Assistance to children in palliative care in the Brazilian scientific literature.

Objective: To describe what has been published in Brazilian scientific literature regarding pediatric palliative care.

Data Sources: Bibliographic review with a descriptive approach. In LILACS and SciELO databases, the descriptors "palliative care", "child", "pediatrics", "terminal illness" and "death" were sought, from January 2002 to December 2011.

Planning cancer control in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Non-communicable diseases, including cancer, are overtaking infectious disease as the leading health-care threat in middle-income and low-income countries. Latin American and Caribbean countries are struggling to respond to increasing morbidity and death from advanced disease. Health ministries and health-care systems in these countries face many challenges caring for patients with advanced cancer: inadequate funding; inequitable distribution of resources and services; inadequate numbers, training, and distribution of health-care personnel and equipment; lack of adequate care for many populations based on socioeconomic, geographic, ethnic, and other factors; and current systems geared toward the needs of wealthy, urban minorities at a cost to the entire population.

The physician and updates in cancer treatment: when to stop?

The issue of life-ending has been a source of considerations since the dawn of civilization, and calls for great circumspection when one attempts to fit it socially throughout the history of human thinking. The development and improvement of Medicine might modify, in most cases, the natural history of disease. We have managed to prolong life and the process of dying.

Incidence, clinical features and subtypes of delirium in elderly patients treated for hip fractures.

Objective: To describe the incidence, risk factors and clinical features (subtypes) of delirium during the postoperative period after hip fracture surgery in elderly patients.

Design: Prospective study.

Methods: Thirty-four consecutive patients (9 men and 25 women) were included in this study between June 16 to July 14, 2003.

Clinical features of elderly patients submitted to coronary artery bypass graft.

Objective: To describe the clinical features as well as morbidity and mortality of elderly patients submitted to coronary artery bypass graft (CABG).

Design: Randomized, single-center, observational study.

Methods: A prospective study was carried out in a tertiary referral teaching hospital (Heart Institute-Brazil).

Risk factors for delirium in the elderly after coronary artery bypass graft surgery.

Objective: To investigate the risk factors for delirium in the elderly during the post-operative period of coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG).

Methods: A total of 220 inpatients submitted to CABG were evaluated prior to and after surgery. In order to investigate the possible risk factors, data were collected from pre- intra- and post-operative periods.