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Importância da avaliação e padronização analgésica em serviços

Blood loss and transcapillary refill in uncontrolled treated hemorrhage in dogs

OBJETIVE: This study evaluated retroperitoneal hematomas produced by bilateral injury of iliac arteries (uncontrolled hemorrhage), blood volume loss, transcapillary refill, the effects of volume replacement on retroperitoneal bleeding and the hemodynamic changes with and without treatment. METHODS: Initial blood volume was determined with Tc99m-labelled red cells, and bleeding was evaluated by means of a portab...

Identificación de lesiones en víctimas de accidentes de tránsito: revisión sist...

The objective of this study was to identify the body regions most affected in traffic accident victims and to map the trauma and severity of the lesions. A systematic literature review using key words related to traffic accidents, transportation accidents, wounds and injuries found a total of 248 articles. The electronic bases LILACS, MEDLINE, and PAHO were surveyed between the years 1990 and December 2006. Thi...

Relationship between model of analgesia and injured body part in trauma patients.

Little attention has been paid to the injured regarding pain management in the emergency room. This study aims at identifying relationships between the analgesia model and the body part most severely and frequently injured in traffic accident victims. For the data collection, medical records of 200 patients hospitalized at a reference hospital for trauma victims in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, were used. Anal...

Pain assessment and analgesia in pre-admission care of trauma patients.

Pain is one of the main complaints at admission in emergency services. This article aims at presenting pain assessment methods in trauma patients using objective tools in pre- and intra-hospital settings. The harmful effects of pain in the posttrauma patients, and the benefits of early analgesia are discussed. We found that acute pain in emergency wards is rarely studied in Brazil, which points out a significan...

The "oligoanalgesia problem" in the emergency care

INTRODUCTION: Pain is a common occurrence in trauma victims that provokes harmful effects on the body. However, there is a gap in the literature about this problem, which is still underevaluated and undertreated in Brazil, especially concerning the use of opioids. OBJECTIVES: To estimate pain intensity and the use of analgesia in traffic accident victims. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A prospective study, involving 10...

Intensidade da dor e adequação de analgesia

Trata-se de um estudo inédito em nosso meio, no qual, avaliou-se a intensidade da dor e a adequação da analgesia no setor de emergência. Foram avaliadas 100 vítimas de acidentes de transporte atendidas em um hospital de referência para trauma. A dor foi presente em 90,0% dos casos; 56,0% referiram dor intensa na primeira avaliação e, após três horas de observação, 26,0% permaneceram com dor intensa e 38,0% com ...

Injury severity measures by AIS/90 manual and CAIS/85 chart in head injured pat...

This study was developed in order to compare the use of the ABBREVIATED INJURY SCALE (AIS) and the CONDENSED ABBREVIATED INJURY SCALE (CAIS) as basis to calculate INJURY SEVERITY SCORE (ISS) in head injured patients. The results showed that the ISS value was equivalent in the majority of the patients (58,51%) codified by both scales. Also no statistic differences between the scales were perceived when we compar...