Quality of life in swallowing in healthy elderly.

Purpose: To understand the self-perception of healthy elderly regarding possible swallowing difficulties.

Methods: Participants were 104 seniors, 62 women and 42 men, ranging in age from 60 to 88 years (mean 70.6), who reported good general health, no history of degenerative diseases, neurological or any other diseases that could influence swallowing participated.

[Reliability of an instrument to assess the readiness of preterm infants for oral feeding].

Background: The transition from gastric to oral feeding of preterm infants is one of the greatest concerns of health professionals and therefore needs an objective criterion to support the beginning of this process.

Aim: To test the reliability of an instrument that assesses the readiness of preterm infants for the transition from gastric to oral feeding.

Method: The instrument is composed by the following items: corrected gestational age; behavioral state; global posture and tonus; lips and tongue posture; rooting, suck, bite and gag reflexes; tongue and jaw movements; tongue cupping; sucking strain; sucking and pause; maintenance sucking/pause; maintenance alert state and stress signs.

[Noise generated during incubator manipulation: implications for nursing care].

Unlabelled: Uncontrolled experimental study.

Aim: Quantify the impact noise of the 23 incubators functioning in the intensive and intermediate care units of a public university hospital in Ribeirão Preto-SP.

Methodology: Measuring occurred during incubator manipulation in a careful and in a rough way, considering the impact noise generated by the various situations in which the incubator was manipulated.