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Perinatal mortality is one of the serious problems that afflict public and private health in Brazil. Its impact is differentiated in each region, but the mortality rate is a general cause of concern and calls for the need to investigate its causes and ways of minimizing it. This study aimed to identify the attitudes of nurses regarding perinatal death and understand the perspective of nurses on the possibilities of reducing perinatal death.

Introduction: De Quervain's tenosynovitis is a stenosing tenosynovitis of the first dorsal compartment of the wrist. Various modalities of treatment include splinting, local corticosteroid injection and surgical decompression. In this prospective study the effectiveness of local corticosteroid injections for de Quervain's tenosynovitis was assessed. Materials and methodology: Fourty five patients were included in the study. All patients included in this study showed no improvement with oral analgesics. Pain and tenderness was recorded as per the VAS scale before the procedure.

Objective: to verify the presence of Burnout Syndrome or signs and symptoms that precede the medical internship students in Bethlehem in the State of Pará, Brazil and Meet the demographic profile of the students of the boarding school doctor (of 9th even to 12th semester) of the medical courses of three institutions of the city of Belém in the State of Pará.

There are approximately 8.5 million Jehovah’s Witnesses (JWs) worldwide, with 101,246 currently live in Korea. JWs have refused allogenic blood transfusion on religious grounds since 1945. This has presented challenges and ethical dilemmas for anesthesiologists and related healthcare staff in providing care to this group. Due to the rapid increase in the membership of JWs in Korea, physicians, especially anesthesiologists, should be prepared to manage JW patients, because they are usually the ones who are responsible for transfusion during the perioperative period.

Oral health care in the first years of life is dependent on what is taught by parents or caregivers. The study aimed to identify the self-perception of oral health of adults and associated variables. It is a cross-sectional and descriptive study with a qualitative-quantitative approach performed with parents of students from a public school in Quixadá-Ceará. A structured questionnaire was applied and then an oral health education activity was carried out.

The objective of this study is to characterize the epidemiological, clinical and obstetric profile of puerperae with the pregnancy-induced hypertension and its perinatal repercussions. A total of 493 pregnant women who delivered from March 2015 to January 2016 were included, and 2% of these pregnant women had twin pregnancies, resulting in 503 newborns. Regarding gestational data, there was a significant incidence of primigravidae. In addition, 95.9% of the patients started prenatal care, but 41.1% had less than 6 visits.

Changing the percentage of vitamin D in the body causes severe organ dysfunction in intensive care patients. This study aimed to characterize the use of vitamin D in sepsis in Brazilian territory, reporting its beneficial effects in intensive care. The methodology used was the systematic review, using PRISMA method to select the studies used. As a result, they found that levels lower than the proposed standards, develop serious alterations in patients in intensive care.

The aim of this prospective study was to determine the relationship between anemia during pregnancy and postpartum depression. Two hundred eighty-one non-anemic mothers with singleton and low-risk pregnancy and no history of antidepressant-use were studied. Demographic and reproductive data at week 24 were obtained. Mothers were followed up and hemoglobin (Hb) was checked at delivery. (20-24) Edinburgh postpartum. Depression Scale (EPDS) was completed 4-6 weeks after delivery. Mean age of the mothers was 26.6±4 years. The prevalence of postpartum depression according to EPDS was 5.5%.

The research aims to analyze the experiences of school-age youth using a "WebRadio", through collective health themes in the promotion of Web care in nursing. The research is of the descriptive exploratory type. In 2014 and 2015, 217 young people from public schools in Ceará participated in the "In Tune with Health" outreach project, broadcast on the Web Radio. The actions were carried out by nursing students, masters and PhD students in nursing from the State University of Ceará (UECE). The interaction occurred through the Webradio, as well as through facebook, twiter, Whatsapp.

Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) is an approach to sick children in an integrated conducted in Puskesmas Singgani but in the achievement of its scope over the last three years has decreased. The coverage of the IMCI is an overview of the performance of health workers in IMCI services. In addition, the number of cases of diarrhea and pneumonia in young children were targeted of IMCI was high. This objective of this research was to identify the factors associated with health worker performance of integrated management services of childhood illness in Puskesmas Singgani Palu.