4 results match your criteria: "School of Nursing-EEUSP[Affiliation]"
Topical therapy for pain management in malignant fungating wounds: A scoping review.
J Clin Nurs
July 2023
Medical-Surgical Nursing Department Research Group of Enterostomal Therapy Nursing Stomatherapy-GPET, Sao Paulo, University of São Paulo, School of Nursing-EEUSP, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Article Synopsis
- The study aims to summarize existing research on topical therapies for managing pain in patients with malignant fungating wounds and identify gaps in the literature.
- A scoping review was conducted, examining 796 records to find relevant studies, ultimately selecting 70 publications that mostly consisted of non-systematic reviews and case studies, with only six being clinical trials.
- While twenty different therapies were identified, including wound dressings and analgesics, many studies lacked standardized pain assessments, highlighting the need for more rigorous research in this area.
Inflammation: improving understanding to prevent or ameliorate kidney diseases.
J Venom Anim Toxins Incl Trop Dis
October 2021
Animal Model Experimental Laboratory (LEMA), School of Nursing (EEUSP), University of São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Inflammatory processes are believed to play an important role in immune response to maintain tissue homeostasis by activating cellular signaling pathways and releasing inflammatory mediators in the injured tissue. Although acute inflammation can be considered protective, an uncontrolled inflammation may evolve to tissue damage, leading to chronic inflammatory diseases. Inflammation can be considered the major factor involved in the pathological progression of acute and chronic kidney diseases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPressure injuries in critical patients: Incidence, patient-associated factors, and nursing workload.
J Nurs Manag
March 2019
Medical-Surgical Department, School of Nursing, University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Aim: To estimate the incidence of pressure injury and its predictors including nursing workload in critical patients.
Background: There is controversy about the influence of the nursing workload on the occurrence of pressure injury in intensive care units.
Methods: A retrospective cohort of 766 patients in nine intensive care units of two university hospitals was studied.
Violence as a research object and intervention in the health field: an analysis from the production of the Research Group on Gender, Health and Nursingi.
Rev Esc Enferm USP
December 2014
University of São Paulo, Department of Community Health Nursing, School of Nursing, São Paulo, Brazil.
Unlabelled: The study aimed to describe how violence is revealed in the production of the Research Group on Gender, Health and Nursing. This is a historical research of qualitative approach, which evaluated the production of the Research Group, through content analysis. The results show gender as a central category in determining violence and health practices.
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