Pain Predictors in Patients in the Postanesthesia Care Unit.

Purpose: To analyze the effects of pain-predicting factors on patients in the postanesthesia care unit (PACU).

Design: This is an observational and prospective study.

Methods: This study was conducted at a University Hospital in the state of Minas Gerais (Brazil).

Validation of a patient safety checklist for radiological procedures in hemodynamics.

Objectives: to carry out cultural adaptation and validation of WHO Surgical Safety Checklist: for Radiological Interventions ONLY to Brazilian Portuguese.

Methods: a methodological research with the following stages of the cultural adaptation process: translation of the instrument, achievement of a consensus in Portuguese, evaluation by a committee of judges, back-translation, achievement of a consensus in English, comparison with the original version, and a pre-test. The psychometric properties of the adapted version were evaluated through interobserver reliability.

Influence of support surfaces on the distribution of body interface pressure in surgical positioning.

Objective: to evaluate the interface pressure (IP) of support surfaces (SSs) on bony prominences.

Method: a quasi-experimental study with repeated measures on each SS. Twenty healthy adult volunteers participated in the study.

Body mass index as discriminator of the lean mass deficit and excess body fat in institutionalized elderly people.

The objective of this study was to identify the discriminating criterion for body mass index (BMI) in the prediction of low fat free mass and high body fat percentage according to sex among older people. Observational analytical study with cross-sectional design was used for this study. All institutionalized older people from the city of Uberaba (Minas Gerais, Brazil) who fit within the inclusion and exclusion criteria were approached.

Warmed intravenous infusion for controlling intraoperative hypothermia.

Objective: to verify the effectiveness of warmed intravenous infusion for hypothermia prevention in patients during the intraoperative period.

Method: experimental, comparative, field, prospective and quantitative study undertaken at a federal public hospital. The sample was composed of 60 adults, included based on the criteria of axillary temperature between 36ºC and 37.

[Hypothermia in patients during the perioperative period].

The objective of this study was to identify the factors that trigger hypothermia in patients in surgery, and the manifestations in the anesthesia recovery room. This study was performed in a large hospital of the City of Santos hospital network. Data were collected from 30 adult patients, whose body temperature when entering the surgical suite was between 36ºC and 37.