Introduction: Parkinson's disease is a chronic and progressive condition of the nervous system, characterized by cardinal signs of stiffness, akinesia, tremor bradykinesia and postural instability. Objective: This study aims to evaluate the importance of humanized care in elderly patients with Parkinson's disease through a qualified nursing care, indicating solutions that promote the comfort of these patients to improve the quality of life. It is based on the methodological approach of the descriptive type, whose purpose is to observe, describe and document aspects of the situation by addressing the qualitative / quantitative aspects. The work was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the University Center-UniAGES (Paripiranga) under Opinion no. 045/2013. RESULTS: A higher proportion of institutionalized elderly was observed, ranging from 66 to 73 years (60%), the median 75.4, with a prevalence of women (60%). As for marital status, the majority are widowers (60%), and the other unmarried (40%). However, in terms of income, 100% of the sample is retired, with a monthly gain of 1 minimum wage. The pathological profile of the elderly surveyed is mostly cardiovascular diseases (60%), divided in: Cardiopathy (20%), Diabetes Mellitus (40%) and SAH (40%) and Cardiopathy-HAS-DM (20%) and Parkinson's disease (80%). Therefore, it was verified that the majority of the interviewees belonged to the age group of 66-73 years, prevailing to the female population. In this sense, it is estimated that from 10.0 to 25.0% of the above people were 65 years old and 46.0% above the age of 85 years are considered vulnerable to the appearance of undesirable clinical outcomes. Conclusion: The aging process has preoccupied men since the earliest civilizations, so people are looking for ways to overcome the relative difficulties that come with the onset of senility.
COVID-19 is a pathology associated with the new coronavirus that has large-scale dissemination, resulting in a pandemic on 11/03/2020. Thus, it is worth emphasizing the importance of adopting measures such as social distancing, hand antisepsis and the use of masks, special attention with the elderly and people with comorbidities (risk groups), in addition to the relevance of testing, especially of symptomatic patients, as prophylactic measures, contributing to the attenuation of the progress of the pandemic. The general objective of the research is to discuss the physical therapy intervention, highlighting the method of proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation, in view of the neurological manifestations of the central nervous system, with emphasis on stroke, in patients after COVID-19, and as specific objectives to describe the methods of prevention against this disease, to understand the anatomophysiology of the central nervous system, such as discussing about performing neurological physiotherapeutic evaluation in patients after COVID-19, in addition to the methods of diagnosis of this disease, its etiology and biomechanics and to understand how the physical therapist's action occurs in these cases, either in person or by telemonitoring, teleconsultation and teleconsulting due to the current scenario, and can then outline a physiotherapeutic prognosis. Therefore, the present work is an integrative review and for the accomplishment of this study were used the following descriptors: "neurological alterations", "therapeutic performance", "COVID-19", "stroke" and "proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation" in languages such as Portuguese and English. The work was carried out between the months of August and November 2020, since in that period a systematic research was carried out on the topic of work. Studies published between the years 2010 to 2020 were used, but with a predominance of studies from the year 2020, in databases such as: LILACS, MEDLINE/PubMed and SciELO. Therefore, the new coronavirus can cause systemic changes, taking into account especially the neurological manifestations in the central nervous system of patients after COVID-19, requiring neurofunctional evaluation and physical therapy intervention. That said, it is possible to observe that although the main clinical characteristic of COVID-19 is respiratory, there are also neurological complications and in other systems that are related to the presence of receptors for angiotensin-2-converter enzyme, and neurological deficits due to cerebrovascular disease in patients after COVID-19 may occur more pronouncedly in the acute phase and in the most severe form of the disease. Thus, in order to mitigate the severity of neurological complications and sequelae resulting from COVID-19, the physiotherapist participates in both prevention and health promotion, with physical therapy intervention being performed in person or through telemonitoring, teleconsultation and teleconsulting, in search of a promising prognosis for patient’s victims of COVID-19. However, in view of the neurological alterations manifested in patients after COVID-19, the physiotherapist will have an indispensable role to play in order to bring functionality and improve the quality of life of these patients, reinserting them into society after significant rehabilitation.
Factors that lead to the noncompliance of women in the accomplishment of the pap smear in the city of Sitio do Quinto (BA), BrazilIt is of great relevance to achievement of the Pap smear, being that one of the main forms of screening cervical câncer of the uterus, because once, it is discovered early has a high percentage of cure. The Ministry of Health, because of this, implemented the Women's Health Attention policy, with preventive purpose. This type of câncer is most common in women 25-59 years old, standing in third place as the most affected, having as one of its main causes HPV. Thus, this research aims to understand which factors lead women from the town of Sítio do Quinto-BA not to perform the Pap test. 30 users of basic health units were interviewed in their homes and workplace, where the results showed that most of them are between 41-50 years (39%), marital status 43.3% are married, 50% illiterate, have an average household income of 1 minimum wage. In their obstetric 43.3% spoke have 1-2 children, 0-1 pregnancy (23.3%), 63.3% said they had no family history of câncer. 76.6% reported attending the FHP, when questioned how often, 39.1% spoke that sometimes and 39.1% said they always. When asked about the exam 60% said they had never performed, where 31% said the main reason was lack of time. 66.6% claim to know the importance of screening, and were informed through the ACS (community health workers) (52.1%) on the location where the information received 33,35 said it in others, 100% of them They said they had never received the invitation activities of health unit about cervical câncer and screening. Work is quantitative, literature, taking a descriptive, observational statistical analysis of exploratory nature, with an epidemiological study of cross-cutting and stratified sampling. The result of the survey showed that there is a strong relationship between socioeconomic factors carrying out the Pap, and the fragility of the actions related to health promotion in the city.Keywords: Cervical Câncer; Pap Smear; Prevention; Actions. Topic: EnfermagemReviewed anonymously in the process of blind peer.
Relationship between the environment and theCoronavirus: the globalization virus Relações entre o meio ambiente e o Coronavírus: o vírus da globalização Relación entre el medio ambiente y el Coronavirus: el virus de la globalización
ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION: A LITERATURE REVIEW ABSTRACTThe study was developed through bibliographic research, performed at UniAges´s labs. The analysis and the writing of the paper were carried out during the semester 2015-1 for the third period of Nursing class. Myocardial infarction is a myocardial ischemic injury muscle due to lack of blood flow, oxygenation consequently. Disease severity refers the need for new studies and research to clarify and contribute to reduction of index cases, since there is a high prevalence of mortality and morbidity. Undoubtedly only the control of risk factors for acute myocardial infarction can be effective in decreasing mortality rates from cardiovascular causes. Importantly, healthy habits should be maintained throughout life, to protect people from new events. The immediate patient care increases the chances of survival and recovery with minimal consequences.
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