Rev Assoc Med Bras
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We analyzed the opinion and understanding of medical students about organ donation and transplantation. ⋯ This data show the great interest and positive attitude of medical students toward organ donation and transplantation, despite the fact that most of them admitted having insufficient knowledge on the subject. A negative attitude by students of the fourth, fifth and sixth year on organ donation to alcohol addicts, non donors, drug users, law offenders and foreigners was also observed.
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Continuous renal replacement therapies (CRRT) are commonly used in the majority of critically ill patients who need dialysis. Treatment success depends on an efficient anticoagulation protocol devised to maintain the dialysis circuit unclotted, with minimal complications such as bleeding due to excessive anticoagulation. Several features can contribute to dialysis circuit thrombosis, such as the speed of pump blood flow, dialysis catheter, type of dialyzer membrane and also, the type of technique prescribed. ⋯ Regional anticoagulation with UFH/protamin now has limited use because of side effects related to protamin. If the patient has contraindication to systemic anticoagulation or if regional anticoagulation with citrate is not available, continuous flushing of circuit dialysis with saline is the only applicable alternative. In patients with contraindication to heparinization, new drugs not yet available in Brazil, such as prostaglandins, recombinant hirudin, argatroban and nafamostat can be used.
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To determine the opinion and knowledge of the population of Curitiba about organ donation and transplantation. ⋯ Most respondents are in favor of organ donation and have a good knowledge of organ donation and transplantation. The majority distrusts Brazilian organization of organ distribution and brain death diagnosis.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
[Comparison between two methods for hemodynamic measurement: thermodilution and oesophageal doppler].
Thermodilution (TD) is the "gold standard method" for hemodynamic monitoring. Some parameters can be measured by Oesophageal Doppler (OD), which is simpler and less invasive. To evaluate the accuracy of OD, we compared this method with TD in measurement of cardiac output (CO). ⋯ Homodynamic measurements with OD have the same accuracy as those with TD and were easily obtained in the 10 patients.
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To determine the prevalence and analyze the profile of patients with pressure sores, focusing on risk factors, the patients' clinical characteristics at a tertiary care center, as well as stage and location of the lesions on the body. ⋯ The affected patients were at high risk of developing pressure sores. Prevalence of these lesions and the clinical and demographic profile of the affected patients are in accordance with the data in literature.