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Quality of Life After Elective Cardiac Surgery in Elderly Patients
Coelho, P; Miranda, L; Barros, P; Fragata, JOBJECTIVES: Cardiac surgery has little effect on life expectancy in elderly patients. Thus, improving the quality of life should be the main factor affecting therapeutic decisions. Most studies on quality of life in elderly patients undergoing cardiac surgery report improvement but have limitations. Consequently, we assessed improvements in the quality of life of elderly patients undergoing elective cardiac sur...
Do Prices Reflect the Costs of Cardiac Surgery in the Elderly?
Coelho, P; Rodrigues, V; Miranda, L; Fragata, J; Pita Barros, PINTRODUCTION: Payment for cardiac surgery in Portugal is based on a contract agreement between hospitals and the health ministry. Our aim was to compare the prices paid according to this contract agreement with calculated costs in a population of patients aged ≥65 years undergoing cardiac surgery in one hospital department. METHODS: Data on 250 patients operated between September 2011 and September 2012 were pr...
Consensos na Gestão Clínica da Via Aérea em Anestesiologia
Órfão, J; Gonçalves Aguiar, J; Carrilho, J; Ferreira, A; Leão, A; Mourato, C; Mexêdo, C; Pereira, C; Vaz, F; Lança, F; Paiva, G; Pires, I; Carvalhas, JOs consensos na gestão clínica da via aérea em anestesiologia pretendem disponibilizar informação, baseada na evidência atual ou, na falta desta, na opinião de peritos, no que respeita à abordagem da via aérea difícil previsível ou não previsível. Reforçamos a importância da avaliação da via aérea e da identificação de potenciais problemas que possam condicionar dificuldade na sua abordagem e a adoção de uma es...
Recomendações perioperatórias para profilaxia do tromboembolismo venoso no doen...
Amaral, C; Reis, J; Guimarães, L; Sá, AC; Moreto, A; Araújo, F; Guimarães, M; Felicíssimo, P; Teixeira, J; Fonseca, C; Miranda, LO propósito destas recomendações é fornecer uma ferramenta fundamentada na evidência científica atual, centrada no doente, que possa ser útil na prática clínica e que contribua para a implementação adequada, sistemática e transversal da profilaxia do tromboembolismo venoso no doente adulto. Foram aprovadas, com o apoio da Sociedade Portuguesa de Anestesiologia, por Consenso Nacional Multidisciplinar entre as es...
Undifferentiated connective tissue disease: a seven-center cross-sectional stud...
Vaz, CC; Couto, M; Medeiros, D; Miranda, L; Costa, J; Nero, P; Barros, R; Santos, MJ; Sousa, E; Barcelos, A; Inês, LThe purpose of this study was to characterize the clinical and serological features of a large cohort of patients with antinuclear antibody (ANA) positive undifferentiated connective tissue disease (UCTD). Consecutive patients with UCTD, followed up at the Rheumatology Clinic of the participating centers, were included. Data from these patients were obtained by clinical evaluation and chart review. All patients...