Encephalitis associated with anti-mGluR5 antibodies.

A 30-year-old woman had 5 days of visual hallucinations, nystagmus, memory impairment and mutism. On examination, she was disorientated with reduced attention span, gaze-evoked nystagmus, paratonia and abnormal frontal reflexes. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) showed 80 cells, protein 0.

Implementation of a surgical safety checklist in Brazil: cross-sectional study.

Objective: to identify the implementation process of the World Health Organization Surgical Safety Checklist in Brazilian hospitals.

Methods: this is a cross-sectional study with 531 participants during a Congress of Perioperative Nursing, promoted by the Brazilian Association of Operating Room Nurses, Anesthetic Recovery and Material and Sterilization Center, in 2017.

Results: among the nursing professionals included, 84.

Utility of initial EEG in first complex febrile seizure.

Objective: The risk of developing epilepsy following febrile seizures (FS) varies between 2% and 10%, with complex febrile seizures (CFS) having a higher risk. We examined the utility of detected epileptiform abnormalities on the initial EEG following a first CFS in predicting subsequent epilepsy.

Methods: This was a retrospective study of consecutive patients (ages 6-60 months) who were neurologically healthy or mildly delayed, seen in the ED following a first CFS and had both an EEG and minimum of 2-year follow-up.

[Therapeutic play in preparing for surgery: behavior of preschool children during the perioperative period].

Objective: to describe the behavior of children during the instructional session of therapeutic play (ITP) in the preoperative period and to verify the behavior presented by them during the perioperative period.

Methods: Exploratory descriptive study with a quantitative approach, developed in a large private hospital in Sao Paulo, in which the behaviors presented by 30 children between three and five years old, undergoing minor surgery were seen at the hospital during the session of TP and in the surgical center, from admission to awaken from anesthesia.

Results: Most children participated in the ITP session (21; 70%), entered the surgical room spontaneously (22; 73.

Humanization according to cancer patients with extended hospitalization periods.

Objective: To identify the concept of humanization and raise aspects that contribute towards and that hinder humanization of hospital care, according to the opinion of oncology patients.

Methods: This is a descriptive-exploratory survey, with a qualitative-quantitative approach. The sample was made up of 10 patients hospitalized for more than 30 days at the Oncology Unit of Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, who, after satisfying ethical and legal procedures, were interviewed and answered three questions in reference to humanization in oncology.

Patient care and administrative activities of nurses in clinical/surgical units.

Objectives: To identify the administrative and nursing care activities most performed by nurses in clinical/surgical units and to determine which are most and least pleasant to them.

Methods: A descriptive-exploratory field study, with a quantitative approach and with a sample made up of 40 nurses working in clinical/surgical units who answered a three-part questionnaire composed of identification data and characterization of the professional; a list of nursing and administrative activities for the nurse to grade according to the numbers: "0 = I do not perform it", "1 = I perform it occasionally", "2 = I perform it often", "3 = I perform it daily"; two open-ended questions, in which the nurse listed the activities he/she enjoyed the most and the least.

Results: The administrative activities most performed by the nurses were: changing work shifts, preparing employee daily task charts and managing tests; the most performed nursing care activities were related to the stages of the Nursing Care Systematization and the interaction with the multi-professional team; the most enjoyable activities were direct patient care, patient evaluation and implementation of the systematization; the least enjoyable activities were administrative and bureaucratic routines, justification of complaints/problem-solving and preparation of employee task charts.

Integrative review: what is it? How to do it?

Introduction: The integrative review is the methodology that provides synthesis of knowledge and applicability of results of significant studies to practice.

Objective: To present the phases of an integrative review and the relevant aspects to be taken into account when using this methodological resource.

Methods: This study was based on bibliographic search and on the experience of the authors when performing an integrative review.

[Nursing undergraduates' anxiety about the first surgical instrumentation].

This study aimed to identify nursing undergraduates' anxiety about the first surgical instrumentation. The sample consisted of 30 sixth-period students who were enrolled in the subject surgical nursing. Data were collected through the STAI (State-Trait Anxiety Inventory).