In the elderly there is a high risk of inappropriate medication and adverse effects of polypharmacy. A 68 year-old female patient resorted to the Emergency Room for suspected stroke. According to the husband, in the six months prior to admission, she became progressively disorientated and dependent. She had resorted to various appointments from different specialties and was polymedicated. It was impossible to c...
Em Portugal, nos últimos 5 anos, arderam cerca de 1 milhão e 600 hectares de floresta. Cerca de 2/3 dos 40 000 bombeiros portugueses (BP) são voluntários e a sua saúde não é monitorizada. Os corpos de 1ª intervenção de combate aos incêndios estão expostos a uma enorme variedade de químicos e poluentes . Estudos recentes consideram a hipótese de que episódios repetidos de exposição ao fumo originam inflamação ...
A monitorização do consumo de antimicrobianos é um instrumento de interesse indiscutível e tem merecido uma atenção particular nos últimos anos, devido às crescentes preocupações com a emergência de estirpes microbianas multi-resistentes. Os objectivos do presente estudo consistiram, por um lado, na monitorização do consumo e na avaliação do impacto económico da prescrição hospitalar de antimicrobianos, em serv...
Emphysematous cholecystitis (EC) is a rare and dramatic disease that requires prompt therapeutic procedures. The authors report a case of a 70-year-old-woman, admitted to the Intensive Care Unit for Infectious Diseases of the Santa Maria Hospital, with the diagnosis of EC. The literature on EC is also reviewed. ; Emphysematous cholecystitis (EC) is a rare and dramatic disease that requires prompt therapeutic p...
A clinical case that occurred in a 42 years old female and which fulfils the diagnostic criteria for the entity described as Heat Stroke is presented. In this case, besides the usual manifestations of hyperpyrexia without sweating along with consciousness disorders, features of consumptive coagulopathy, rhabdomyolysis and well marked laboratory liver dysfunction have also been found. The severity of this situat...
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