Delayed medical emergency team calls are common and are independently associated with higher mortality. This result reaffirms the concept and need for a rapid response system.

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The Stewart approach, compared to the traditional evaluation, results in identification of more patients with major acid-base disturbances.

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Objective:The study's purpose has been to further understand how a continuous education proposal could contribute to the improvement of professional health knowledge with regards to the palliative care. Methods: It is an action research type with a qualitative approach, which was carried out at a referral hospital in oncology that is locaded in the Southern region of Brazil during the period from April to May 2015. The study was performed through the application of a questionnaire with open questions before and after the education activity, then being analyzed from content analysis of the thematic type. Results: 213 professionals participated. Five thematic categories were constructed, as follows: Professional knowledge before the action: care towards the terminal patient; Professional knowledge before the action: care to the patient without both cure and treatment possibility; Sensitization to the principles of palliative care: the starting point; Safety care: understanding the proposal and its indications; and, Feeling the need to self-learning. Conclusion: It was identified the reduction of professionals insecurity and the improvement of the knowledge. It is important to highlight the larger propagation about this philosophy of care.

Although some faiths in the "other religions" category have millions of adherents around the world, censuses and surveys in many countries do not measure them specifically. Estimates of the global size of these faiths generally come from other sources, such as the religious groups themselves. By far the largest of these groups are Sikhs, who number about 25 million, according to the World Religion Database. For more information, see Spotlight on Other Religions on page 40.

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