alfredo Nicodemos Cruz Santana

Contrast-induced acute kidney injury: the importance of diagnostic criteria for establishing prevalence and prognosis in the intensive care unit

Autores: Edmilson Leal Bastos de Moura, Fábio Ferreira Amorim, William Huang et al.

To establish whether there is superiority between contrast-induced acute kidney injury and contrast-induced nephropathy criteria as predictors of unfavorable clinical outcomes. Retrospective study carried out in a tertiary hospital with 157 patients undergoing radiocontrast infusion...

Epidemiological profile of elderly patients with non-melanoma skin cancer seen at the dermatology outpatient clinic of a public hospital

Autores: Thiara Cristina Rocha Lenzi, Carmelia Matos Santiago Reis, Maria Rita Carvalho Garbi Novaes

Basal cell carcinoma and Squamous cell carcinoma, referred to as non-melanoma skin cancer, are the most common malignancies in humans. Their incidence is increasing worldwide every year. In Brazil, even with the advent of educational...

Undergraduate research in medical education

Autores: Fábio Ferreira Amorim, Levy Aniceto Santana, Ingrid Lazo Toledo et al.