Publications by authors named "Nassiff A"
Objective: to assess the demand for Intensive Care Unit beds as well as the classification of the patients for admission, according to the priority system.
Method: a retrospective and cross-sectional study, developed from January2014 to December2018 in two Intensive Care Units for adults of a university hospital. The sample consisted of the requests for vacancies according to the priority system(scale from 1 to 4, where 1 is the highest priority and 4 is no priority), registered in the institution's electronic system.
Background: The aim of this study was to identify factors associated with pressure injury (PI) occurrence in critically ill patients. This was a retrospective cohort study conducted at a mixed intensive care unit (ICU).
Methods: Univariate analysis and logistic regression were used to identify which variables are associated with PI.
Alcohol-based surgical hand preparation: translating scientific evidence into clinical practice.
Antimicrob Resist Infect Control
July 2019
Background: Although alcohol-based surgical hand preparation offers potential advantages over the traditional surgical scrubbing technique, implementing it may be challenging due to resistance of surgeons in changing their practice. We aimed to implement alcohol-based surgical hand preparation in the hospital setting evaluating the impact of that on the quality and duration of the procedure, as well as on the prevention of surgical site infections.
Methods: A quasi-experimental study conducted at a tertiary-care university hospital from April 01 to November 01, 2017.
Introduction: At the beginning of 1992 an epidemic neuropathy was seen in Cuba.
Material And Methods: To determine the clinical characteristics we studied the clinical and neurological features, cerebrospinal fluid, and did neurophysiological investigations and sural nerve biopsies.
Results: Sixty patients were studied.