Barriers to Access to Cardiac Surgery: Canadian Situation and Global Context.

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Cardiovascular care spans primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention and care, whereby tertiary care is particularly prone to disparities in care. Challenges in access to care especially affect low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), however, multiple barriers also exist and persist across high-income countries.

Analysis of the efficiency of an emergency network for the treatment of multiple burn victims.

Objective: to evaluate the effectiveness of the adopted strategy and the care quality for pediatric trauma in the survival of patients attended after a disaster in a city in the interior of Minas Gerais state, compared to the expected results of studies on infant mortality in major burns.

Methods: retrospective observational analysis of ten patients who were burned and transferred to a trauma reference center. We used the modified R-Baux score to estimate the expected mortality.

Mortality predictors in patients with pelvic fractures from blunt trauma.

Objective:: to analyze the association of mortality with sociodemographic and clinical variables, as well as lesions and complication in patients with pelvic trauma due to blunt trauma.

Methods:: we conducted a retrospective, observational study with five-year trauma record data. Death was considered as the main stratification variable for the analyzes.