'Quer N0 AVC' for Monitoring Stroke Patients' Healthcare Using a Mobile App.

Stroke is one of the leading causes of death and impairments worldwide. After hospital discharge, it is necessary to monitor these patients during their recovery. This research addresses the implementation of a mobile app, entitled 'Quer N0 AVC', to improve the quality of stroke patient care in Joinville, Brazil.

Technologies During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Teleconsultation in Care Management for Patients Undergoing Liver Transplant.

Background: The aim of this study was to identify home care management strategies for patients undergoing liver transplant, through teleconsultation, during the COVID-19 pandemic for maintenance and improvements in treatment adherence.

Methods: This was a qualitative, exploratory, and descriptive research study. Participants included patients who underwent liver transplant between 2020 and 2021.

Family Interview Evaluation for Organ Donation: Communication of Death and Information About Organ Donation.

Background: The aim of this study was to identify variables related to organ donation that can contribute to the development of best practices in planning and conducting family interviews by health professionals.

Methods: This descriptive and prospective study of quantitative approach was conducted at 2 southern Brazil health institutions referenced in organ donation. Data collection occurred between 2018 and 2019 by health professionals who conduct family interviews using validated instruments that assessed the stages of the interview.

Complications Following Liver Transplant at a Teaching Hospital.

Objective: The objective of this study is to analyze the liver transplant complications in a reference transplant hospital in southern Brazil.

Methods: The researchers used a cross-sectional, quantitative, exploratory, and descriptive study, conducted using 103 medical records of patients who underwent liver transplantation from 2011 to 2018. Data were analyzed through median, mean, and standard deviation, and the Kruskal-Wallis test was used.

Health Needs of Patients Undergoing Liver Transplant From the Context of Hospital Discharge.

Objective: To identify the health needs of the patient and family facing the perspectives of discharge, health care, and adaptation to the new reality at home.

Methods: This was a quantitative and qualitative, exploratory, descriptive study conducted at a reference hospital for liver transplantation. The participants were patients undergoing liver transplant in this hospital unit from 2011 to June 2019.

Communication of Death in the Context of Infant-Child Donation: Best Practices for Creating Family Interview for Organ and Tissue Donation.

Objective: To analyze evidence capable of supporting best practices available in the literature to create dialogues about organ and tissue donation with parents of deceased children and adolescents.

Methods: An integrative literature review performed using Scopus, Cochrane, PsycINFO, PubMed/MEDLINE, Web of Science database, and SciELo electronic libraries from November of 2013 to November of 2018, using keyword syntax for each database. The categories were developed using the Alicante model.

Positive impact of a clinical goal-directed protocol on reducing cardiac arrests during potential brain-dead donor maintenance.

Background: The disproportion between the large organ demand and the low number of transplantations performed represents a serious public health problem worldwide. Reducing the loss of transplantable organs from deceased potential donors as a function of cardiac arrest (CA) may contribute to an increase in organ donations. Our purpose was to test the hypothesis that a goal-directed protocol to guide the management of deceased donors may reduce the losses of potential brain-dead donors (PBDDs) due to CA.