Caso clínico: paciente geriátrico

Dissertação para obtenção do grau de Mestre no Instituto Superior de Ciências da Saúde Egas MonizEste caso clínico consiste na reabilitação oral de um paciente geriátrico, apresentando um tratamento multidisciplinar que passa pela área da Periodontologia, Cirurgia, Reabilitação Oral (próteses) e Geriatria. Cada paciente é diferente, e cada caso deve ser examinado consoante as suas limitações e objectivos do paciente. A Geriatria ainda é uma área onde muitos profissionais da área da Medicina Dentária não se sentem à vontade para actuar, sendo necessário adoptar uma abordagem específica para esta faixa etária, não esquecendo a importância da formação dos profissionais de modo a responder às necessidades de saúde oral de uma população em constante envelhecimento. Neste trabalho foram feitas uma breve caracterização do paciente geriátrico e uma abordagem aos cuidados na área da Geriatria. Foram descritas todas as consultas deste paciente, desde o seu primeiro contacto com a clínica universitária até à última consulta de entrega e colocação das próteses. As decisões tomadas no decorrer do caso clínico foram baseadas na literatura produzida nos últimos anos sobre os vários assuntos, tendo cada opção tomada sido fundamentada de acordo com evidências científicas

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Comparison of Methods and Co-Registration Maps of EEG and fMRI in Occipital Lobe Epilepsy

Clinically childhood occipital lobe epilepsy (OLE) manifests itself with distinct syndromes. The traditional EEG recordings have not been able to overcome the difficulty in correlating the ictal clinical symptoms to the onset in particular areas of the occipital lobes. To understand these syndromes it is important to map with more precision the epileptogenic cortical regions in OLE. Experimentally, we studied three idiopathic childhood OLE patients with EEG source analysis and with the simultaneous acquisition of EEG and fMRI, to map the BOLD effect associated with EEG spikes. The spatial overlap between the EEG and BOLD results was not very good, but the fMRI suggested localizations more consistent with the ictal clinical manifestations of each type of epileptic syndrome. Since our first results show that by associating the BOLD effect with interictal spikes the epileptogenic areas are mapped to localizations different from those calculated from EEG sources and that by using different EEG/fMRI processing methods our results differ to some extent, it is very important to compare the different methods of processing the localization of activation and develop a good methodology for obtaining co-registration maps of high resolution EEG with BOLD localizations

Mind the gaps: from formal to informal education - from university to society

Education is an inalienable right of human beings and a fundamental requirement for individuals to have access to goods and services available in society. A formal education hierarchically structured with a chronologically graded ‘education system’, run from primary school through the university. In turn, informal education is a truly lifelong process and enables individuals to acquire attitudes, values, skills and knowledge from daily experience. This work shows how a group of university students enrolled in the graduation program of Biology and Geology at University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, can learn some biochemical subjects by creating 3D pieces. These are both relevant for students´ learning of the particular scientific topic under study but also for promoting and disseminating some informal knowledge about the same topic to different public. In fact, the created objects were exhibited in a public library during 15 days, on behalf of the celebration of The World Water Day, promoted yearly by the United Nations on the 22nd of March. Simultaneously, a set of hands-on activities designed for children between 6 and 10 years old and having as theme “Water – Value the Drop!” was promoted during a Saturday morning of the same week, in collaboration with an association of the undergraduate students enrolled in the degree of Applied Biology, at the same University.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Defining a relevant architecture in South Africa

Architecture in South Africa is at a crossroads. Afteryears of repression and isolation during which contemporary architecture lost its way, there is now a desperate need for architects to respond to the social a nd cultural challenges of a society riven by massive material contrasts. Within architecture schools, a student body more representative of society than hitherto is engaged in projects which reflect the very diverse needs of the community. Central to the effectiveness of such teaching programmes is the presence of teachers fully engaged in practice, creating a responsible architecture fora renewed nation

Do ponto ao espaço: contributo do croché para a matemática do planeta Terra

O projeto "Ponto a Ponto enche a Ciência o Espaço" assenta numa iniciativa intergeracional colaborativa e evidencia a relação entre a Biologia e a Matemática no âmbito da geometria hiperbólica. As atividades desenvolvidas têm por base uma Instalação em croché que recria um recife em coral e procuram proporcionar aos seus participantes ambientes interdisciplinares de ensino e aprendizagem ricos na diversidade, estimulantes e desafiantes, que lhes permitam desenvolver a sua capacidade para explorar, conjeturar e raciocinar logicamente. O tema da Geometria, neste caso particular da geometria hiperbólica, propicia o desenvolvimento dessas competências ao requerer a aprendizagem dos diversos conceitos geométricos, das suas relações e propriedades, aliadas a capacidades, entre outras, de visualização espacial, de raciocínio e de argumentação, identificadas como fundamentais (Vale, 2012).info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Additive Effects of Heating and Exercise on Baroreflex Control of Heart Rate in Healthy Males

This study assessed the additive effects of passive heating and exercise on cardiac baroreflex sensitivity (cBRS) and heart rate variability (HRV). Twelve healthy young men (25±1 yrs, 23.8±0.5 kg/m229 ) randomly underwent two experimental sessions: heat stress (HS; whole-body heat stress using a tube-lined suit to increase core temperature by ~1°C) and normothermia (NT). Each session was composed of a: pre-intervention rest (REST1); HS or NT interventions; post-intervention rest (REST2); and 14 min of cycling exercise [7 min at 40%HRreserve (EX1) and 7 min at 60%HRreserve (EX2)]. Heart rate and finger blood pressure were continuously recorded. cBRS was assessed using the sequence (cBRSSEQ) and transfer function (cBRSTF) methods. HRV was assessed using the indices SDNN (standard deviation of RR intervals) and RMSSD (root mean square of successive RR intervals). cBRS and HRV were not different between sessions during EX1 and EX2 (i.e. matched heart rate conditions: EX1=116±3 vs. 114±3, EX2=143±4 vs. 142±3 bpm; but different workloads: EX1=50±9 vs. 114±8, EX2=106±10 vs. 165±8 Watts; for HS and NT, respectively; P<0.01). However, when comparing EX1 of NT with EX2 of HS (i.e. matched workload conditions, but with different heart rates), cBRS and HRV were significantly reduced in HS (cBRSSEQ = 1.6±0.3 vs. 0.6±0.1 ms/mmHg, P<0.01; SDNN = 2.3±0.1 vs. 1.3±0.2 ms, P<0.01). In conclusion, in conditions matched by HR, the addition of heat stress to exercise does not affect cBRS and HRV. Alternatively, in workload-matched conditions, the addition of heat to exercise results in reduced cBRS and HRV compared to exercise in normothermia

Complementary eigenvalue problem in systems with frictional contact: the stiffness matrix for the contact nodes between different materials

This work addresses a numerical study of static equilibrium states of finite dimensional systems with frictional contact and its application to the particular problem of friction between two geological layers with different viscosity. Its formulation as a complementarity eigenproblem requires the building up of mass M and stiffness K matrices to solve the eigenvalue equations for the relative deformation of two contacting materials.Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT