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OBJETIVO: Refletir acerca das Unidades de Pronto Atendimento 24h como cenário de atuação para a Prática Avançada de Enfermeiros nos serviços de urgência e emergência. MÉTODO: Este estudo utilizou a metodologia de reflexão. RESULTADOS: A Enfermagem de Prática Avançada é uma especialidade em que atuam enfermeiros com conhecimento e habilidades ampliado, capazes de tomar decisões complexas, além de possuírem nível avançado de práticas específicas. Os serviços de urgência e emergência são cenários promissores ao desenvolvimento da Enfermagem de Prática Avançada, incluindo as Unidade de Pronto Atendimento 24h, pela capacidade de atendimentos de alta complexidade e atuação de profissionais altamente capacitados. Portanto, há necessidade de reflexão sobre avanços e entraves na atuação, regulamentação, sobretudo no que se refere a este cenário, pouco discutido no contexto da Enfermagem de Prática Avançada no Brasil. CONCLUSÃO: Existe grande necessidade de ampliação da discussão da Enfermagem de Prática Avançada para os demais níveis de atenção no Brasil. Há serviços com amplo potencial a serem desenvolvidos, sendo um deles as Unidades de Pronto Atendimento 24h. Observa-se que o enfermeiro de práticas avançadas nestes serviços poderá trazer grandes benefícios para a população, além de melhorar a qualidade da assistência, trazendo maior autonomia aos profissionais destes serviços.
OBJECTIVE: To reflect about the Emergency Care Unit an action scenario for the Advanced practice of nurses in emergency and urgency services. METHOD: This study utilized the methodology of reflection. RESULTS: Advanced Practice Nursing is a specialty in which nurses with expanded knowledge and additional skills can make complex decisions in addition to having an advanced level of specific practices. Emergency and urgency services are promising scenarios for the development of Advanced Practice Nursing, including the 24-hour Care Unit, especially due to the capacity of high complexity care and the performance of highly qualified professionals. Therefore, there is a need for reflection on the advances, obstacles in the performance and regulation, especially in relation to this scenario, which is little discussed in the context of Advanced Practice Nursing in Brazil. CONCLUSION: There is a great need to expand the discussion of Advanced Practice Nursing to the other levels of care in Brazil. There are services with vast potential to be developed, one of them being the 24-hour Care units. It is observed that nurses from advanced practices in these services can bring great benefits to the population, in addition to improving the quality of care, bringing greater autonomy for nurses in these services.
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ABSTRACT Leukocyte biomarkers, including the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte (NLR), monocyte-to-lymphocyte-(MLR), platelet-to-lymphocyte (PLR) ratios and systemic immune-inflammation index (SII) have been associated with severity and mortality of patients with COVID-19. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the association of baseline leukocyte biomarkers calculated in the emergency department (ED) with the disease severity and mortality. This was a retrospective cohort study that evaluated 1,535 (mean age 57+18 years) patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection in the ED of a single reference center. Outcomes were severity, defined as intensive care unit (ICU) admission requirement, and in-hospital mortality. All leukocyte biomarkers were calculated in the ED before the hospital admission. Their ability to predict the severity and mortality was measured using receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves. Severity and mortality were observed in 30.9% and 12.6% of the patients, respectively, and were significantly correlated with NLR, MLR, PLR and SII, but only NLR was independently associated with both outcomes on multivariate analysis. Analysis of ROC curves revealed that NLR (0.78 for severity and 0.80 for mortality) and SII (0.77 for severity and 0.75 for mortality) had the best ability to predict mortality, when compared to other ratios. The highest AUC was observed for NLR, employing cut-off points of 5.4 for severity and 5.5 for mortality. Leukocyte biomarkers, particularly NLR, are capable of predicting the severity and mortality of patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection and could be important adjunct tools to identify patients in the ED that are more prone to develop adverse outcomes.
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A policitemia vera (PV) é um transtorno mieloproliferativo das células hematopoiéticas, caracterizada poruma produção anormal e acentuada de eritrócitos, leucócitos e plaquetas. É uma doença rara, com uma incidênciade 2,3/100.000 pessoas por ano. Apresentamos um relato de caso de uma paciente de 45 anos com sintomas,sinais e achados sugestivos de policitemia vera.
The polycythemia vera is a myeloproliferative disturb from haematopoietic cells characterized by abnormal and overstated production of erythrocytes, leukocytes and platelets. It is a rare disease with an incidenceof 2.3/100.000 people per year. We present a case report of a 45 years old patient with symptoms, signs andsuggestive results of polycythemia vera.