INTRODUCTION The objective of the present study was to evaluate the opinion of Portuguese intensive care physicians regarding 'do-not-resuscitate' (DNR) orders and decisions to withhold/withdraw treatment. METHODS A questionnaire was sent to all physicians working on a full-time basis in all intensive care units (ICUs) registered with the Portuguese Intensive Care Society. RESULTS A total o...

I. INTRODUCTION For TREC 2003 the MultiText Project focused its efforts on the Genomics and Robust tracks. We also submitted passage-retrieval runs for the QA track. For the Genomics Track primary task, we used an amalgamation of retrieval and query expansion techniques, including tiering, term rewriting and pseudo-relevance feedback. For the Robust Track, we examined the impact of pseudo-relev...

Do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders are necessary if resuscitation, the default option in hospitals, should be avoided because a patient is known to be dying and attempted resuscitation would be inappropriate. To avoid inappropriate resuscitation at night, if no DNR order has been recorded, after-hours medical staff are often asked to have a DNR discussion with patients whose condition is deteriora...

Os AA. focalizam a administração de alcalis còm o salicilato, oralmente, costume baseado na presunção de que o bicarbonato protege o estômago, inhibindo a libertação do ácido salicilico. Os AA. fizeram a administração oral e endovenosa de salicilato •de sódio, até o nivel plasmatico alcançar acima de 300 gammas/cc. e mantido a um alto nivel por algumas semanas, numa pequena série de casos, e ve...

In up to 40 percent of patients with acute ischemic stroke, the etiology remains uncertain [1]. The association of a PFO with stroke in a young woman with cerebral arterial embolism was first described in 1877 [2]. Lechat et al. later described the high prevalence of PFO in adults younger than 55 years of age when no identifiable cause of stroke could be identified [3]. They suggested that para...

HAM/TSP: association between white matter lesions on magnetic resonance imaging, clinical and cerebrospinal fluid findings HAM/TSP: associação entre lesões de substância branca à ressonância magnética, achados clínicos e do líquido cefalorraquidiano Marzia Puccioni-Sohler1, Emerson Gasparetto2, Mauro Jorge Cabral-Castro3, Carla Slatter4, Cecilia M. Vidal5, Romeu Domingues Cortes6, Bruce R. Rose...

Disease in Rio Grande do Sul-Brazil: A Comparative Analysis between 2002 and 2014 Iseu Gus1, Rodrigo Antonini Ribeiro2, Sérgio Kato1,4,5, Juliano Bastos2 ̧ Claudio Medina3, Claudio Zazlavsky1, Vera Lucia Portal1, Rita Timmers1, Melissa Medeiros Markoski1, Carlos Antônio Mascia Gottschall1 Instituto de Cardiologia do Rio Grande do Sul Fundação Universitária de Cardiologia1; Universidade Federal d...

An elderly patient who underwent a complex emergency abdominal aneurysmectomy two weeks ago is in coma, ventilator dependent, and in severe multisystem organ failure with a deteriorating prognostic index score. The family has become increasingly hostile towards Dr S. Cold, the consultants, the ICU nurses, and the janitorial staff. An estranged wife has called once to defer decision-making to th...

Este estudo focaliza o comportamento do aço galvanizado em um ambiente marinho corrosivo e no processo de escoamento superficial para o mesmo material que ocorrem em Valparaíso, Chile. O potencial de corrosão e a taxa de corrosão avaliados através de perda de massa foram utilizados para determinar os danos da corrosão para o aço galvanizado. As composições dos produtos de corrosão foram determi...