Publications by authors named "Guillermo Mazzucco"
Article Synopsis
- Evidence-based practice (EBP) is essential for informed clinical decisions in healthcare, highlighting the need for assessing and improving practitioners' skills in Latin America.
- A study involving 448 respiratory health professionals revealed moderate to high levels of EBP knowledge and application, influenced by factors like training and access to research literature.
- The research identified institutional barriers to EBP implementation, suggesting opportunities for improvement in this field among healthcare providers in the region.
Introduction: The Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has significantly altered the provision of rehabilitation services, especially pulmonary rehabilitation (PR). Our objective was to assess the provision of PR services in Latin America 18 months after the COVID-19 pandemic was declared.
Methods: A cross-sectional study that included professionals dedicated to PR in centres in Latin America was applied.
Background: Congenital heart disease (CHD) entails structural defects in the morphogenesis of the heart or its main vessels. Analyzing exercise capacity of children and adolescents with CHD is important to improve their functional condition and quality of life, since it can allow timely intervention on poor prognostic factors associated with higher risk of morbidity and mortality.
Objective: To describe exercise capacity in children and adolescents with CHD compared with healthy controls.
The treatment of choice for patients with advanced heart failure (HF) and with limiting symptoms with evidence of a poor prognosis despite optimal conventional treatment is a heart transplant. However, there is little literature dealing with the effects of cardiovascular prehabilitation with an important change in physical capacity, which can influence the admission on the waiting list for a heart transplant. We presented one young male, smoker, with no prior history of cardiovascular disease, severe ventricular dysfunction, interventricular defect, and HF.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective To determine whether non-hospitalized adults post COVID-19 have impaired exercise capacity. Design Retrospective analysis. Setting Cardiovascular outpatients unit in Instituto Cardiovascular de Rosario, Argentina.
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