ANALYSIS OF THE MANAGEMENT INDICATORS OF THE MOBILE EMERGENCY CARE SERVICE OF CEARÁ

Objective: To analyze the health management indicators related to the mobile emergency care service in Ceará.Method: This is a documentary, retrospective, quantitative study, carried out on the IntegraSUS website of the Ceará state government - Brazil, during the period July 2021, to analyze the indicators "total calls" and "average response time".Results: It was verified a profile of prevalent calls for men (52.66%), with advanced age >70 years (22.06%), Covid-19 service occurrences for the Juazeiro central station (7.62%) and motorcycle accidents for the Eusébio central station (7.94%). The service got calls for 177 cities in Ceará (96.19%) with a longer average response time for Covid-19.Conclusion: The analysis signals the need to adjust strategies to improve the performance of the service response time, with a review of the organizational system, including the publication of data by the digital platform

ANÁLISE DOS INDICADORES DE GESTÃO DO SERVIÇO DE ATENDIMENTO MÓVEL DE URGÊNCIAS DO CEARÁ

Objetivo: analisar os indicadores de gestão em saúde relacionados ao serviço de atendimento móvel de urgências do Ceará.Método: trata-se de um estudo documental, retrospectivo, de abordagem quantitativa, realizado no sítio eletrônico IntegraSUS do governo do estado do Ceará - Brasil, no período de julho de 2021, para análise dos indicadores “total de chamadas” e “tempo médio de resposta”.Resultados: verificou-se um perfil de chamadas prevalentes para homens (52,66%), com idade avançada >70 anos (22,06%), ocorrências de atendimento Covid-19 para a Central Juazeiro (7,62%) e acidentes por motocicleta para a Central Eusébio (7,94%). O serviço obteve chamados para 177 municípios cearenses (96,19%) com tempo médio de resposta maior para Covid-19.Conclusão: a análise sinaliza a necessidade de ajuste das estratégias para melhorar o desempenho do tempo-resposta do serviço, com revisão do sistema organizacional, inclusive, da publicização dos dados pela plataforma digital

ANÁLISIS DE LOS INDICADORES DE GESTIÓN DEL SERVICIO MÓVIL DE ATENCIÓN DE URGENCIAS DE CEARÁ

Objetivo: analizar los indicadores de gestión de salud relacionados con el servicio móvil de atención de urgencias en el Estado de Ceará.Método: se trata de un estudio documental, retrospectivo, de abordaje cuantitativo, realizado en el sitio IntegraSUS del gobierno del estado de Ceará - Brasil, en el período de julio de 2021, para el análisis de los indicadores "total de llamadas" y "tiempo medio de respuesta".Resultados: se verificó un perfil de prevalencia de llamadas para hombres (52,66%), con edad avanzada >70 años (22,06%), ocurrencias de asistencia del Covid-19 para la Central Juazeiro (7,62%) y accidentes de motocicleta para la Central Eusébio (7,94%). El servicio obtuvo llamadas para 177 municipios de Ceará (96,19%) con un tiempo medio de respuesta mayor para Covid-19.Conclusión: el análisis señala la necesidad de ajustar las estrategias para mejorar el rendimiento del tiempo de respuesta del servicio, con una revisión del sistema organizativo, incluida la publicación de datos por la plataforma digital

Competências em promoção da saúde nas práticas de educação ambiental de agentes comunitários de saúde

