* Specialist in Clinical and Educational Audiology at the Craniofacial Anomalies Rehabilitation Hospital of the University of São Paulo (HRAC-USP) and Master’s Degree in “General Bases of Surgery” at the Medicine College of the Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho” (UNESP campus Botucatu SP). Clinical Phonoaudiologist. ** Doctor’s Degree. Head Professor of the Universidade Es...

1. MSc, Rehabilitation Sciences; Anesthesiologist, Hospital SARAH 2. PhD, Cardiovascular Surgery, Universidade Federal de São Paulo; Full Professor, Anesthesiology, Departament of General Surgery, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPel) 3. PhD, Surgery, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas da Santa Casa de São Paulo; Specialist in Pain Management, Universidade Federal do Rio Gra...

Purpose To date, most studies of integrative health care (IHC) have focused on the experiences of patients and practitioners, often emphasising the tensions between CAM and biomedical cultures. Minimal research has investigated the perspectives of IHC managers. In response, this study explores the perspectives of seven IHC managers working in a diverse range of health care services in Australia...

Introduction Research indicates that stroke can be most effectively managed in defined units with a multidisciplinary team of specialist personnel. 1 Such resources are limited in low and middle income countries, where the rate and burden of stroke is increasing most rapidly. 2 This imbalance has resulted in calls to develop more stroke units 3 , and include local or traditional services within...

It can be said that in today’s world, any person from a 10-yearold child to a 70-year-old man or woman uses a smartphone or laptop or PC for different purposes such as communication, entertainment, doing business, and other daily duties. The lifestyle predominates not only in developed countries but also in developing countries where individuals spend so much time (around 8 hr/ day) for sitting...

OBJECTIVES To describe functional outcomes, care needs and cost-efficiency of hospital rehabilitation for a UK cohort of inpatients with complex rehabilitation needs arising from inflammatory polyneuropathies. SUBJECTS AND SETTING 186 patients consecutively admitted to specialist neurorehabilitation centres in England with Guillain-Barré Syndrome (n = 118 (63.4%)) or other inflammatory polyne...

Introduction. When performed according to the most recent standards, rehabilitation and nebulization enable prevention of progression cystic fibrosis. Aim. The aim study was assess parents’ knowledge concerning disease, education pro-health attitudes, taking care pulmonary equipment, following recommendations on how perform inhalations correctly. Materials methods. Seventy-four parents with at ...

We report on the application of the Trust-Confidence-Distrust (TCD) framework of Gans et al. (2003) to the task of modeling trust relationships in a large metropolitan health service. We investigated the relationships between an acute stroke ward and a specialist stroke rehabilitation ward by examining the patient handover process that links each ward’s activities. The case study provided evide...

Critical illness intersects with the workload of rural doctors in Australia, mostly via their on-call responsibilities to rural hospitals. A significant proportion of these are prehospital incidents - vehicle crashes, farming injuries, bushfire etc. Effective care for such patients requires an integration of prehospital ambulance services, retrieval services and tertiary level trauma services a...