Perfil Funcional e Clínico durante o Pré e o Pós-Cirúrgico de Pacientes Oncológicos de Cabeça e Pescoço

Introdução: O câncer de cabeça e pescoço ocupa o sexto lugar das neoplasias mais predominantes no mundo. Pela localização anatômica, essas neoplasias podem promover alterações funcionais importantes, relacionadas à alimentação, respiração e comunicação, afetando a interação social. Objetivo: Caracterizar o perfil funcional e clínico de pacientes com neoplasias malignas de cabeça e pescoço. Método: Estudo transversal, descritivo, quali-quantitativo. Foram avaliadas a goniometria e a dinamometria dos membros superiores, e utilizados a Intensive Care Unit Mobility Scale (ICUMS) para avaliar a mobilidade, o índice de performance de Karnofsky (KPS) e a Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Performance Scale (PS-ECOG), em um hospital público terciário. A coleta ocorreu entre agosto e novembro de 2022. Resultados: Participaram do estudo 39 pacientes do sexo feminino (61,54%) com idade média de 51,51 anos (±16,05). Os fatores de risco mais comuns foram: histórico familiar (53,85%), incidência em Regiões com desigualdade de distribuição de renda (17,95%), em Ceilândia (Região Administrativa do Distrito Federal), e tendo concluído o apenas o ensino fundamental (48,72%). O tumor primário com maior prevalência foi o de tireoide (61,54%), estadiamento T4 (33,33%). No pós-cirúrgico, 10 apresentavam paralisia facial, 11, trismo, 27, escápula alada. A mobilidade no pós-operatório foi mantida durante a internação com ICUMS 10, KPS 90% e PS-ECOG 0-1. Conclusão: A predisposição e o perfil clinico e funcional se correlacionaram com os problemas respiratórios, trismo, paralisia facial, escápula alada e amplitude reduzida de membro superior, como as repercussões mais frequentes, possivelmente decorrentes do tumor ou do tratamento. Entretanto, a mobilidade e a performance pós-cirúrgica não sofreram alterações consideráveis

Effects of blood flow restriction therapy in patients with knee osteoarthritis: protocol for an overview of systematic reviews

BackgroundOsteoarthritis (OA) is the most common and prevalent musculoskeletal disease associated with population aging, negatively impacting function and quality of life. A consequence of knee OA is quadriceps muscle weakness. Musculoskeletal rehabilitation using low load exercises, associated with Blood Flow Restriction (BFR) may be a useful alternative to high load exercises when those cannot be tolerated. Several systematic reviews have reported inconclusive results due to discrepancies in study findings, heterogeneity of results, evaluated time points, and research questions explored.ObjectiveTo perform an overview of systematic reviews with meta-analyses, synthesizing the most recent evidence on the effects of muscle strength training with BFR for knee OA.MethodologySystematic reviews that include primary controlled and randomized clinical trials will be considered for inclusion. Articles will be considered only if they present a clear and reproducible methodological structure, and when they clearly demonstrate that a critical analysis of the evidence was carried out using instrumented analysis. Narrative reviews, other types of review, overviews of systematic reviews, and diagnostic, prognostic and economic evaluation studies will be excluded. Studies must include adults aged 40 years and older with a diagnosis of knee OA. Two authors will perform an electronic search with guidance from an experienced librarian. The following databases will be searched: PubMed via MEDLINE, Embase, CENTRAL (Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials), PEDro, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) via EBSCO host, Web of Science, and the gray literature. The search strategy used in the databases will follow the acronym PICOS (population, intervention, comparison, outcome, and study design). Screening (i.e., titles and abstracts) of studies identified by the search strategy will be selected using Rayyan (http://rayyan.qcri.org). The quality assessment will be performed using the “Assessment of Multiple Systematic Reviews” (AMSTAR-2) tool.Systematic Review RegistrationPROSPERO, CRD42022367209

Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research

Biodiversity loss is one of the main challenges of our time,1,2 and attempts to address it require a clear un derstanding of how ecological communities respond to environmental change across time and space.3,4 While the increasing availability of global databases on ecological communities has advanced our knowledge of biodiversity sensitivity to environmental changes,5–7 vast areas of the tropics remain understudied.8–11 In the American tropics, Amazonia stands out as the world’s most diverse rainforest and the primary source of Neotropical biodiversity,12 but it remains among the least known forests in America and is often underrepre sented in biodiversity databases.13–15 To worsen this situation, human-induced modifications16,17 may elim inate pieces of the Amazon’s biodiversity puzzle before we can use them to understand how ecological com munities are responding. To increase generalization and applicability of biodiversity knowledge,18,19 it is thus crucial to reduce biases in ecological research, particularly in regions projected to face the most pronounced environmental changes. We integrate ecological community metadata of 7,694 sampling sites for multiple or ganism groups in a machine learning model framework to map the research probability across the Brazilian Amazonia, while identifying the region’s vulnerability to environmental change. 15%–18% of the most ne glected areas in ecological research are expected to experience severe climate or land use changes by 2050. This means that unless we take immediate action, we will not be able to establish their current status, much less monitor how it is changing and what is being lostinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research

