Article (Mirabilia Medicinæ)
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Application of Restorative Justice for Cases of Animal Abuse
Maria Madalena Soares de Souza ESTEVES, André Marcelo M. SOARES
Original title: Aplicação da Justiça Restaurativa Para Casos de Maus-Tratos Animais
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Keywords: Animals, Environment, Sex Offenses, Socialization.
This article analyzes the application feasibility of restorative justice to cases of bestiality and animal abuse, considering it to be a form of justice’s promotion that does not overlap with the current model, and which can be exercised by the Judiciary as a procedural stage, and still to involve, besides the victim itself, others affected. First, the legal nature of subhuman animals was analyzed, then the concept of the new model of justice, and, finally, the theoretical reference of social reconstruction.
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Life Stories in Medicine
Hélio ANGOTTI NETO
Original title: Histórias de Vida na Medicina
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Keywords: History of Medicine, Medical Education, Medical Humanities.
This volume of Mirabilia / Medicinæ Journal brings three articles on Medical Humanities, History of Medicine and Medical Education. The first article is the academic report of the 5th UNESC Seminar on Medical Humanities - Life Stories in Medicine -, held on June 9 and 10, 2017 at Campus I of the University Center of Espírito Santo, in Colatina, Espírito Santo. The second article covers the history of Alois Alzheimer (1864-1915 AD). And the last article describes a health education initiative in the context of patient safety, an area of great importance and prominence in healthcare.
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V UNESC Seminar of Medical Humanities
Renylena Schmidt LOPES, Victor Hugo de Castro e SILVA, Hélio ANGOTTI NETO
Original title: V Seminário UNESC de Humanidades Médicas
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Keywords: Bioethics, Medical Humanities, Philosophy of Medicine.
On June 9 and 10, 2017, the V UNESC Seminar of Medical Humanities was held. It is a pioneering event created in 2013 to discuss topics including: Bioethics, Medical Philosophy, Medical History, Medical-Patient Relationship, Medical Ethics and Literature. This edition of the event was called "Life Stories in Medicine", and was divided into three blocks: (a) Humanization in Healthcare, addressing patients' life histories; (b) Professionalism and Ethics, addressing the life histories of healthcare professionals; and (c) Bioethics – The Abortion Debate, with different views on the lives of doctors, mothers and future generations.
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A Disease Called Alzheimer
Daniel Pinheiro HERNANDEZ, José Guilherme Pinheiro PIRES, Mayara BUENO, Pedro Henrique Martins de OLIVEIRA, Rafael Vinícius Lôndero Quintino dos SANTOS
Original title: Uma Doença Chamada Alzheimer
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Keywords: Alois Alzheimer, Alzheimer’s Disease, History of Medicine.
Alzheimer's disease is the most common type of dementia. Its onset is insidious, and the brain damage is continuous, resulting, over time, in the functional disability of the patients. The objective of this paper is to know the history of the discovery of Alzheimer's Disease and to understand the origin of this eponym. The study was carried out through bibliographic research in the following databases: Pubmed, Scielo and Lilacs. The following descriptors were used: Alois Alzheimer, History of Medicine, Alzheimer's Disease. Alois Alzheimer was born in the small town of Marktbreit in Bavaria (Germany), and graduated in 1887 receiving his medical degree from the University of Würzburg. He took up his first position as an assistant at the Asylum for Mental and Epileptic Patients in Frankfurt, where he served for 14 years. He met Franz Nissl (1860-1919), the German neuropathologist, and together they studied the cortex of patients with pre-senile dementia. He presented his postdoctoral thesis showing the existence of neurofibrillary entanglements, which came to characterize a specific form of dementia. In 1910, the German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin (1856-1926) named this condition as Alzheimer's Disease. Alzheimer is recognized as a memorable psychiatrist and neuropathologist who discovered a disease that today affects millions of people worldwide.
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Patient Safety: distance learning as a teaching-learning strategy
Rosana ALVES, Ana Claudia Camargo Gonçalves GERMANI, Francis Solange Vieira TOURINHO, Siulmara Cristina GALERA, Andréa Aparecida CONTINI, Sandra Rosa Sponchiado GASPARINI, Gustavo Salata ROMÃO
Original title: Segurança do Paciente: educação à distância como estratégia de ensino-aprendizagem
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Keywords: Health System, Healthcare, Patient Safety.
