Objectives: To map and examine the scientific evidence concerning effects of cancer treatment on comfort children adolescents with cancer. Materials Methods: This scoping review was carried out in following electronic information resources: BVS, PubMed, Cinahl, SciVerse Scopus, Lilacs, Web Science, Google Scholar. Two independent reviewers analyzed studies’ relevance. Results: The search yielde...

AIM To investigate and present the reasons that cause the postponement of thoracic surgical operations. METHODS We retrospectively included in the study all patients submitted to elective thoracic surgery in our department during the 4-year period 2007-2010 and noted all cases of postponement after official inclusion in the operating schedule. RESULTS 81 out of a total of 542 patients (14.9...

background: pediatric oncology patients frequently need several painful procedures during their diagnostic and therapeutic process. during the past decades, most centers abroad have developed safe and effective protocols for procedural sedation and analgesia in children. this report describes procedural sedation and analgesia as performed in pediatric oncology unit and tries to report success o...

Self-care in post-transplanted patients of hematopoietic progenitors at home is transcendental to improve their health conditions. The purpose the educational activity on self-care establish communicative strategies situation, reducing preventable post-transplant complications and avoiding constant readmissions. personalized counseling provided by nurse patient family members improves quality l...

Background: Pediatric oncology patients frequently need several painful procedures during their diagnostic and therapeutic process. During the past decades, most centers abroad have developed safe and effective protocols for procedural sedation and analgesia in children. This report describes procedural sedation and analgesia as performed in pediatric oncology unit and tries to report success o...

Abstract Objects:Giant cell tumor of bone (GCTB) isa locally aggressive lesion with unpredictable behavior. Here, we aim to evaluate the epidemiological characteristics, clinical and functional outcome of GCTB in a relatively large series of patients. Methods:Patients with the diagnosis of GCTB were included in this retrospective study.Surgical options included extended curettage wh...

This study aimed to evaluate surgical-oncologic patients' quality of sleep through the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) questionnaire. It is an exploratory study with transversal-observational design, in 46 postoperative head & neck and urology cancer patients. The PSQI questionnaire was used to evaluate the subjective quality of sleep and the occurrence of sleep disorders. Six PSQI compon...

Febrile neutropenia in cancer patients is an oncologic emergency, due to immunosuppression that leaves the patient vulnerable bacterial, fungal and viral infections put his life at risk. Therefore, addition timely medical management, adequate nursing care necessary prevent or avoid complications. Objective: To determine relationship between level of knowledge compliance with febrile nurses emer...