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The good, the bad and the ugly: pandemic priority decisions and triage.
In this analysis we discuss the change in criteria for triage of patients during three different phases of a pandemic like COVID-19, seen from the critical care point of view. Availability of critical care beds has become a hot topic, and in many countries, we have seen a huge increase in the provision of temporary intensive care bed capacity. However, there is a limit where the hospitals may run out of resources to provide critical care, which is heavily dependent on trained staff, just-in-time supply chains for clinical consumables and drugs and advanced equipment. In the first (good) phase, we can still do clinical prioritisation and decision-making as usual, based on the need for intensive care and prognostication: what are the odds for a good result with regard to survival and quality of life. In the next (bad phase), the resources are mostly available, but the system is stressed by many patients arriving over a short time period and auxiliary beds in different places in the hospital being used. We may have to abandon admittance of patients with doubtful prognosis. In the last (ugly) phase, usual medical triage and priority setting may not be sufficient to decrease inflow and there may not be enough intensive care unit beds available. In this phase different criteria must be applied using a utilitarian approach for triage. We argue that this is an important transition where society, and not physicians, must provide guidance to support triage that is no longer based on medical priorities alone
The Diagnostic Value of the Sleep EEG With and Without Sleep Deprivation in Patients With Atypical Absences
Concomitância da tireoidite de Hashimoto e o carcinoma diferenciado da tireóide
OBJETIVO: Avaliar a associação da tireoidite auto-imune e o carcinoma diferenciado da tireóide na Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Goiânia-Goiás. MÉTODO: De 1395 tireoidectomias realizadas de 1994 a 2003, foram selecionadas 120 carcinomas diferenciados (27 foliculares e 93 papilíferos). Foram avaliadas as variáveis clínicas (idade e sexo) com apresentação de freqüências e de sumários de medidas-resumo na descrição estatística. Para aferir a associação de tireoidite auto-imune e carcinoma diferenciado da tireóide em função dos achados histopatológicos, utilizou-se tabelas de contingência e análise pelo teste não paramétrico do quiquadrado de Pearson. Em todos os testes estatísticos foi adotado um nível de significância de 5% (p<0,05). RESULTADOS: 11,1% dos carcinomas foliculares e 18,3% dos carcinomas papilíferos estão associados à tireoidite auto-imune. Existe uma relação de freqüências quatro vezes maior da tireoidite auto-imune com o carcinoma diferenciado da tireóide em comparação com outras doenças tireoideanas (16,7% X 3,6%). CONCLUSÕES: Tais resultados permitem inferir que a associação entre a tireoidite auto-imune e o carcinoma diferenciado da tireóide é mais que casual, exigindo uma observação clínico-laboratorial cuidadosa nos portadores da doença auto-imune