Publications by authors named "H Constant"

Article Synopsis
  • - The study explores the effectiveness of remote tele-mentored ultrasound (RTMUS) in diagnosing pulmonary conditions in ICUs, comparing it to point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS), specifically for diagnosing pulmonary oedema, pneumonia, and COPD.
  • - Conducted in three adult ICUs with 23 patients, the results showed RTMUS had good accuracy for COPD (89.96%) and reasonable levels for pulmonary oedema (71.43%), but performed less effectively for pneumonia (65.22%).
  • - The findings suggest RTMUS could be a viable alternative to POCUS for certain conditions, but the authors caution that further studies with larger sample sizes are needed to confirm these results.
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Purpose: Despite numerous mentoring strategies to promote academic success and eligibility in medicine, Black students remain disproportionately underrepresented in medicine. Therefore, we conducted a scoping review to identify the mentoring practices available to Black pre-medical students, medical students and medical residents, specifically the mentoring strategies used, their application, and their evaluation.

Method: Between May 2023 and October 2023, the authors conducted a literature review.

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Objective: The enabling behaviors of family members of psychoactive substance users can be crucial in maintaining addiction. There are no psychometrically evaluated instruments to measure the frequency of the enabling behaviors of family members of psychoactive substance users. Therefore, this study aimed to assess the internal consistency and factor structure of the Behavioral Enabling Scale.

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There are discrepancies in resources and expertise available between pediatric intensive care units (PICUs) in Brazil that likely significantly impact the clinical outcomes of patients. The goal of this study was to evaluate the impact of telemedicine rounding support in two public PICUs located in the North and Northeast regions of Brazil. Our intervention involves telehealth rounds connecting two "level II" PICUs with specialist doctors from a hospital of recognized excellence.

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The objective of this study is to present the protocol of a cluster randomized clinical trial to be conducted through the TeleICU project - Qualification of Intensive Care by Telemedicine. The study will consist of a cluster randomized clinical trial, open label, in pediatric intensive care units, with an allocation ratio of 1:1, to compare the intervention group (support of Telemedicine for patients admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit) with a control group (pediatric intensive care unit usual care). The study proposed to select 16 pediatric intensive care units, including 100 participants per site, with a total of 1,600 participants.

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