RESUMOObjetivo: Reconhecer domínios de competências em promoção da saúde nas práticas de educação ambiental realizadas pelosagentes comunitários de saúde.Método: Estudo misto, que adotou como referencial teórico o Developing Competencies and Profissional Standards for HealthPromotion Capacity Building in Europe (CompHP), realizado em Crato, Ceará, junto a 16 agentes comunitários de saúde, a partir deentrevista semiestruturada e organização dos dados através do software ALCESTE.Resultados: Foram evidenciados os domínios de competências em promoção da saúde de parceria, possibilidade de mudançase diagnóstico. Reconhecem-se evidências que apontam outros domínios, embora com menor significância estatística, tais como:comunicação, planejamento e implementação, para o desenvolvimento das atividades de educação ambiental.Considerações finais: Há a mobilização de um número limitado de domínios de competências em promoção da saúde nas práticasde educação ambiental desenvolvidas pelos agentes comunitários de saúde, sendo necessária a totalidade destes para concretizar aspráticas de promoção da saúde.Palavras-chave: Promoção da saúde. Agentes comunitários de saúde. Saúde ambiental. Atenção Primária à Saúde. Meio ambiente

Direct evidence for phosphorus limitation on Amazon forest productivity

The productivity of rainforests growing on highly weathered tropical soils is expected to be limited by phosphorus availability1. Yet, controlled fertilization experiments have been unable to demonstrate a dominant role for phosphorus in controlling tropical forest net primary productivity. Recent syntheses have demonstrated that responses to nitrogen addition are as large as to phosphorus2, and adaptations to low phosphorus availability appear to enable net primary productivity to be maintained across major soil phosphorus gradients3. Thus, the extent to which phosphorus availability limits tropical forest productivity is highly uncertain. The majority of the Amazonia, however, is characterized by soils that are more depleted in phosphorus than those in which most tropical fertilization experiments have taken place2. Thus, we established a phosphorus, nitrogen and base cation addition experiment in an old growth Amazon rainforest, with a low soil phosphorus content that is representative of approximately 60% of the Amazon basin. Here we show that net primary productivity increased exclusively with phosphorus addition. After 2 years, strong responses were observed in fine root (+29%) and canopy productivity (+19%), but not stem growth. The direct evidence of phosphorus limitation of net primary productivity suggests that phosphorus availability may restrict Amazon forest responses to CO2 fertilization4, with major implications for future carbon sequestration and forest resilience to climate change.The authors acknowledge funding from the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), grant number NE/L007223/1. This is publication 850 in the technical series of the BDFFP. C.A.Q. acknowledges the grants from Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) CNPq/LBA 68/2013, CNPq/MCTI/FNDCT no. 18/2021 and his productivity grant. C.A.Q., H.F.V.C., F.D.S., I.A., L.F.L., E.O.M. and S.G. acknowledge the AmazonFACE programme for financial support in cooperation with Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) and the National Institute of Amazonian Research as part of the grants CAPES-INPA/88887.154643/2017-00 and 88881.154644/2017-01. T.F.D. acknowledges funds from FundacAo de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de SAo Paulo (FAPESP), grant 2015/50488-5, and the Partnership for Enhanced Engagement in Research (PEER) programme grant AID-OAA-A-11-00012. L.E.O.C.A. thanks CNPq (314416/2020-0)

Pineocitoma causando Hidrocefalia: Pineocytoma causing Hydrocephalus

Introdução: O Pineocitoma é um tumor do sistema nervoso central de caráter benigno. Esse tipo histológico é infrequente correspondendo menos de 1% dos tumores intracranianos. A clínica apresenta desde hipertensão intracraniana até compressão de estruturas nervosas, associado a uma altíssima taxa de morbidade e mortalidade. Apresentação do caso: Paciente com 23anos, sexo feminino, procurou serviço de emergência médica referindo cefaleia intensa de escala de dor 8/10, sem fatores precipitantes e sem melhora com uso de analgésicos ou anti-inflamatório, negou comorbidades e uso de medicações contínuas. Apresenta-se com muita dor, administrando medicação endovenosa para melhorar os sintomas. Foi solicitada uma Tomografia de crânio que evidenciou uma lesão sugestiva de meningioma, paciente foi internada e conduzida para cirurgia para retirada da lesão a qual foi constatada no histopatológico que se tratava de um Pineocitoma. Discussão: o diagnóstico é baseado na clínica, exames de neuroimagem, marcadores tumorais no líquor cefalorraquidiano, o histopatológico já é um exame definitivo, com a tomografia computadorizada de crânio é possível visualizar, massa com contorno bem delimitado, em torno de 3 cm de diâmetro, sendo possível encontrar hidrocefalia associada. O tratamento padrão ouro é ressecção cirúrgica completa, associando a radioterapia e quimioterapia. Conclusão: o tratamento mostra resultado de cura, visto que o Pineocitoma raramente evolui para metástase, resultando em um bom prognóstico devido a evolução tecnológica em tratamento e métodos diagnósticos