Biodiversity loss is one of the main challenges of our time,1,2 and attempts to address it require a clear understanding of how ecological communities respond to environmental change across time and space.3,4 While the increasing availability of global databases on ecological communities has advanced our knowledge of biodiversity sensitivity to environmental changes,5,6,7 vast areas of the tropics remain understudied.8,9,10,11 In the American tropics, Amazonia stands out as the world's most diverse rainforest and the primary source of Neotropical biodiversity,12 but it remains among the least known forests in America and is often underrepresented in biodiversity databases.13,14,15 To worsen this situation, human-induced modifications16,17 may eliminate pieces of the Amazon's biodiversity puzzle before we can use them to understand how ecological communities are responding. To increase generalization and applicability of biodiversity knowledge,18,19 it is thus crucial to reduce biases in ecological research, particularly in regions projected to face the most pronounced environmental changes. We integrate ecological community metadata of 7,694 sampling sites for multiple organism groups in a machine learning model framework to map the research probability across the Brazilian Amazonia, while identifying the region's vulnerability to environmental change. 15%–18% of the most neglected areas in ecological research are expected to experience severe climate or land use changes by 2050. This means that unless we take immediate action, we will not be able to establish their current status, much less monitor how it is changing and what is being lost

Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research

Biodiversity loss is one of the main challenges of our time,1,2 and attempts to address it require a clear understanding of how ecological communities respond to environmental change across time and space.3,4 While the increasing availability of global databases on ecological communities has advanced our knowledge of biodiversity sensitivity to environmental changes,5,6,7 vast areas of the tropics remain understudied.8,9,10,11 In the American tropics, Amazonia stands out as the world's most diverse rainforest and the primary source of Neotropical biodiversity,12 but it remains among the least known forests in America and is often underrepresented in biodiversity databases.13,14,15 To worsen this situation, human-induced modifications16,17 may eliminate pieces of the Amazon's biodiversity puzzle before we can use them to understand how ecological communities are responding. To increase generalization and applicability of biodiversity knowledge,18,19 it is thus crucial to reduce biases in ecological research, particularly in regions projected to face the most pronounced environmental changes. We integrate ecological community metadata of 7,694 sampling sites for multiple organism groups in a machine learning model framework to map the research probability across the Brazilian Amazonia, while identifying the region's vulnerability to environmental change. 15%–18% of the most neglected areas in ecological research are expected to experience severe climate or land use changes by 2050. This means that unless we take immediate action, we will not be able to establish their current status, much less monitor how it is changing and what is being lost

O uso do laser de arsenieto de gálio (AS-GA) no processo de reparação muscular do rato

Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Faculdade de Medicina, 2008.Na área da Fisioterapia, buscamos avaliar e reabilitar diversos tipos de afecções, dentre elas as lesões musculares que talvez sejam as mais estudadas. Os recursos utilizados para promover o processo de reparação dessas lesões são diversos, destacando-se a utilização do LASER de baixa potência. Seus efeitos reparativos já são reconhecidos em alguns tecidos, porém, no tecido muscular, ainda não são evidentes. O objetivo do presente estudo foi investigar o processo de reparação do tecido muscular em ratos utilizando 3 doses diferentes do laser de Arsenieto de Gálio (As-Ga) em dois períodos distintos (7 e 14 dias). Para isso, foram utilizados 64 ratos da raça Wistar com peso médio de 379,8 g (269,6g a 450,8g), distribuídos em dois grupos: grupo “A”, tratamento/controle por sete dias, e grupo “B”, tratamento/controle por 14 dias. Esses por sua vez foram subdivididos em grupos de tratamento com doses de 4, 8 e 20 joules/cm2 e grupo controle. Para provocar a lesão muscular, foram realizadas incisões cirúrgicas no dorso de todos os animais retirando-se um fragmento de pele e músculo, com um punch de biópsia de 3 mm de circunferência. Vinte e quatro horas após a operação foi iniciado o tratamento dos animais. O grupo controle recebeu simulações do tratamento. O grupo “A” recebeu tratamento/simulação por sete dias consecutivos enquanto que os do grupo “B” por 14 dias consecutivos. Após esse período, os animais foram eutanasiados e o músculo foi removido para análise. A análise histopatológica foi realizada a contagem de fibras musculares reparadas. Os resultados apresentaram diferenças estatísticas (p < 0,05) no grupo “A” (7 dias), entre os animais que receberam o tratamento com o laser, para os animais do grupo controle. Porém os animais do grupo “B” (14 dias), não foram observados diferenças significantes entre os grupos. Comparando as diferentes doses do laser, não foram observadas diferenças significantes em nenhum dos períodos avaliados. Esses resultados indicam que o tratamento do laser de As-Ga melhora a reparação do tecido muscular, especialmente na primeira semana após o trauma. _______________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACTIn the area of the Phisicalterapy, we search to evaluate and to rehabilitate diverse types of affections, amongst them the muscular injuries that are perhaps studied. The used resources to promote the process of repairing of these injuries are diverse, being distinguished it use of the LASER of low power. Its reparations effect already are recognized in some tissues, however, in the tissue muscular, not yet they are clear. The objective of the present study was to investigate the process of repairing of the tissue muscular in rats being used 3 different doses of the Gallium Arsenide laser (As-Ga) in two distinct periods (7 and 14 days). For this, 64 rats of the Wistar race had been used with average weight of 379,8 g (269,6g a 450,8g), distributed in two groups: group “”, treatment/control per seven days, and group “B”, treatment/control per 14 days. These in turn had been subdivided in groups of treatment with doses of 4, 8 and 20 joules/cm2 and group have controlled. To provoke the muscular injury, the animals had been carried through surgical incisions in the back of all and left one break up of skin and muscle, with one punch of biopsy of 3 mm of circumference. Twenty and four hours after the operation was initiated the treatment of the animals. The group control received simulation from the treatment. The group “A” received treatment/simulation per seven days consecutive whereas from group “B” per 14 days consecutive. After this period, the animals had been died and the muscle was removed for analysis. The histopathological analysis was carried through the repaired muscular staple fibre counting. The results had presented statistical differences (p < 0,05) in the group “A” (7 days), between the animals that had received the treatment with the laser, for the animals of the group have controlled. However the animals of group “B” (14 days), had not been observed significant differences between the groups. Comparing the different doses of the laser, significant differences in none of the evaluated periods had not been observed. These results after indicate that the treatment of the laser of As-Ga improves the repairing of the tissue muscular, especially in the first week the trauma

NEOTROPICAL CARNIVORES: a data set on carnivore distribution in the Neotropics

Mammalian carnivores are considered a key group in maintaining ecological health and can indicate potential ecological integrity in landscapes where they occur. Carnivores also hold high conservation value and their habitat requirements can guide management and conservation plans. The order Carnivora has 84 species from 8 families in the Neotropical region: Canidae; Felidae; Mephitidae; Mustelidae; Otariidae; Phocidae; Procyonidae; and Ursidae. Herein, we include published and unpublished data on native terrestrial Neotropical carnivores (Canidae; Felidae; Mephitidae; Mustelidae; Procyonidae; and Ursidae). NEOTROPICAL CARNIVORES is a publicly available data set that includes 99,605 data entries from 35,511 unique georeferenced coordinates. Detection/non-detection and quantitative data were obtained from 1818 to 2018 by researchers, governmental agencies, non-governmental organizations, and private consultants. Data were collected using several methods including camera trapping, museum collections, roadkill, line transect, and opportunistic records. Literature (peer-reviewed and grey literature) from Portuguese, Spanish and English were incorporated in this compilation. Most of the data set consists of detection data entries (n = 79,343; 79.7%) but also includes non-detection data (n = 20,262; 20.3%). Of those, 43.3% also include count data (n = 43,151). The information available in NEOTROPICAL CARNIVORES will contribute to macroecological, ecological, and conservation questions in multiple spatio-temporal perspectives. As carnivores play key roles in trophic interactions, a better understanding of their distribution and habitat requirements are essential to establish conservation management plans and safeguard the future ecological health of Neotropical ecosystems. Our data paper, combined with other large-scale data sets, has great potential to clarify species distribution and related ecological processes within the Neotropics. There are no copyright restrictions and no restriction for using data from this data paper, as long as the data paper is cited as the source of the information used. We also request that users inform us of how they intend to use the data

