Caracterização da memória de adultos e idosos hospitalizados

Abstract

ResumoIntrodução: as alterações de memória podem influenciar a comunicação interferindo assim na qualidade de vida do individuo. Objetivo: caracterizar a memória semântica, memória operacional e de curto prazo em adultos e idosos hospitalizados. Materiais e Método: participaram trinta pacientes, adultos e idosos, internados na ala de clínica médica de um Hospital Regional. Todos foram submetidos às provas de recordação de um recado, repetição de palavra e dígitos (ordem direta e inversa), fluência verbal semântica e fonológica e à prova de abstração e memória semântica. Resultados: 76,7% dos pacientes apresentaram alguma dificuldade na recordação do recado. A mediana de pontuação na prova de repetição foi 5,5 para palavras, 5,0 para dígitos e 4,0 para dígitos na ordem inversa. A Fluência Verbal Semântica e Fonológica apresentaram-se relacionadas. Na tarefa de abstração e memória semântica a maior dificuldade foi na interpretação de provérbios populares. Conclusão: um número expressivo de pacientes apresentou dificuldade em alguma das provas de memória.Palavras-chave: Memória; Comunicação; Hospitalização; Fonoaudiologia. AbstractIntroduction: memory alterations influence communication interfering in quality of life. Purpose: characterize the semantic, working and short-term memory in hospitalizes adults and elderly patients. Method: thirty hospitalized adults and elderly, in a regional hospital were submitted to memory tests: message recall, word and digits repetition (direct and reverse order), verbal fluency and phonological and semantic abstraction and semantic memory. Results: 76.7% of patients had some difficulty recalling the message. A median score in repetition test was verified: 5.5 for words, 5.0 to digits in direct order and 4,0 to digits in reverse order. Verbal Fluency Semantic and Phonological proved to be correlated. In abstraction and semantic memory task data indicated more difficulty in proverbs interpretation. Conclusion: a significant number of hospitalized patients demonstrated difficulties in memory tests.

High-temperature X-ray scattering studies of atomic layer deposited IrO2

“…The horizontal arrows point to the axes at the positions of the literature values of the room-temperature unit-cell dimensions. comparable crystallite size growth data are not available, Hackwood et al (1982) noticed that a sputtered amorphous IrO 2 film crystallized at around 300 C, and similar observations were reported for hydrothermal IrO x by da Silva et al (2017) between 300 and 400 C and for mesoporous IrO 2 by Ortel et al (2011) at 450 C, although in the latter case the first signs of crystallization were observed at 300 C by transmission electron microscopy selected-area electron diffraction. In addition, Bernicke et al (2015) noticed initial signs of sintering at 550 C in their porous films.…”

“…New applications were found in the 1980s when electrochromism and applicability for water electrolysis were discovered (Hackwood et al, 1982). Today, the field of possible applications has diversified even further, ranging from the still ongoing electrochromic studies (Wen et al, 2014) and water electrolysis (Rasten et al, 2003;Yagi et al, 2005;Hou et al, 2006;Carmo et al, 2013;Bernicke et al, 2015;Abbott et al, 2016;da Silva et al, 2017) to unitized regenerative fuel cells (Pettersson et al, 2006;Antolini, 2014), pH sensors (Huang et al, 2011) and biosensors (Shim et al, 2012), and, in medicine, cardiovascular stents (O'Brien & Carroll, 2009) and neural stimulation and detection (Cogan, 2008).…”

“…Anodization of an Ir film (Cogan, 2008) and thermal oxidation of metallic iridium (Bayer & Wiedemann, 1975;Chalamala et al, 1999Chalamala et al, , 2000 have been in use for a long period of time. Furthermore, IrO 2 thin films are also deposited hydrothermally (da Silva et al, 2017) using the Adams fusion method (Rasten et al, 2003;Abbott et al, 2016), spray pyrolysis (Patil et al, 2003), electro-deposition (Yagi et al, 2005), sol-gel methods (Bernicke et al, 2015), pulsed-laser deposition (Gong et al, 2009;Hou et al, 2017), laser ablation (Wang et al, 2006;Gong et al, 2013), chemical vapour deposition (CVD) (Liao et al, 2001;Jü rgensen et al, 2017) and atomic layer deposition (ALD) (Hä mä lä inen et al, 2008(Hä mä lä inen et al, , 2014. Among the various thin-film deposition methods, ALD offers unsurpassed conformality and thickness uniformity properties, making it the method of choice for coating highly complex shapes (Ritala & Niinistö, 2009;George, 2010;Leskelä et al, 2014).…”