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

Direct evidence for phosphorus limitation on Amazon forest productivity

The productivity of rainforests growing on highly weathered tropical soils is expected to be limited by phosphorus availability1. Yet, controlled fertilization experiments have been unable to demonstrate a dominant role for phosphorus in controlling tropical forest net primary productivity. Recent syntheses have demonstrated that responses to nitrogen addition are as large as to phosphorus2, and adaptations to low phosphorus availability appear to enable net primary productivity to be maintained across major soil phosphorus gradients3. Thus, the extent to which phosphorus availability limits tropical forest productivity is highly uncertain. The majority of the Amazonia, however, is characterized by soils that are more depleted in phosphorus than those in which most tropical fertilization experiments have taken place2. Thus, we established a phosphorus, nitrogen and base cation addition experiment in an old growth Amazon rainforest, with a low soil phosphorus content that is representative of approximately 60% of the Amazon basin. Here we show that net primary productivity increased exclusively with phosphorus addition. After 2 years, strong responses were observed in fine root (+29%) and canopy productivity (+19%), but not stem growth. The direct evidence of phosphorus limitation of net primary productivity suggests that phosphorus availability may restrict Amazon forest responses to CO2 fertilization4, with major implications for future carbon sequestration and forest resilience to climate change

Impact of COVID-19 on cardiovascular testing in the United States versus the rest of the world

Objectives: This study sought to quantify and compare the decline in volumes of cardiovascular procedures between the United States and non-US institutions during the early phase of the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the care of many non-COVID-19 illnesses. Reductions in diagnostic cardiovascular testing around the world have led to concerns over the implications of reduced testing for cardiovascular disease (CVD) morbidity and mortality. Methods: Data were submitted to the INCAPS-COVID (International Atomic Energy Agency Non-Invasive Cardiology Protocols Study of COVID-19), a multinational registry comprising 909 institutions in 108 countries (including 155 facilities in 40 U.S. states), assessing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on volumes of diagnostic cardiovascular procedures. Data were obtained for April 2020 and compared with volumes of baseline procedures from March 2019. We compared laboratory characteristics, practices, and procedure volumes between U.S. and non-U.S. facilities and between U.S. geographic regions and identified factors associated with volume reduction in the United States. Results: Reductions in the volumes of procedures in the United States were similar to those in non-U.S. facilities (68% vs. 63%, respectively; p = 0.237), although U.S. facilities reported greater reductions in invasive coronary angiography (69% vs. 53%, respectively; p < 0.001). Significantly more U.S. facilities reported increased use of telehealth and patient screening measures than non-U.S. facilities, such as temperature checks, symptom screenings, and COVID-19 testing. Reductions in volumes of procedures differed between U.S. regions, with larger declines observed in the Northeast (76%) and Midwest (74%) than in the South (62%) and West (44%). Prevalence of COVID-19, staff redeployments, outpatient centers, and urban centers were associated with greater reductions in volume in U.S. facilities in a multivariable analysis. Conclusions: We observed marked reductions in U.S. cardiovascular testing in the early phase of the pandemic and significant variability between U.S. regions. The association between reductions of volumes and COVID-19 prevalence in the United States highlighted the need for proactive efforts to maintain access to cardiovascular testing in areas most affected by outbreaks of COVID-19 infection