NEOTROPICAL ALIEN MAMMALS: a data set of occurrence and abundance of alien mammals in the Neotropics

Biological invasion is one of the main threats to native biodiversity. For a species to become invasive, it must be voluntarily or involuntarily introduced by humans into a nonnative habitat. Mammals were among first taxa to be introduced worldwide for game, meat, and labor, yet the number of species introduced in the Neotropics remains unknown. In this data set, we make available occurrence and abundance data on mammal species that (1) transposed a geographical barrier and (2) were voluntarily or involuntarily introduced by humans into the Neotropics. Our data set is composed of 73,738 historical and current georeferenced records on alien mammal species of which around 96% correspond to occurrence data on 77 species belonging to eight orders and 26 families. Data cover 26 continental countries in the Neotropics, ranging from Mexico and its frontier regions (southern Florida and coastal-central Florida in the southeast United States) to Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, and Uruguay, and the 13 countries of Caribbean islands. Our data set also includes neotropical species (e.g., Callithrix sp., Myocastor coypus, Nasua nasua) considered alien in particular areas of Neotropics. The most numerous species in terms of records are from Bos sp. (n = 37,782), Sus scrofa (n = 6,730), and Canis familiaris (n = 10,084); 17 species were represented by only one record (e.g., Syncerus caffer, Cervus timorensis, Cervus unicolor, Canis latrans). Primates have the highest number of species in the data set (n = 20 species), partly because of uncertainties regarding taxonomic identification of the genera Callithrix, which includes the species Callithrix aurita, Callithrix flaviceps, Callithrix geoffroyi, Callithrix jacchus, Callithrix kuhlii, Callithrix penicillata, and their hybrids. This unique data set will be a valuable source of information on invasion risk assessments, biodiversity redistribution and conservation-related research. There are no copyright restrictions. Please cite this data paper when using the data in publications. We also request that researchers and teachers inform us on how they are using the data

Geoeconomic variations in epidemiology, ventilation management, and outcomes in invasively ventilated intensive care unit patients without acute respiratory distress syndrome: a pooled analysis of four observational studies

Background: Geoeconomic variations in epidemiology, the practice of ventilation, and outcome in invasively ventilated intensive care unit (ICU) patients without acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) remain unexplored. In this analysis we aim to address these gaps using individual patient data of four large observational studies. Methods: In this pooled analysis we harmonised individual patient data from the ERICC, LUNG SAFE, PRoVENT, and PRoVENT-iMiC prospective observational studies, which were conducted from June, 2011, to December, 2018, in 534 ICUs in 54 countries. We used the 2016 World Bank classification to define two geoeconomic regions: middle-income countries (MICs) and high-income countries (HICs). ARDS was defined according to the Berlin criteria. Descriptive statistics were used to compare patients in MICs versus HICs. The primary outcome was the use of low tidal volume ventilation (LTVV) for the first 3 days of mechanical ventilation. Secondary outcomes were key ventilation parameters (tidal volume size, positive end-expiratory pressure, fraction of inspired oxygen, peak pressure, plateau pressure, driving pressure, and respiratory rate), patient characteristics, the risk for and actual development of acute respiratory distress syndrome after the first day of ventilation, duration of ventilation, ICU length of stay, and ICU mortality. Findings: Of the 7608 patients included in the original studies, this analysis included 3852 patients without ARDS, of whom 2345 were from MICs and 1507 were from HICs. Patients in MICs were younger, shorter and with a slightly lower body-mass index, more often had diabetes and active cancer, but less often chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and heart failure than patients from HICs. Sequential organ failure assessment scores were similar in MICs and HICs. Use of LTVV in MICs and HICs was comparable (42·4% vs 44·2%; absolute difference -1·69 [-9·58 to 6·11] p=0·67; data available in 3174 [82%] of 3852 patients). The median applied positive end expiratory pressure was lower in MICs than in HICs (5 [IQR 5-8] vs 6 [5-8] cm H2O; p=0·0011). ICU mortality was higher in MICs than in HICs (30·5% vs 19·9%; p=0·0004; adjusted effect 16·41% [95% CI 9·52-23·52]; p&lt;0·0001) and was inversely associated with gross domestic product (adjusted odds ratio for a US$10 000 increase per capita 0·80 [95% CI 0·75-0·86]; p&lt;0·0001). Interpretation: Despite similar disease severity and ventilation management, ICU mortality in patients without ARDS is higher in MICs than in HICs, with a strong association with country-level economic status