O abdómen agudo define-se como uma dor abdominal súbita e abrange um vasto grupo de diagnósticos. A apendicite, compreendida dentro deste conjunto de patologias, é a emergência abdominal cirúrgica mais frequente no mundo epode resultar em elevada mortalidade e morbilidade. Apesar do seu diagnóstico ser clínico, há alguns casos em que é difícil distinguir dos diferentes quadros de dor abdominal. O uso da ecograf...
Introduction: Africa contributes to <10% of the total renal replacement therapy (RRT) patients worldwide. Due to a co‐ operation protocol, Portugal provides RRT and CKD care to patients from some African Countries of Portuguese Official Language (ACPOL). The purpose of this analysis was to describe the clinical characteristics and outcomes of patients from ACPOL who integrated our hemodialysis (HD) program i...
Introduction: Portugal has one of the highest incidences and prevalence of end‐stage kidney disease in Europe, with haemodialysis (HD) being the most common modality of renal replacement therapy. The aim of our study was to analyse a cohort of patients who started HD in a large tertiary care hospital. Methods: Retrospective analysis of all adult individuals who started HD between January of 2014 and December of...
An important way to develop innovation is through organizations’ absorptive capacity (ACAP). ACAP can be understood as the ability of companies to innovate through the application of external knowledge (Cohen & Levinthal, 1990). One hospitality industry that could potentially leverage ACAP is restaurants. Innovation is still scarcely applied in restaurant companies despite the relevance of competitive advantage...
ABSTRACT: This report summarises findings on wind integration from the 17 countries or sponsors participating in the International Energy Agency Wind Technology Collaboration Programme (IEA Wind TCP) Task 25 from 2006–2020. Both real experience and studies are reported. Many wind integration studies incorporate solar energy, and most of the results discussed here are valid for other variable renewables in addit...