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ResumoObjetivo: a informática hoje participa em vários aspectos de nossa vida cotidiana. Os autores, através deste artigo de revisão, analisam e discutem sua inserção nos consultórios médicos assistenciais e/ou de ensino. Fontes de dados:foram utilizadas informações obtidas através de revisão bibliográfica, não sistemática, abrangendo artigos, normas oficiais, capítulos de livros e anais, realizada, também, por busca direta e de bancos eletrônicos nas bases de dados Medline e Lilacs.Síntese dos dados: o artigo foi estruturado em tópicos, apresentando, inicialmente, uma discussão sobre o prontuário eletrônico, sua história, funções, custos e benefícios, aspectos éticos e legais e suas vantagens e desvantagens. Avalia-se, também, os sistemas de apoio à decisão em medicina frente à quantidade enorme de informações que surgem, a cada ano, na área da saúde. Foi analisado o impacto do uso da Internet na universalização e na democratização do conhecimento e avaliada a telemedicina, que cria novos desafios à prática médica, bem como levanta aspectos éticos importantes como os da "consulta virtual" e, finalizando, descreve-se uma experiência prática de modernização de um ambulatório de ensino em Pediatria, com a introdução das ferramentas de informática e telecomunicação.Conclusões: a área de informática médica hoje dispõe de ferramentas e instrumentos que podem apoiar a organização administrativa da consulta médica, a captura, o armazenamento e o processamento das informações do paciente, a geração do diagnós-tico, a orientação terapêutica e o acesso às informações, visando a melhora do conhecimento médico e a disponibilidade deste conhecimento onde e quando ele for necessário, para uma adequada tomada da decisão.J Pediatr (Rio J) 2003;79(Supl.1):S3-S12: sistemas computadorizados de registros médicos, aplicação de informática médica. AbstractObjective: currently, information technology is part of several aspects of our daily life. The objective of this paper is to analyze and discuss the use of information technology in both medical education and/or medical practice. Sources of data:information was gathered through nonsystematic bibliographic review, including articles, official regulations, book chapters and annals. Direct search and search of electronic databanks in Medline and Lilacs databases were also performed. Summary of the findings: this paper was structured in topics.First, there is a discussion on the electronic medical record. The following aspects are presented: history, functions, costs, benefits, ethical and legal issues, and positive and negative characteristics. Medical decision-support systems are also evaluated in view of the huge amount of information produced every year regarding healthcare. The impact of the Internet on the production and diffusion of knowledge is also analyzed. Telemedicine is assessed, since it presents new challenges to medical practice, and raises important ethical issues such as "virtual medical consultation". Finally, a practical experience of modernization of a pediatric out...

Transesophageal echocardiography can be used to guide central venous catheter placement in congenital heart surgery. Central venous catheters that seem to be located high in the right atrium by chest radiograph in these patients are often actually in the superior vena cava and pose little risk of cardiac perforation.

Twitter, a social media application, has opened up communicative avenues for many stakeholders in the sports industry. The pervasive and rapid emergence of Twitter has given sports business and management researchers an opportunity to explore the strategic exploitation of the application by all kinds of sporting organisations. The purpose of this paper is to assess how sporting organisations’ social media content helps them achieve their strategic goals in terms of engagement and persuasion. To this end, the paper empirically examines how nine national governing bodiesfor various sports in England use Twitter. The study’s results accentuate the opportunities that these organisations have to use Twitter to achieve their ultimate goal of increasing participation in their respective sports. Accordingly, the paper recommends that these sporting organisations adopt proactive approaches to the way they use social media/networking and integrate Twitter into their strategic operations

Ventilatory compromise is infrequent in small infants undergoing transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) examination. Careful ventilatory monitoring rapidly detects changes in ventilation during TEE examination. Small infants who benefit from TEE during heart surgery should not be excluded from receiving a TEE examination because of concern of ventilatory compromise.

Ropivacaine (0.25%, 1 ml/kg) provided adequate postoperative analgesia with no difference from bupivacaine (0.25%, 1 ml/kg) in quality and duration of pain relief, motor and sensory effects, or time to first micturition in our study children.

The relationship between dreams and epilepsy is illustrated by two patients whose awake epileptic seizures and recurrent dreams during night sleep had similar content. In both of our cases the EEG showed right anterior temporal spike discharge, suggesting a role for the temporal lobe in the association between dreams and seizures.

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