Inquérito Nacional de Saúde com Exame Físico: equadramento dos resultados

O INSEF é um estudo epidemiológico observacional, transversal de base populacional, programado e realizado para ser representativo ao nível regional e nacional, com o objetivo de contribuir para melhorar a Saúde Pública e reduzir as desigualdades em saúde, através da disponibilização de informação epidemiológica de elevada qualidade sobre o estado de saúde, determinantes e utilização de cuidados de saúde da população Portuguesa. A população alvo consistiu nos indivíduos entre os 25 e os 74 anos de idade, residentes em Portugal Continental ou Regiões Autónomas há mais de 12 meses, não-institucionalizados, com capacidade para acompanhar a entrevista em língua portuguesa. A presente comunicação descreve a componente metodológica do INSEF para o cálculo dos indicadores para as áreas do Estado de Saúde, Determinantes de Saúde e Cuidados de Saúde Preventivos, nomeadamente a ponderação dos dados amostrais, padronização das estimativas e a estratificação dos indicadores.

Bivalirudin for Alternative Anticoagulation in Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation: A Systematic Review.

BACKGROUND Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) offers therapeutic options in refractory respiratory and/or cardiac failure. Systemic anticoagulation with heparin is routinely administered. However, in patients with heparin-induced thrombocytopenia or heparin resistance, the direct thrombin inhibitor bivalirudin is a valid option and has been increasingly used for ECMO anticoagulation. We aimed at evaluating its safety and its optimal dosing for ECMO. METHODS Systematic web-based literature search of PubMed and EMBASE performed via National Health Service Library Evidence and manually, updated until January 30, 2016. RESULTS The search revealed 8 publications relevant to the topic (5 case reports). In total, 58 patients (24 pediatrics) were reported (18 received heparin as control groups). Bivalirudin was used with or without loading dose, followed by infusion at different ranges (lowest 0.1-0.2 mg/kg/h without loading dose; highest 0.5 mg/kg/h after loading dose). The strategies for monitoring anticoagulation and optimal targets were dissimilar (activated partial thromboplastin time 45-60 seconds to 42-88 seconds; activated clotting time 180-200 seconds to 200-220 seconds; thromboelastography in 1 study). CONCLUSION Bivalirudin loading dose was not always used; infusion range and anticoagulation targets were different. In this systematic review, we discuss the reasons for this variability. Larger studies are needed to establish the optimal approach with the use of bivalirudin for ECMO.

Practice management considerations /

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Finding a doctor for your community /

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Compulsory medical care and the welfare state; an analysis based on a special study of governmentalized medical care systems on the continent of Europe and in England.

"References by chapters": p. 147-152.

Compulsory medical care and the welfare state, an analysis based on a special study of governmentalized medical care systems on the continent of Europe and in England.

"References by chapters": p. 147-152.

The ecological condition of estuaries in the Gulf of Mexico /

"July 1999."

Prevalence of reduced muscle strength in older U.S. adults: United States, 2011-2012 /

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Differences in adult day services center characteristics by center ownership: United States, 2012 /

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Differences in adult day services center participant characteristics by center ownership: United States, 2012 /

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Recent declines in nonmartial childbearing in the United States /

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Special report series.

Nos. 1-2 issued without series note.

An investigation into the epidemiology of phthisis in Great Britain and Ireland, pt. I-III.

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Cerebrospinal fever; studies in the bacteriology, preventive control, and specific treatment of cerebrospinal fever among the military force, 1915-19.

Formerly: Medical Research Committee. National Health Insurance.

Report on the present state of knowledge of accessory food factors (vitamins)

The report is signed on behalf of the committee by F. G. Hopkins, chairman, and by Harriette Chick, secretary.