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Editorial da Edição Especial da CCS2024

O presente número especial resulta da 6.ª edição da Conferência Campus Sustentável (CCS2024), organizada pela Universidade de Aveiro e promovida anualmente pela Rede Campus Sustentável, sob o tema “Ações transformativas da academia com a sociedade para implementação dos Objetivos de Desenvolvimento Sustentável”. Este volume reúne contributos que refletem o objetivo da conferência: mobilizar conhecimento, prátic...

Nanomedicine in oncology: diagnostic breakthroughs and therapeutic Frontiers

Nanomedicine is a multidisciplinary field, offering significant promises for cancer detection and therapy. Nanoparticles (NPs), nanoprobes and nanobiosensors can be tailored to achieve highly sensitive tumor detection by contrast imaging techniques. The application of directed drug delivery for cancer therapies can be achieved via the formulation and tailoring of drug-loaded nanocarriers. NPs have been employed...

Better Care in the End of Life Project

Portrait of the Palliative Needs of an Internal Medicine Service of a Tertiary ...

Introduction: The clinical profile of patients admitted to Internal Medicine services is characterized by increasing frailtyand complexity. The main objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of palliative care needs in an InternalMedicine Service using the NECPAL instrument. Material and Methods: An institutional, clinical, descriptive,observational and cross-sectional study was conducted. Of the ...

Cuidados em fim de vida a pessoas com DPOC

Palliative Care in Stroke Patients: Five Years Retrospective Study of Stroke Pa...

Introduction: The unique characteristics of a stroke patient, due to the sudden onset of severe functional impairment, as well as prognostic uncertainty, increase the necessity of a timely Palliative Care approach. Our objective was to analyze the profile of stroke patients to whom In-Hospital Palliative Care and Support Team evaluation was requested.Methods: Retrospective observational study with a sample comp...

High-Flow Nasal Cannula Oxygen Therapy in A Palliative Care Context at Home, a ...

Dyspnoea is one of the more common symptoms in advance stages of several diseases and its control is crucial for patient comfort. Supplementary oxygen therapy plays an important role on that. In the last years, the use of high-flow nasal cannula oxygen therapy (HFNC) in palliative care has been developed. We present three cases of patients accompanied by the Palliative Care Team who used HFNC for dyspnoea contr...

Palliative Care in Advanced Heart Failure: The Experience of an Intra-Hospital ...

Introduction: Heart failure develops in most chronic heart diseases, and is associated to high morbidity and mortality, aswell as poor quality of life. In advanced stages, patients benefit from an integrated approach from palliative care. This studyaimed to evaluate the intervention of an Intra-Hospital Support Palliative Care Team (IHSPCT) in hospitalized patientswith advanced heart failure, identifying the ma...

Patient centered practice in internal medicine.

We made a cross-sectional study aimed at 50 professionals (18 doctors, 32 nurses) of a tertiary hospital Internal Medicine (IM) ward, focusing the relevant knowledge in various areas of Patient-Centered Care in Chronic Disease: symptom control, pharmacology and palliative prognostic discussion. Almost 98% believe that most patients need strategies for symptomatic care, which died in hospital in considerable suf...