Health Sciences

Conhecimento dos professores acerca do traumatismo dentário: revisão de literaturateacher knowledge about dental trauma: literature review

The school is a place where children stay for a relatively long period of their lives and where dental injuries can occur. Teachers have the potential to play an important role in preventing this disorder as well as in its early care. The aim of this study was to perform a literature review about teachers' knowledge about dental trauma. For this purpose, an electronic search was performed using the Scielo, PubMed and Lilacs databases. The results indicated that teachers are not able to deal with dental trauma, which demands training programs for teachers from public and private schools.

Indicadores empíricos das necessidades humanas básicas de indivíduos hospitalizados com traumas ortopédicos

Objetivo: identificar os indicadores empíricos das necessidades humanas básicas de indivíduos internados com traumas ortopédicos. Métodos: trata-se de uma pesquisa transversal, exploratória e descritiva, sendo que esse estudo foi realizado a partir do levantamento das produções científicas voltadas a área da enfermagem ortopédica e teve como referencial teórico a Teoria de Wanda de Aguiar Horta. Depois de selecionadas, foram feitas a leitura na íntegra de cada produção científica em busca dos indicadores empíricos referentes aos indivíduos internados em clínica de ortopedia.

Patient safety at samu: diagnosis to propose a project to promote health actions

Objective: To identify the attitudes that evidence the culture of patient safety by professionals of a team of Mobile Emergency Service in the prehospital context. Method: Quantitative, descriptive and cross-sectional study, through the application of the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire, validated and adapted to the Brazilian culture to 105 professionals who worked in a Mobile Emergency Service.

Humanization of birth: perception of nursing academics as for the assistance

Objective: Identify the perception of nursing students during normal delivery care. The study presented an exploratory methodology, qualitative in nature. The work was conducted at Estácio– Ceará University Center, in the city of Fortaleza located in state Ceará. The study population was nursing students. Results: Categories were elaborated from questions analyzed of an instrument for data collection. It was performed a detailed and exhaustive reading of the interview, allowing the participants to understand the subject of the research.

A práxis da enfermagem e saúde coletiva: benefícios para a execução do aleitamento materno

Objective: to describe the experience of nurses in a family health unit through educational activities focused on the benefits of breastfeeding based on the methodology for nursing care in collective health described by Queiroz & Egry. Synthesis of data: an exploratory, descriptive study with a qualitative approach, in the experience report modality, carried out with the participation of 20 participants, belonging to a specific population Family Health Strategy (ESF) in the city of João Pessoa, Paraíba. We followed the collective health method of Queiroz & Egry authors.

True or myth? sternal fractures and aortic rupture - a twenty year study

Aim of the study: To determine the relation between sternal fracture and aortic rupture between Nosocomial and Necrotomic population. Material and Methods: It is a two different group study. Patients admitted with sternal fracture (Nosocomial population NOP) and Necrotomic population NEP. It is a twenty year study. The NOP study includes 134 patients with sternal fracture diagnosed and admitted in the department of Thoracic Surgery of Nicaea –Greece, during a twenty year period.

Advance directives: perception of palliative care nurses

Introduction: A qualitative, exploratory, descriptive study carried out in two public oncology hospitals in the Brazilian northeast. Objective: to understand the perceptions of nurses working in palliative care about the advance directives of the terminal patient. Methodology: the data were obtained by open unstructured interview with 10 nurses and supported in Content Analysis. Results: two themes were constructed in which Nurses' knowledge about the anticipated directives of will and meanings for nurses about the implementation of the anticipated directives in the hospital scope.

Exercício profissional frente o atendimento às crianças e adolescentes vítimas de violência sexual: revisão integrativa

Objetivo: Esta revisão buscou identificar as práticas dos profissionais no atendimento às crianças, adolescentes e suas famílias envolvidas na violência sexual. Método: Estudo de revisão integrativa, com a busca sistemática realizada na Biblioteca Virtual em saúde (BVS), a partir das bases de dados da Literatura Latino-americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde (LILACS) e Medical LiteratureAnalysisandRetrieval System Online (MEDLINE), nos idiomas inglês e português, publicados entre os anos de 2012 a 2017. Resultados: Foram identificados 14 artigos que compuseram a amostra da pesquisa.

Knowledge, attitude and practice regarding gag-reflex in children among post-graduate students of pediatric and preventive dentistry in india- an electronic cross-sectional survey

Introduction: The gag reflex is a usual response for patients, considered to shield the airway and eradicate irritants from the posterior oropharynx and the upper gastro-intestinal tract. Gag reflex is aannoying problem in various dental techniques and may result in a compromised management. If the dentist efforts to recognize the circumstances that trigger disruptive gagging, this may optimize patient care and operational success.