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On April 10, 2024, a stray dog was found in the city of Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, with an extremely distended abdomen. Initially, pregnancy was suspected, but a more detailed analysis revealed the presence of mucopurulent function in the vulva, raising the suspicion of Open Pyometra. The chain was taken to the Veterinary Hospital of the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, where it underwent an imaging exam that confirmed the diagnosis of Open Pyometra. After confirmation, the animal was sent to the surgery team. Analgesia and anesthesia were administered under the supervision of an anesthesiologist, and the dog was subsequently prepared for surgical intervention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study addresses the crucial role of nursing in emergency and disaster management, emphasizing the importance of preparedness, training, and effective communication. Through a qualitative literature review, existing literature was analyzed to understand the responsibilities and challenges of nurses in critical contexts. The findings highlight the need for specific disaster management training, including technical and nontechnical skills, and underscore effective communication as essential for a coordinated disaster response. The discussion integrates these results with previous studies, suggesting the implementation of structured training programs and the adoption of uniform policies to improve international disaster preparedness. In conclusion, disaster management preparedness and effective communication are critical for nurses to play a vital role in mitigating public health impacts of disasters, highlighting the importance of continuous learning and adaptation to meet future challenges in emergency care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Nurses in emergency departments are at a high risk of experiencing secondary traumatic stress because of their frequent exposure to trauma patients and high-stress environments. Objective: This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to determine the overall prevalence of secondary traumatic stress among emergency nurses and to identify the contributing factors. Method: We conducted a systematic search for cross-sectional studies in databases such as PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, CINAHL, Wanfang Database, and China National Knowledge Internet up to October 21, 2023. The Joanna Briggs Institute’s appraisal checklists for prevalence and analytical cross-sectional studies were used for quality assessment. Heterogeneity among studies was assessed using Cochrane’s Q test and the I 2 statistic. A random effects model was applied to estimate the pooled prevalence of secondary traumatic stress, and subgroup analyses were performed to explore sources of heterogeneity. Descriptive analysis summarized the associated factors. Results: Out of 345 articles retrieved, 14 met the inclusion criteria, with 11 reporting secondary traumatic stress prevalence. The pooled prevalence of secondary traumatic stress among emergency nurses was 65% (95% CI: 58%–73%). Subgroup analyses indicated the highest prevalence in Asia (74%, 95% CI: 72%–77%), followed by North America (59%, 95% CI: 49%– 72%) and Europe (53%, 95% CI: 29%–95%). Nine studies identified associated factors, including personal, work-related, and social factors. In the subgroup of divided by recruitment period, emergency department nurses in the COVID-19 outbreak period had a higher prevalence of secondary traumatic stress (70%, 95% CI: 62%–78%). Conclusions: Secondary traumatic stress prevalence is notably high among emergency department nurses, with significant regional variations and period differences. The factors affecting secondary traumatic stress also varied across studies. Future research should focus on improving research designs and sample sizes to pinpoint risk factors and develop prevention strategies [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Introduction: This study aimed to build and validate a proposal for safety and emergency material and equipment adjusted to the practice of mountain sports in Portugal. The proposal was developed through documentary analysis, literature review, and expert consultation. Methods: The validation of the contents of the proposal was carried out using the Delphi technique, with the participation of 30 experts, male (N = 18) and female (N = 12), aged between 32 and 61 years (M = 42.50; SD = 7.29), with a mean of 16.63 ± 5.60 years of experience, divided into 4 groups: (i) pre-hospital trainers; (ii) pre-hospital nurses; (iii) pre-hospital physicians; (iv) higher education teachers in the field of mountain sports. The 1st version of the proposal was structured in 7 areas and included 29 items (material and/or equipment). The final version of the proposal was structured in 8 areas (general material, measuring equipment, burns, trauma, respiratory, medication, communications, and survival kit) and included 44 items (material and equipment). Results: The proposal showed Content Validity Index (CVI) values of 100%. Concerning the reliability and validity of the proposal, intraclass correlation coefficient values of 0.986 (excellent) were found for technical importance and 0.983 (excellent) for contextual fit. All values show a high level of inter-expert agreement. Conclusion: The validated proposal will be an appropriate tool for mountain sports technicians to use in order to promote safety, reduce accidents and their consequent morbidity, and reduce the activation of rescue teams. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: This study aimed to build and validate a proposal for safety and emergency material and equipment adjusted to the practice of mountain sports in Portugal. The proposal was developed through documentary analysis, literature review, and expert consultation. Methods: The validation of the contents of the proposal was carried out using the Delphi technique, with the participation of 30 experts, male (N = 18) and female (N = 12), aged between 32 and 61 years (M = 42.50; SD = 7.29), with a mean of 16.63 ± 5.60 years of experience, divided into 4 groups: (i) pre-hospital trainers; (ii) pre-hospital nurses; (iii) pre-hospital physicians; (iv) higher education teachers in the field of mountain sports. The 1st version of the proposal was structured in 7 areas and included 29 items (material and/or equipment). The final version of the proposal was structured in 8 areas (general material, measuring equipment, burns, trauma, respiratory, medication, communications, and survival kit) and included 44 items (material and equipment). Results: The proposal showed Content Validity Index (CVI) values of 100%. Concerning the reliability and validity of the proposal, intraclass correlation coefficient values of 0.986 (excellent) were found for technical importance and 0.983 (excellent) for contextual fit. All values show a high level of inter-expert agreement. Conclusion: The validated proposal will be an appropriate tool for mountain sports technicians to use in order to promote safety, reduce accidents and their consequent morbidity, and reduce the activation of rescue teams.

