Health Sciences

Os eventos adversos na Unidade de Terapia Intensiva (UTI) são extremamente preocupantes, por conta do perfil de gravidade clínica de seus pacientes. Dentre os eventos mais comuns, os casos de Lesão por Pressão (LP) têm uma maior prevalência dentro desse ambiente. Normalmente, estas se encontram sobre proeminências ósseas, resultando da pressão ou de uma combinação entre pressão e forças de torção.

This paper aims to characterize the entrepreneurial profile of students from the first to the tenth semester of the pharmacy course of a private HEI, in Vitória da Conquista. To this end, it sought to identify if the student has entrepreneurial behavioral characteristics (CCE's) that favor the entrepreneurial profile. The results show that students have the ten CCE's, and the opportunity-seeking feature obtained the highest score among students, but the other characteristics need to be improved during the pharmacy course.

Objective: To analyze scientific evidence found in literature about the role of nursing in Mental Health in the Primary Care. Methods: This article is an integrative literature review. To survey articles in the literature, the databases LILACS, SCIELO and BDENF were used. Were found 53 studies, of which 10 met the inclusion criteria. Results: From the analysis of scientific productions, it was possible to verify that most nurses feel unprepared to work in the area of mental health in primary care, or even those who said they feel prepared, few were able to detail this knowledge.

Objectives: To identify in scientific productions, which are the main challenges that network professionals face regarding the referral and counter-referral process. Methodology: This study is an integrative literature review, conducted in the first half of 2018, at the Virtual Health Library (VHL), based on the Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Literature, Data Base on the Nursing (BDENF), and MEDLINE (Online Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System). After considering inclusion and exclusion, they were used and analyzed through a synoptic table.

In this study, videotapes of play interactions were coded for the behaviors of 4- to 6-year-old nonverbal children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD)(i.e., looking at the adult, initiating, imitating, and being playful) and their mothers’ and an imitative examiner’s behaviors (i.e. demonstrating, directing, imitating and being playful).ANOVAs revealed that the mothers spent more time demonstrating and directing versus the experimenter who spent more time being playful and imitating the child. The children spent more time looking at their mothers and more time imitating the experimenter.

The current enhancement of appearance, increasingly widespread in the media, has led people to seek to achieve an imposed standard by undergoing a series of procedures to achieve the ideal appearance. Among the recurring and most prevalent discomforts in women, is the fibroid geloid edema- FEG, which is one of the reasons for greater demand for clinical treatment. This study aims to describe the action of manual lmphatic drainage in the treatment of fibroid edema in women in the thigh region.

Esta é uma pesquisa de abordagem qualitativa, do tipo descritiva, que visa avaliar a influência das orientações fornecidas às gestantes durante as consultas de pré-natal nas Unidades de Saúde da Família do Município de Vitória da Conquista – BA, na escolha do tipo de parto e amamentação. A coleta de dados se deu através de entrevistas com gestantes de três Unidades de Saúde da Família, realizadas na sala de espera nos dias da consulta de pré-natal.

Professional manicurists/pedicurists constitute a group at risk of the transmission of infectious diseases. This study analyzed the occupational risks to which they are exposed, the biosafety practices that they undertake, and the serological markers for hepatitis B virus and hepatitis C virus infections. A validated questionnaire was administered to 163 of these professionals and 142 serum samples were obtained from two cities of Goiás state, Brazil.

Objective: to describe and analyze the perception of the multidisciplinary team about the principles that guide palliative care. Method: ethnographic study with qualitative analysis performed with 36 professionals who work in palliative care. Data collection consisted of recorded interviews, guided by a semistructured script and with the help of a field diary. The interviews were analyzed according to the technique of collective subject discourse where the statements present a group idea.

Introduction: The reported rate of infection in the burn units varies considerably. In the new Provincial Burn Unit in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba there is no data available on the infection. Objective: This study characterized the infection from a clinical and epidemiological point of view. Methodology: It was a descriptive, longitudinal and prospective study of adult burn patients with nosocomial infection hospitalized at the Burns Department of Santiago de Cuba from September 2011 to August 2013.