This study was undertaken to determine the incidence and potential risk factors associated with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) in pediatric oncologic patients undergoing invasive mechanical ventilation and the association between mortality risk factors and ARDS. Retrospective cohort study was conducted using data analysis of patients on admission to the PICU, that were submitted to invasive mechanic...
Objective: To describe the epidemiological profile, the spatial distribution of leprosy cases and the service quality of a Family Health Strategy (FHS) located in Belém, Pará state, from 2008 to 2015. Methodology: Cross-sectional quantitative study, based on Information System and Notifiable Diseases files. The studied population consisted of leprosy cases resident in Belém, notified by an FHS. Through the Kern...
In Brazil, the right to health has constitutional universal provision. However, its incompleteness and the scarcity of structural and human resources leads people who would benefit from access to specific health services, mainly the ones in intensive care need - as currently intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic -, to appeal to judicial way to obtain access to them. The aim of this study was to problematize the ...