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P-11 EMI-sim: curso de simulação de m emergência implementado num hospital dist...

  Apresentar o curso de Simulação multidisciplinar EMI-Sim criado num hospital distrital como técnica para a melhoria dos profissionais.    • Materiais e Métodos: . Descrever curso, e apresentar resultados de testes, e de questionário de satisfação. Resultados e Discussão: Pré-teste nas 2 primeiras edições com média de 26/30. Pré-teste na 3ª edição com média de 28/35 e teste final  com média de 33/35. Questioná...

Fournier’s Gangrene: 10-Year Experience of a Plastic Surgery and Burns Departme...

Introduction: Fournier gangrene is a polymicrobial life threatening infection of perineal subcutaneous soft tissues with its point of origin in urologic, colorectal or skin diseases. Although more frequent in elderly and men, it can affect all genders and age groups. Perianal abscess, diabetes mellitus and Escherichia coli are the most frequent cause, predisposing comorbidity, and microorganism found in tissue ...

Evaluation of procalcitonin accuracy for the distinction between gram-negative ...

Sepsis is the main cause of death in burns. Early institution of antimicrobial therapy is crucial to optimize outcomes but superfluous therapy increases adverse events, microbial resistance, and costs. Blood cultures are the gold standard for diagnosis but can take 48 to 72 hours. Biomarkers are used to help sepsis diagnosis and distinction between Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacterial cause. The aim of thi...

Checking procalcitonin suitability for prognosis and antimicrobial therapy moni...

Due to greater infection susceptibility, sepsis is the main cause of death in burn patients. Quick diagnosis and patient stratification, early and appropriated antimicrobial therapy, and focus control are crucial for patients' survival. On the other hand, superfluous extension of therapy is associated with adverse events and arousal of microbial resistance. The use of biomarkers, necessarily coupled with close ...

Procalcitonin kinetics after burn injury and burn surgery in septic and non-sep...

Early sepsis diagnosis is crucial for the correct management of burn patients, and it clearly influences outcomes. The systemic inflammatory response triggered by burns mimics sepsis presentation and complicates early sepsis diagnosis. Biomarkers were advocated to aid the diagnosis of early sepsis. Serum procalcitonin (PCT) exhibits fair accuracy and good correlation with sepsis severity, being used in diverse ...

Resultados do 1º Inquérito Nacional sobre Conduta Empresarial Responsável e Dir...

Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in a Burn Unit: Epidemiological Study

Introduction: Besides burn wound infections, burned patients are also more susceptible to other types of nosocomial infections. Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CA-UTI) are one of the most common infections in this context, responsible for high morbidity, increased hospital stay and associated costs. The aim of this study was to characterize catheter-associated urinary tract infections in hospitali...

The antimicrobial effect of wine on Bacillus cereus in simulated gastro-intesti...

This study aimed to evaluate the antimicrobial activity of wine against Bacillus cereus vegetative cells and spores. The results clearly show that wine exerts a strong inactivation effect against vegetative cells of B. cereus. The red wine tested inactivated stationary phase cultures to undetectable numbers in less than 10 s. Thus, further inactivation assays were carried out with wine diluted with water (1:4 a...

Attractor dynamics generates robot formations: from theory to implementation

We show how non-linear attractor dynamics can be used to implement robot formations in unknown environments. The desired formation geometry is given through a matrix where the parameters in each line (its leader, desired distance and relative orientation to the leader) define the desired pose of a robot in the formation. The parameter values are then used to shape the vector fields of the dynamical systems that...