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J Med Internet Res
January 2025
Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, United States.
Background: Heart failure (HF) is one of the most common causes of hospital readmission in the United States. These hospitalizations are often driven by insufficient self-care. Commercial mobile health (mHealth) technologies, such as consumer-grade apps and wearable devices, offer opportunities for improving HF self-care, but their efficacy remains largely underexplored.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHepatol Commun
February 2025
Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Infectious Diseases and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Background: Refractory ascites (RA) remains a serious complication in patients with cirrhosis. Currently, the insertion of a TIPS is considered the standard of care in these patients. To achieve symptom control in those with TIPS contraindications, tunneled peritoneal catheters (PeCa) or ascites pumps were introduced.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Bras Pneumol
January 2025
. Instituto D'Or de Pesquisa e Ensino - IDOR - Hospital Cárdio-Pulmonar, Rede D'Or, Salvador (BA) Brasil.
Objective: A significant number of patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) are not eligible for pulmonary endarterectomy and may be treated with balloon pulmonary angioplasty (BPA). Although BPA programs have recently been developed in Brazil, no results have yet been published. The objective of this study was to assess the clinical and hemodynamic progression of the first patients treated with BPA at our center.
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January 2025
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. Centro de Ciências Médicas. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Saúde da Criança e do Adolescente. Recife, Pernambuco, Brasil.
Objective: To analyze the implementation of the Kangaroo Method in a tertiary maternity hospital in the city of Recife.
Method: Evaluative research analyzing the implementation of the 2nd and 3rd stages of the Kangaroo Method. Conducted between November 2021 and May 2022.
Rev Gaucha Enferm
January 2025
Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Farmacêuticas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, Brasil.
Objective: To verify the effects of instructional therapeutic play on the behavior of children during the first attempt at peripheral intravenous catheterization.
Method: This is a quasi-experimental post hoc analysis with a non-equivalent control group, secondary to a randomized clinical trial. The convenience sample comprised 193 children, allocated for convenience into an intervention group (preparation for catheterization with a therapeutic play; n=101 children) and a control group (preparation with structured conversation supported by the use of a booklet; n=92 children).
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