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Although congenital tracheal anomalies are not very common in veterinary medicine, they are still very important. Just as happens in human medicine, most possible variants are of very striking clinical presentation, due to the respiratory distress produced in patients. All require some type of surgical or minimally invasive correction in order to overcome the acute condition. Below is the case of a 10-month-old male feline that attended the emergency ward with acute inspiratory and expiratory dyspnea, who particularly presented marked inspiratory stridor. As a result of the patient's decease and subsequent necropsy and histopathology it was concluded that he presented segmental congenital tracheal stenosis due to absence of tracheal rings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on the intense demands of caring for others, present in the context of hospital urgency and emergency, this paper explores the work practice of care that physicians perform in this situation. The reflection has the ethics of care in Psychoanalysis as a guiding axis, which matches up with the goal of humanizing care, currently in force in the National Policy for Humanization. It presents the narratives of four resident physicians as witnesses of the undeniable subjective effects undergone in these professional experiences. It concludes that it is essential to implement public policies and institutional actions that take into account the effective caring for the caregiver, thus establishing the validity of another logic not restricted to technical performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Brazil presents in its territory an estimated 1,000,000 occurrences of accidents due to burns per year, and of these cases, only 100,000 are referred to hospital help and approximately 2,500 die due to direct or indirect complications of burns. Mortality from burns increases when other organic structures are compromised. This work aims to carry out a narrative review of the literature regarding the approach and initial assessment of severely burned patients in the hospital emergency department. An electronic search was performed for articles published in journals indexed through the PubMed, ScienceDirect and BVS Saúde databases, using the following combination of descriptors verified in the DeCS/MeSH database: 'emergency medical services' AND 'burn injury' AND 'evaluation'. Studies published between January 2017 and October 2022 were admitted. The observation of the hemodynamic state, the rapid assertive assessment of the degree of impairment and the management of the multidisciplinary health team are fundamental aspects for the improvement of the patient's condition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Moringa oleifera has high potential due to its rusticity and agricultural multiplicity. Studies using sewage water in the cultivation of species have stood out in recent years, because, in addition to being a sustainable alternative, economic, social and environmental benefits for agriculture. Thus, this study aimed to evaluate the physiological quality of moringa seeds with the use of reuse water. The design was DIC, with five treatments: T1 - 100% water supply; T2 - 25% of wastewater + 75% of water supply; T3 - 50% of wastewater + 50% of water supply; T4 - 75% of wastewater + 25% of water supply and 100% wastewater, with four replicates of 50 seeds and the means compared by the Tukey test (P = 0.05). The variables analysed were: emergency test, seedling height (cm), number of leaves, leaf area (cm2), collection diameter (mm), root length seedling (g). The treatments presented significant diferences, with the treatments 100% supply water and 25% wastewater + 75% supply water presenting superior results in relation to the others. It is possible to use wastewater for the production of Moringa oleifera seedlings, as long as the proportion in the irrigation depth does not exceed 25%. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The work reflects on the production of data and management of risks and disasters, in the last decade, in relation to the affectation of older people, especially those residing in Long-stay Institutions for the elderly (LSIE). For this, secondary data, legislation and literature were used. Among the results, for functioning, they must follow the legislation, normative instructions, and resolutions to guarantee protection and care for their residents. In situations of disasters, emergencies and public calamities, the situation becomes complex with the lack of data involving institutionalized elderly, and the lack of guidelines on how ILPIs and services of the elderly care network could proceed, to guarantee the protection of that segment. The article shows that the actions to protect institutionalized older people and monitor the affectation are harmed, because the topic goes unnoticed. To face the challenges of the invisibility of risk and disaster management involving LSIEs, data production, communication, technical-scientific basis in gerontology and civil protection and defense are required, as well as normative instructions to guide LSIEs and public bodies in the prevention, preparation, response and recovery involving this population segment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Security scholars have traditionally viewed emergency as a state of exception that triggers a struggle for survival, justifying the breaking of rules and excesses of state power. While there have been attempts to decouple security from its survivalist logic, emergency has remained an analytical blind spot in security studies. The dominance of an elite-centric, exceptionalist paradigm in the study of emergency has foreclosed the possibility of alternative conceptions of emergency and neglected the voices of structurally disempowered agents. This paper advances a vernacular contextual research agenda that is sensitive to the empirical diversity of emergency meanings and practices while foregrounding emergency claims made by non-elite actors. Challenging the idea of emergency as a form of "anti-politics," the paper contends that emergency should be understood as an intrinsic part of politics. It then recovers an alternative, "emancipatory" conception of emergency as an extraordinary moment of spontaneous beginnings that can activate the collective agency of marginalized actors. The final section establishes conceptual foundations for actor-centered, grounded empirical research into emergency politics and suggests avenues for future research. Contextualizing emergency and attuning to the voices and experiences of everyday actors are crucial to remove the key variable that ties security to the logic of survival and exception. