RESUMO Competência foi definida como uma síntese de conhecimentos, habilidades e atitudes, que, integrados, propiciam ao indivíduo a utilização integrada dos recursos cognitivos e técnicos para diagnosticar KEYWORDS:-Curriculum.-Competency-Based Education.-Internship and Residency.-Professional Competence.-Educational Measurement. ABSTRACT Competency was defined as a synthesis of knowledge, skills and attitudes that, when integrated, provide the individual with the integrated use of cognitive and technical resources to diagnose, treat and provide more benefits and less morbidity to the patient and reduce cost to the institutions. This definition was subsequently broadened, adding that it is context-dependent, demands experience and the capacity to reflect and continue learning. The aim of this study is to describe the curriculum implemented in the Anesthesiology

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RESUMO Fernandes CR, Ruiz Neto PP -O Sistema Respiratório e o Idoso: Implicações Anestésicas Justificativa e Objetivos -As complicações respiratórias são responsáveis por grande parte dos óbitos após procedimentos c i r ú r g i c o s q u e o c o r r e m n a p o p u l a ç ã o g e r i á t r i c Conteúdo -São apresentadas as alterações respiratórias fisiológicas do envelhecimento. São enfatizadas as alterações de volume e capacidades pulmonares, da mecânica respiratória e de trocas gasosas proporcionadas pela a n e s t e s i a . S ã o a b o r d a d o s a s p e c t o s r e l a t i v o s à morbimortalidade pulmonar pós-operatória em geriatria

BackgroundThere are meta-analyzes in adults demonstrating the benefits of using gabapentin to improve postoperative pain in orthopedic surgeries. In pediatrics, it has never been studied.ObjectivesThe aim of this study was to evaluate the use of gabapentin 10 mg/kg, orally, in postoperative analgesia, hemodynamic stability and its pre/postoperative anxiolytic effect in children subjected to unilateral inferior limb surgery.MethodsWe performed a double-blinded, randomized study. 84 patients in Albert Sabin Children’s Hospital were selected for elective surgery that were divided into 2 groups: gabapentin group, who received gabapentin 1 to 2 hours before the procedure and the control group. Both groups were submitted to the same general anesthesia protocol with 0.125% bupivacaine femoral and sciatic block. Patients received scheduled dipyrone and morphine was used as the rescue analgesic up to 2/2 h. Postoperative pain was assessed using a scale appropriate for age (CRIES, CHIPPS or Wong-Baker face scale). We registered hemodynamic parameters, analgesic consumption and pre/postoperative anxiolytics.ResultsA decrease in pain intensity in the 4th and 8th postoperative hours was observed in gabapentin group, both groups had the same opioid consumption. Children in the gabapentin group had an odds ratio of 25.6 for preoperative sedation and gabapentin promoted reduction of postoperative agitation. During orotracheal intubation the gabapentin group exhibited attenuation of the hemodynamic response.ConclusionsGabapentin was superior to placebo in reducing postoperative pain. Children who received gabapentin were more sedated in the operating room, less agitated in the postoperative period and the autonomic response to intubation was reduced.

Morbid obesity has a profound effect on respiratory mechanics and gas exchange. However, most studies were performed in morbidly obese patients before or after anesthesia. We tested the hypothesis that anesthesia and abdominal opening could modify the elastic and resistive properties of the respiratory system. Eleven morbidly obese and eight normal-weight patients scheduled for gastric binding and cancer treatment, respectively, under laparotomy were studied. Respiratory mechanics, partitioned into its lung and chest wall components, were investigated during surgery by means of the end-inspiratory inflation occlusion method and esophageal balloon at five time points. Static respiratory and lung compliance were markedly reduced in obese patients; on the contrary, static compliance of chest wall presented comparable values in both groups. Obese patients also presented higher resistances of the total respiratory system, lung and chest wall, as well as "additional" lung resistance. Mainly in obese patients, laparotomy provoked a significant increase in lung compliance and decrease in "additional" lung resistance 1 h after the peritoneum was opened, which returned to original values after the peritoneum had been closed (P < 0.005). In obese patients, low respiratory compliance and higher airway resistance were mainly determined by the lung component.

RESUMO O ensino médico sofreu intensas modificações nos últimos anos. A rápida evolução do conhecimento

The esophageal balloon is the most common method to obtain indirect pleural pressure. In sedated or anesthetized patients without major respiratory compliance changes, esophageal pressure variation corresponds to pleural pressure variation when PEEP is applied.

It has been suggested that malignant hyperthermia and exercise-induced rhabdomyolysis are closely related syndromes. Patient died before any specific investigation of malignant hyperthermia, but it is important to look for susceptibility for this syndrome within the family to avoid potentially life-threatening anesthetic events.