Delirium is a common and severe neuropsychiatric syndrome characterized by acute changes in attention, cognition, consciousness. It can present different clinical forms, including hyperactive hypoactive delirium. Hyperactive delirium increased psychomotor activity, agitation, disruptive behavior, while reduced somnolence, decreased responsiveness. The diagnosis of involves comprehensive evaluat...

Background Vignettes are regularly used in nursing research and education to explore complex clinical situations. However, paper-based vignettes lack realism do not fully recreate the pressures, sights sounds of settings, limiting their usefulness when studying decision-making processes.Aim To discuss approach taken by authors developing implementing audiovisual collect data remotely a qualitat...

Case presentation: 4 year-old male, diagnosed with Cornelia de Lange syndrome (CdLS). Born preterm at 35 weeks of gestation, the baby weighted 1670 kg and remained in ICU for 25 days. At 1 year age he presented a cephalic perimeter 44cm (microcephaly), horizontal nystagmus extreme lateral gaze, slow saccades, hypertonia hyperreflexia on all four limbs dysmorphic features (hypertelorism, wide no...

Introdução: A incidência de agitação pós-operatória em crianças sob anestesia geral é alta, e pode ser manifestada por diversos comportamentos, como choro, irritabilidade, intensa desorientação, que muitos casos, necessita contenção mecânica. O uso dexmedetomidina nessa situação bem descrito vários autores. Este sedativo fornece uma “sedação consciente” ao paciente, onde parecem adormecidos, ma...

conclusions there was a decrease in cognitive function, including attention, visual memory, naming, and executive function, as well as psychomotor function among residents of department of anesthesiology and intensive care, faculty of medicine, universitas indonesia, who underwent 12 working hours. results cognitive stimulation” test revealed statistically significant decrease at sequential ima...

background: strabismus surgery under general anesthesia is one of the most common ophthalmic procedures in children with emergence delirium as an important post-operative complication. additionally, postoperative pain is another important issue which is considered as a contributing factor to emergence delirium. we conducted a study to compare meperidine with paracetamol on postoperative pain an...

Abstract Background Catatonia is a psychomotor syndrome that presents various symptoms ranging from stupor to agitation, with prominent disturbances of volition. Its pathogenesis poorly understood. Benzodiazepines and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) are safe effective standard treatments for catatonia; however, alternative treatment strategies have not been established in cases where these eith...

There are several etiologies for agitation and headache in the recovery room, including preoperative or intraoperative drug administrations, physical disorders such as painful surgical procedures, and finally, unusual consequences of some operations such as subarachnoid hemorrhage after orbital decompression, a disastrous complication that should be particularly considered whenever facing any s...

Daytime performance changes were examined during chronic sleep restriction or augmentation and following subsequent recovery sleep. Sixty-six normal volunteers spent either 3 (n = 18), 5 (n= 16), 7 (n = 16), or 9 h (n = 16) daily time in bed (TIB) for 7 days (restriction/augmentation) followed by 3 days with 8 h daily TIB (recovery). In the 3-h group, speed (mean and fastest 10% of responses) o...

BACKGROUND The main goal of endodontic treatment is to achieve cleaning and shaping prior to the filling process. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to evaluate, using atomic absorption spectrometry, the release of Calcium ions after the use of different chelating agents and protocols of agitation. METHOD Ninety human canine teeth were randomly assigned to one of nine groups (n=10), as follows: 1) ...