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The emergency unit offers services of high complexity and diversity in the care of patients at imminent risk of life. The advanced technologies used in this service do not always guarantee the quality of the service. This study aims to study the results of nursing care in reducing deaths. Methodology: The data were collected, through analysis of academic articles through readings, there was a need to talk about the importance of advancing nursing in emergency care with an emphasis on the theoretical and practical basis of the nursing team. The study is justified in view of the development of nursing, as a preponderant factor in the issue of nursing in emergency in relation to scientific advancement and the quality of care for patients, in the academic context, together with the decrease in high rates of deaths in emergency hospital. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: The adequate treatment of status epilepticus depends on many factors; among these, the availability of medicines, the experience of who indicates it, who, and where it is applied. Objective: To propose a treatment protocol for children and adolescents in status epilepticus, not including status without motor manifestations or in newborns, which is currently feasible in Cuba. Acquisition of the evidence: The search was carried out in the available databases in Google and PubMed/Medline. Articles in English and Spanish published in the last ten years and others referenced in the reviewed literature were included. Some related to care for adults and children were included due to their importance, but they clarify the position of the authors in both groups. Results: They are based on the published reports and the experience acquired in the Pediatric Neurology Service, in the Emergency Department and in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Juan Manuel Márquez Pediatric Teaching Hospital, since 1990; to try to reduce the time of epileptic activity and thus reduce the risk of mortality, morbidity and improve the quality of life of patients. The use of benzodiazepines was the first recommended treatment option, followed by a second dose, or by IV phenytoin, or the combination, in case of non-control. Conclusions: The use of benzodiazepines (diazepam or midazolam) and IV phenytoin are the drugs of choice in early and established status epilepticus. Next, the administration of other drugs is less well defined. Rectal sodium valproate and enteral topiramate, in status epilepticus, can be considered in Cuba, although they are not included among the most internationally recommended drugs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Nursing technicians are professionals who dedicate most of their working hours to direct patient care, a fact that contributes to a greater probability of being involved in incidents, therefore, the understanding of their routine and their perceptions can facilitate the identification of weaknesses and strengths that make unfeasible and help, respectively, the patient safety culture in this type of service. Goal: To analyze the perception of nursing technicians about safety culture in urgency and emergency. Methods: A cross-sectional study with a qualitative approach, carried out in the urgency and emergency sector of a state hospital in northeastern Brazil. Data collection took place in January and February 2019, for which an open question was asked to the participants. The sample consisted of 88 nursing technicians. Data analysis was carried out with the support of the Interface de R pour les Analyzes Multidimensionneles de textes et Questionnaires software, based on Descending Hierarchical Classification and Similitude Analysis. Results: Through the analysis of the responses, four classes emerged: organizational and people management; perspectives to promote a culture of safety; procedural obstacles in the safety culture and necessary actions to promote the safety culture. Conclusions: It was noted that despite the nursing technicians recognizing the importance of a safety culture, there are still some obstacles to its effective implementation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Acute neuromuscular failure (ANF) has become a common issue in emergency rooms worldwide. A systematic research was done in multiple data sources. A total of 350 articles were found, exclusion criteria were: not-neurological acute respiratory failure, case reports, duplication, and written in languages other than English or Spanish. One hundred and six abstracts of articles that included definition, epidemiology, etiology, physiopathology, and ANF diagnosis were considered, 70 were reviewed. Finally, 32 articles focused on decision-making by non-neurological medical staff were taken. Guillain-Barré syndrome seems to be the most common etiology for ANF in Mexico. Myasthenia gravis, autoimmune and oncologic diseases are also common causes for ANF. The clinical signs for an imminent neuromuscular failure are drop head, faltering speech, nasal voice, and sialorrhea. Early diagnosis of ANF leads to better ANF outcomes; it is necessary to establish an approach for the diagnosis in Mexico. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Frontal bone fractures originate from high-intensity accidents, such as those caused by motor vehicle accidents, which are one of the main etiologies of skull and face fractures. Multidisciplinary approaches in a timely manner are often consolidated as decisive for a good prognosis and survival rate of the patient. Complementary imaging tests are fundamental for the correct diagnosis and surgical planning of these cases. Therefore, several treatment modalities have been described. The objective of the present study is to report a multidisciplinary approach in the emergency care of a polytraumatized patient. Through the coronal access, the brain hematoma was drained, the dura mater was sutured, and the frontal bone was reduced and osteosynthesized. There were no complications or sequelae observed at the two-year follow-up. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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