Evaluating the Quality of Rigid Optic Videolaryngoscopy Image Taken Through Dental Protection Cap and Its Feasibility as Additional Barrier Method Against COVID-19.

Videolaryngoscopy screening is essential to help assessing human larynx. The use of 70° optical fiber in association with image recording by analog or digital cameras is one of the methods adopted to perform this examination. Endoscopic exams can contaminate the equipment with several microorganisms. The pandemic caused by the new coronavirus reinforces the importance of developing efficient barrier methods to be adopted in videolaryngoscopy procedures. Although dental intraoral camera covers are a barrier method authorized by Brazilian health organs, it has not yet been used in videolaryngoscopy examinations. The aim of the current longitudinal, individualized, single-blind, prospective, self-controlled, and accurate study is to evaluate the quality of images generated through, and confidence level of, diagnosis based on videolaryngoscopy performed with intraoral dental camera equipped with disposable protection cap and connected to 70° rigid laryngoscope in vocally healthy individuals. Videolaryngoscopy examinations based on 70° rigid optics were performed in 13 euphonic and asymptomatic volunteers at an otorhinolaryngology specialist clinic; only 1 patient was excluded from the study. Images were taken with, and without, disposable intraoral dental camera protection cap; high-grade disinfection protocol was applied between examinations. Recorded videos were randomly distributed in a single-blind manner in order to be evaluated by four otorhinolaryngologists, who answered a questionnaire comprising three questions. Statistical analysis was used to compare groups - which were defined by the use, or not, of protection cap - based on Wilcoxon nonparametric test. Statistical significance was set at 5% with 95% confidence interval. There was no statistically significant difference in image quality between examinations performed with, and without, protection cap (P= 0.646) or in the diagnosis confidence level of examinations performed with, or without, the barrier method. The use of disposable protection cap on intraoral dental camera did not significantly change the quality of images taken through videolaryngoscopy performed with 70° rigid optics in vocally healthy patients.

Práticas de letramento e promoção da saúde no ensino superior: efeitos de intervenção intersetorial / Literacy practices and health promotion in higher education: effects of intersectoral intervention

Analisar os efeitos de uma intervenção intersetorial a fim de promover relações e práticas significativas de leitura e escrita com os gêneros acadêmicos (GA) e ressignificar o sofrimento no contexto do ensino superior. Trata-se de uma pesquisa intervenção, qualitativa, junto a alunos do ensino superior. Foram propostos encontros semanais abordando experiências e práticas de leitura e escrita, conhecimento e posições subjetivas dos GA. Ao longo da intervenção evidenciaram-se mudanças nas posições quanto às experiências e condições de letramento que passaram a ser reconhecidas como constituídas histórica e coletivamente. Assim, os acadêmicos ressignificaram suas experiências e avançaram na apropriação dos GA e no enfrentamento do sofrimento vivências acadêmicas. O estudo possibilitou condições e reflexões que culminaram no protagonismo desses estudantes, enfatizando a necessidade da implementação de ações, no âmbito da assistência estudantil, voltadas às condições de letramento.

To analyze the effects of an intersectoral intervention in order to promote meaningful relations and practices of reading and writing with academic genres (AG) and to redefine suffering in the context of higher education. This is a qualitative intervention research with Higher Educationstudents. Weekly meetings were held addressing reading and writing experiences and practices, knowledge and subjective positions of the AG. Throughout the intervention, changes in the positions regarding the literacy experiences and conditions that came to be recognized as constituted historically and collectively were evidenced. Thus, undergraduate students have reframed their experiences and advanced in the appropriation of AG and in coping with suffering college experiences. The study allowed conditions and reflections that culminated in the protagonism of these students, emphasizing the need for the implementation of actions in the context of student assistance, focused on the conditions of literacy.

Análise da escrita de uma criança com hipomelanose de ito / Analysis of writing of a child with ITO's Hypomelanosis

A hipomelanose de Ito caracteriza-se por manchas hipossegmentadas decorrentes de uma rara alteração na mielinização que pode ocasionar seqüelas neurológicas como déficit cognitivo, macrocelafia e epilepsia. O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar as características da linguagem escrita de um sujeito portador dessa alteração. Para tanto, nosso estudo se pauta em uma abordagem que toma a linguagem como atividade constitutiva. O resultado de nossas análises demonstrou que a aquisição da escrita do sujeito dessa pesquisa coincide com o processo previsível de desenvolvimento da linguagem, apesar dos déficits neurológicos que ele apresenta.(AU)

Ito's hypomelanosis is characterized by hyposegmental spots caused by a rare alteration in the melanization that may cause neurological sequences such as cognitive deficiency, macrocephaly and epilepsy. Current analysis bases itself on the approach that considers language as a constitutive activity. Results show that the acquisition of the written language of the subject in current research coincides with the predictable development of the language process in spite of its neurological deficiencies.(AU)

Análise da escrita de uma criança com Hipomelanose de ITO / Análisis de la escritura de un niño con Hipomelanose de ITO / Analysis of writing of a child with ITO's Hypomelanosis

A hipomelanose de Ito caracteriza-se por manchas hipossegmentadas decorrentes de uma rara alteração na mielinização que pode ocasionar seqüelas neurológicas como déficit cognitivo, macrocelafia e epilepsia. O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar as características da linguagem escrita de um sujeito portador dessa alteração. Para tanto, nosso estudo se pauta em uma abordagem que toma a linguagem como atividade constitutiva. O resultado de nossas análises demonstrou que a aquisição da escrita do sujeito dessa pesquisa coincide com o processo previsível de desenvolvimento da linguagem, apesar dos déficits neurológicos que ele apresenta.

Ito's hypomelanosis is characterized by hyposegmental spots caused by a rare alteration in the melanization that may cause neurological sequences such as cognitive deficiency, macrocephaly and epilepsy. Current analysis bases itself on the approach that considers language as a constitutive activity. Results show that the acquisition of the written language of the subject in current research coincides with the predictable development of the language process in spite of its neurological deficiencies.