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Objective: To analyze the reason why patients sought emergency eye care during the pandemic of COVID-19. Methods: This was a retrospective cross-sectional study based on the analysis of medical records of patients seen at an ophthalmology emergency department of a private service in the city of Santos (SP) between March 11, 2020 and July 16, 2020. Results: A total of 386 patients were seen in the analyzed period. Most appointments (60.36%) were attended by women. People between 19 and 59 years old were the ones who most sought the emergency room (57.25%). When considering the profession of these patients, students and retired people presented the same proportion (10.26%), followed by housewives (6.99%). Of the total number of cases seen, 59 patients were diagnosed with conjunctivitis, while 58 were diagnosed with eye and orbit trauma. Conclusion: In the analyzed period, the ophthalmology emergency care predominantly received women in the age group between 19 and 59 years old, and the most frequent diagnoses were conjunctivitis and trauma. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this article is to analyze the evaluation processes instituted by the National Higher Education Evaluation System (SINAES), under the eyes of managers of Brazilian private higher education institutions (HEIs), from various states of the country, who answered a closed questionnaire: deans, directors, deans, institutional prosecutors and course coordinators. The article comes from a research project that analyzed processes of incorporation, merger and acquisition in higher education in the country. Implemented in 2004, the System consists of three main evaluation components: institutions, courses and student performance. Data collection occurred from August / 2017 to March / 2018. The analyzes show the concerns of these managers, derived from the disagreement with the higher education evaluation model applied by the Ministry of Education (MEC). It is concluded that the SINAES is a merely technical instrument and easy to be circumvented in the incessant search for a satisfactory concept to the HEI and the undergraduate course. Finally, we question the need for the public authorities responsible for evaluating the federal higher education system to present to Brazilian society the challenges posed to the sector in contemporary Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It was attempted at the Veterinary Hospital of UNOESTE, Presidente Prudente, SP, a 5-month-old Persian cat, with main complaint of plate grown dark in right cornea that was increasing progressively in a slow way there are about three months, intense ocular discomfort, epiphora, pain and blepharoespasm. In the clinical exam were observed blackened plate of amorphous characteristic in the center of the cornea, corneal edema and neovascularization. The animal was diagnosed as feline corneal sequestration and suggested the surgical treatment. The surgical technique was of superficial keratectomy, leaving the whole area blackened present in the cornea. After the keratectomy, a conjuntival pediculated flap was accomplished with the intention of repairing the lesion caused in the cornea. The treatment prescribed consisted with the eye drops instillation of condroitin sulfate A associated with ciprofloxacin and diclofenac. The animal returned to every week, for six weeks, for ophthalmic revaluation. With 30 days after surgical the pediculated flap was removing presenting good corneal cicatrisation. The present report had as objective collaborates with the supply of more data for the veterinary ophthalmology on the diagnosis and treatment of the feline corneal sequestration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]