Overview of special issue on current advances in Brazilian biomedical and anatomical sciences.

This special issue of The Anatomical Record honors the bridges of knowledge and communications between Brazil and the United States in Anatomical Science, Healthcare, and Medical Education. The volume is organized in two sets of manuscripts: the first one stems from presentations of Brazilian colleagues in the latest iteration of the Building Bridges outreach initiative-a meeting entitled Building Bridges Back to Back, held at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in December of 2019; the second, is a compilation of selected papers submitted independently to The Anatomical Record, authored by Brazilian researchers. All abstracts in this volume are featured in English and in Portuguese, and the opening piece is fully available in both languages.

The building bridges initiative in health sciences and medical education: Fostering connections between Brazil and the United States.

Building Bridges is an outreach initiative that has focused upon effectuating increased communication among biomedical scientists, educators, and students in Brazil and the United States-the countries with the greatest number of medical schools in the Americas. It has been a developing project over the last 6 years, and has involved faculty, students, and civic leaders from many universities in the two countries. This Special Issue of The Anatomical Record is a continuation of the Building Bridges initiative, and brings to the fore attention onto some of the creative research being done in biomedical science, evolutionary science, biomedical education, and current health topics in Brazil.

Laryngeal support device enhances the learning of laryngeal anatomy and voice physiology.

Multidisciplinary cooperation in health care requires a solid knowledge in the basic sciences for a common ground of communication. In speech pathology, these fundamentals improve the accuracy of descriptive diagnoses and support the development of new therapeutic techniques and strategies. The aim of this study is to briefly discuss the benefits of hands-on education on laryngeal anatomy and voice physiology in Brazilian graduate programs in speech pathology, as well as to describe a simple prototype that can be used as a useful educational tool for this purpose.

Transfer function of Brazilian Portuguese oral vowels: a comparative acoustic analysis.

Unlabelled: The vocal tract transfers its characteristics onto the sounds produced at the glottis, depending on its tridimensional configuration.

Aim: this study aims to determine which of the seven oral vowels in Brazilian Portuguese is acoustically less impacted by changes to the vocal tract.

Materials And Method: this is a cross-sectional prospective study.

Tracheostomized patients care: efficacy of a brief theoretical education program for nursing personnel.

Introduction: Tracheostomized cancer patients require a special nursing care involving specifically related procedures. The goal of this study was to evaluate the results of a brief theoretical education program on tracheostomized patients care for nursing personnel.

Materials And Methods: One hundred and ten professionals have participated in this before and after-intervention one group study, and the program was carried out in a Brazilian hospital, a national reference center in oncology treatment.