Background and objective: Analgesia is of the main goals of anesthesiology. For this purpose, various medications and methods are used. One of these drugs is bupivacaine. Opioids such as sufentanil are used in spinal anesthesia in order to increase the duration of analgesia, reduce the complications, and improve the quality of anesthesia. The present study aimed to compare analgesia with or wit...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate suicide seasonality in the city of São Paulo within an urban area and tropical zone. METHOD Suicides were evaluated using the chi-square test and analysis of variance (ANOVA) by comparing monthly, quarterly and half-yearly variations, differentiating by gender. Analyses of time series were carried out using the autocorrelation function and periodogram, while the signific...

BACKGROUND Much has been written in the educational literature on the value of communities of practise in enhancing student learning. Here, we take the experience of senior undergraduate medical students involved in short-term research as a member of a team as a paradigm for learning in a community of practise. Based on feedback from experienced supervisors, we offer recommendations for initiat...

OBJECTIVE Brain donation and neuropathological examination of brain tissues is the only way to obtain definitive diagnostic information on research subjects enrolled in aging studies. We investigated predictors of brain donation in a population-based study of centenarians in Phase III of the Georgia Centenarian Study (GCS). METHODS Sixty-six individuals (mean age = 100.6 years, 91% female, 20...

BACKGROUND Outcomesforcystic fibrosis patients are improving rapidly. The demographic factors are notable variables inoutcomes, which can be evaluated and modified. OBJECTIVES This study was designed to investigate the association between outcome and demographic factors in patients with cystic fibrosis. PATIENTS AND METHODS This was a cross-sectional study and data were gathered for 331 pat...

Objective: Suicide is one of the most important early causes of death in psychotic patients. The main object of this research was to determine the relationship between positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia and psychotic major depressive disorder (MDD) with suicidal history and risk. Methods: Sixty five patients with schizophrenia compared to 65 patients with psychotic MDD in a cross s...

Background With the emergence of social media, physicians who use social media, including emergency medicine physicians, have shared their experiences with their colleagues instead of working alone and keeping their experiences to themselves. Objective This study aimed to evaluate the rate and type of use of electronic online sources and social media, in order to improve learning and educatio...

BACKGROUND The Second China National Sample Survey on Disability in 2006 showed that the participation rate of disabled Chinese rural individuals in social medical insurance participation was less than 30%. However, there has been limited number of studies on the influencing factors, especially contextual factors, affecting their participation in social medical insurance. Therefore, this study ...