Virtual Environment: assistance in nursing care for the deaf based on the protocol of Primary Care

Objective: Presenting a Virtual Environment (VE) based on the Protocol of Treatment of Hypertension and Diabetes Mellitus type 2, used in Primary Care for evaluation of dietary habits in nursing consultations. Method: An experimental study applied by two nurses and a nurse manager, in a sample of 30 deaf patients aged between 30 and 60 years. The environment was built in Visual Basic NET and offered eight screens about feeding containing food pictures, videos in Libras (Brazilian sign language) and audio. The analysis of the VE was done through questionnaires applied to patients and professionals by the Poisson statistical test. Results: The VE shows the possible diagnostics in red, yellow, green and blue colors, depending on the degree of patients’ need. Conclusion: The environment obtained excellent acceptance by patients and nurses, allowing great interaction between them, even without an interpreter. The time in consultation was reduced to 15 minutes, with the preservation of patient privacy.

Ultra-sonografia virtual: reprodutibilidade intra-observador

OBJETIVO: Analisar a reprodutibilidade intra-observador da ultra-sonografia tridimensional (US3D) real com a US virtual, nas modalidades multiplanar e volumétrica. MATERIAIS E MÉTODOS: Foram examinados, prospectivamente, 132 blocos provenientes de 44 avaliações de 26 conceptos. Dezoito conceptos tinham idade gestacional ecográfica de oito semanas a oito semanas e seis dias, e 26 tinham de dez semanas a dez semanas e seis dias. Realizou-se a US3D, analisando-se: comprimento cabeça-nádega, saco gestacional, saco amniótico, translucência nucal, conduto onfalomesentérico, vesícula vitelínica, membros superiores, membros inferiores, distinção cabeça-tórax, perfil da face, coronal da face, implantação das orelhas, perfil da coluna, coronal da coluna, parede abdominal fechada. Foram obtidos três blocos por concepto para posterior realização da US virtual. A análise estatística foi feita utilizando-se o teste t de Student, o teste de McNemar e o kappa. RESULTADOS: No grupo I, a avaliação ultra-sonográfica 3D real multiplanar versus 3D virtual multiplanar, na análise das variáveis contínuas, evidenciou diferença significativa para todas. Na avaliação das variáveis categóricas, evidenciou-se que todas não apresentaram diferença significativa. No grupo II, a avaliação ultra-sonográfica 3D real volumétrica versus 3D virtual volumétrica demonstrou diferença significativa apenas para a variável implantação de orelhas. Os resultados das análises das variáveis categóricas evidenciaram concordância para a maioria das variáveis analisadas em ambos os grupos. CONCLUSÃO: Há reprodutibilidade intra-observador da US3D com a modalidade virtual, multiplanar e volumétrica.

Realidade virtual e robótica em cirurgia: aonde chegamos e para onde vamos?

Minimally Invasive Surgery, Telesurgery, Robotics and Virtual Reality represent the technological frontiers that have revolutionized operating practices nowadays. These new technologies aim at improving the quality of assistance offered to patients; thus, they demand from the medical staff more effective measures as far as scientific research, training and expenditure of time and financial resources are concerned. In the past, surgeons have led several medical revolutions, such as the use of antiseptic surgical methods by Semelweiss, the use of anesthesia by Warren, antibiotic therapy, the transplants and the onset of the minimally invasive surgery by Mouret and Perissat. The objective of this article is to present the outreach of this new technology which comprises minimal access, computing, robotics and teletransmission. We have concluded that the new technologies developed in the medical field in the last decades, will offer new options and challenges for the treatment of the surgical patient, leading the scientific knowledge to a new era, the one of the virtual environment.

Health facility environment as humanization strategy care in the pediatric unit: systematic review

Objective: To identify and analyze the production of knowledge about the strategies that health care institutions have implemented to humanize care of hospitalized children. Method: This is a systematic review conducted in the Virtual Health Library - Nursing and SciELO, using the seven steps proposed by the Cochrane Handbook. Results: 15 studies were selected, and strategies that involved relationship exchanges were used between the health professional, the hospitalized child and their families, which may be mediated by leisure activities, music and by reading fairy tales. We also include the use of the architecture itself as a way of providing welfare to the child and his/her family, as well as facilitating the development of the work process of health professionals. Conclusion: Investments in research and publications about the topic are necessary, so that, the National Humanization Policy does not disappear and that the identified strategies in this study do not configure as isolated and disjointed actions of health policy.