Healthcare-associated infections are a known factor that is especially difficult to control within healthcare institutions. They are responsible for increased mortality, as well as increased length of stay and costs. This is a retrospective observational cross-sectional study that aims to elucidate information about infections acquired in the hospital environment by patients with a confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19, who are more susceptible to this condition; it was conducted from March 2020 to March 2022 at a hospi…

Introduction: Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are a major public health problem. Objective: To evaluate the profile of SAIs in patients with COVID-19 admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) in a public hospital in southern Brazil. Method: Cross-sectional, retrospective study, conducted between March 2020 to October 2021, of patients with COVID-19 hospitalized in ICU with IRAS. Results: The main infection was ventilator-associated pneumonia (230 cases), followed by urinary tract infections (160 cases) and…

Heart failure (HF) remains with a poor prognosis and high morbidity and mortality. The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic may have influenced these parameters due to the overload of health services, although regional characteristics may have had an influence. OBJECTIVE: To assess the impact of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic on HF morbidity and mortality in Northeast Brazil through data analysis from DATA-SUS. METHOD: The average length of stay, the number of hospitalizations and deaths, and the mortality rate from 02/2017 to 11/2022 we…

Abstract Background/Introduction Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is often associated with metabolic syndrome (MS) and its components, including systemic arterial hypertension (SAH). In a recently published meta-analysis, the estimated prevalence of SAH in patients with NAFLD was 39.34%. Recently published observational studies have shown that the presence of NAFLD is independently associated with an increased risk of identifying SAH. Therefore, we can infer that we will often have to treat SAH in patient…

Objective: The aim was to analyze the results of studies about the prevalence of Staphylococcus aureus and methicillin-resistant S. aureus among medical students. Methodology: A literature review was carried out from August to November 2020, being selected 19 articles from the Pubmed and “Biblioteca Virtual de Saúde” databases, using the descriptors “Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus” and “Students, Medical”. Studies from the last 10 years that target medical students and samples collected by nasal swab …