Profile of thoracic trauma victims submitted to chest drainage.

Objective: to describe and compare the variables involved in trauma victims undergoing thoracic drainage.

Methods: we conducted a retrospective, analytical, descriptive, cross-sectional study, with medical records of patients attended at the Trauma Service of the Curitiba Evangelical University Hospital between February 2011 and January 2014.

Results: there were 488 patients undergoing chest drainage, 84.

Profile of renal trauma victims treated at a university hospital in Curitiba.

Objective:: to study the profile of victims of kidney trauma who underwent surgical and medical treatment in a hospital in Curitiba.

Methods:: we conducted a retrospective, analytical, quantitative, cross-sectional study of patients with renal trauma admitted to the Evangelical Hospital of Curitiba between February 2011 and January 2014.

Results:: participated in the study 38 patients, four women and 34, men with a mean age of 28.

[Evaluation of aroeira (Schinus terebinthifolius Raddi) extract on the healing process of gastroraphy in rats].

Purpose: To evaluate the healing process of gastric suture in rats using hydroalcoholic aroeira (Schinus terebinthifolius Raddi) extract.

Methods: Forty adult male rats, divided into two groups of 20 animals were operated and named as follows: aroeira group (Ga), and the control group (Gc). Each group was divided into two subgroups (SG) of 10 animals (SGa and SGc) according to the time of provoked death (three and seven days).