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that care-related assistance errors determine damage affecting thousands of individuals around the world. The error leads to permanent damage or even death; and also leads to an increase in hospitalization time and also to financial costs (WHO, 2008) 1. A number of measures have been taken, based on the report " To Err is Human: building a safer health system" (19992), which referred to errors related to health care assistance. In Brazil, the National Agency of Sanitary Surveillance - ANVISA (2011) 3 reinforces the objective of avoiding harm to patients, and considers the error as a human condition, being an opportunity to get to know, learn and prevent errors in health services. In this direction, the Patient Safety has been widely discussed among professional health classes and also in the scientific environment, however there are gaps between the translation of knowledge to the practice of health professionals. The objectives were to raise awareness among teachers of the health professions on the issue of Patient Safety, to disseminate knowledge about the subject, to present and discuss the National Patient Safety Program (NPSP), through a Distance Learning Course (DLC) using the Moodle Platform. The DLC course was set up in three blocks and course evaluation. Teachers in the health area of several College Education Institutions were the target audience. Each block, with an average of 10 days, provided scientific articles and videos as material for consultation. Each block also presented a task followed by collective or individual feedback. The participant can contribute at any time, even after the deadline established. The 1st Block presented a video of the World Health Organization on "Patient Safety", the task being the discussion in the Forum. The 2nd Block was based on the analysis of photos of patient's risk situations. Finally, the 3rd Block requested the proper application of the Clinical Simulation to its course reality, considering the goals of the NPSP. On average, 35 teachers (from a target audience of 50) took part in all course activities. The Content analysis, according to Bardin, of the posts in the Block 1 from the Forum, demonstrated teachers' facilities and difficulties in promoting Patient Safety in their daily activities. In Block 2, was realized the questionnaire of the photos analysis. The feedback counted with the correct responses based on the NPSP (where most detected the error) and a consolidated response of participants. In Block 3, the video analysis about simulation and participation in the forum reinforced the importance of implementing activities or scenarios of simulated practice where the teaching-learning process in Patient Safety could be addressed, with aspects focused on the application of the NPSP. We consider that we have achieved the previously established objectives, since: 1) it was possible to present and discuss the NPSP; 2) there was a stimulus to the reflexive process on the applicability of the Patient Safety guidelines through photographic analysis; 3) the application of the knowledge to each participant's work environment was encouraged.
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Medical Humanities: Art and Life
Hélio ANGOTTI NETO
Original title: Humanidades Médicas: Arte e Vida
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Keywords: Art, Bioethics, Medical Humanities, Organ Donation, René Favaloro.
This volume of Mirabilia / Medicinæ Journal brings three articles on Medical Humanities: Art and Life. The articles include an appreciation of art related to healthcare education, a biography of a renowned physician and an article on human life sacredness and the search for organs to donation. The three themes are intrinsically linked to the humanistic effort and offer different perspectives from a broad field of study.
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Art and Medicine - An Optional Mutual Relationship
Georgia Dunes da Costa MACHADO
Original title: Arte y Medicina - Una Relación de Mutualismo Facultativo
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Keywords: Art, History of Medicine, Interdisciplinarity, Medical Humanities, Transdisciplinarity.
As we evolve scientifically, we move away from the art involved in the intrinsic care of medicine. Many of our doctors are more blind, deaf, less tactile, devoid of empathy, as well as massacred by the high number of care they need to perform and the shameful conditions of work and service to which they are subjected and who are obliged to submit their patients. How can we not distance ourselves from models of behavior like that of William Osler (1849-1919)? This work presents different possibilities of using the arts as an example of a tool for reversing the proven loss of empathy of the medicine students. This through interventions in this process, as well as a reflection about the preconception of the hierarchy of knowledge and the feeling of unpreparedness of the faculty for the basic ability of mediation between art and medical-humanistic contents. It is possible, with the involvement of the emotion, as it happens with the musicians of an orchestra, to govern such mediation of an eye in the good final product: a new or old doctor that disturbs and surprises his patient, being a watershed in life of the individual who puts his full trust in him. In these terms, the use of the arts emerges as an important pedagogical resource, oriented to the rescue of the origins of Medicine, being the technologies and medical science incorporated for the benefit of the patient protagonist in a process of voluntary mutualism between medical art and medical science. This desire sums up in the phrases: “The curricular contents should teach not only the auscultation but the Listening; not only the palpation, but the Comfort to those who suffer; and not only to treat but to broaden the meaning of the act of caring”; “the worst man in science is he who is never an artist, and the worst artist is one who is never a man of science.”
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René Favaloro, the Idealist
José Guilherme Pinheiro PIRES, Pedro Henrique Martins de OLIVEIRA, Rafael Vinícius Lôndero Quintino dos SANTOS
Original title: O Idealista, René Favaloro
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Keywords: Bypass, Favaloro, Saphenous Vein Bypass.
René Favaloro was born in the city of La Plata, capital of the province of Buenos Aires on July 14, 1923. Born in a humble crib, he was able to enter and be graduated as medical doctor by the National University of La Plata in 1949. He became a doctor rural community by brilliantly practicing medicine with humanism in the small town of Jacinto Aráuz, before moving to the United States, where he revolutionized cardiac surgery. He dedicated his life to medicine and to disseminate humanism within it, for which he founded the Favaloro Foundation. Unable to withstand the corruption and tragic situation in which his beloved country was, he committed suicide on July 29, 2000.
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Organ Procurement Initiatives and the Sacredness of Human Life: A Christian Perspective
Allan H. ROBERTS II
Original title: Iniciativas de Obtenção de Órgãos e Santidade da Vida Humana: Uma Perspectiva Cristã
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Keywords: Organ Donation, Sacredness of Human Life.
The practice of organ procurement for transplantation is deeply engrained in the consciousness of the public worldwide, and is endorsed by most religions including Christianity. With the advent of the life-saving successes of organ transplantation have come a number of ethical issues, including those concerning efforts to balance the needs of potential organ recipients with those of possible organ donors. In this paper, I endorse current organ procurement procedures; I then describe several changes to current practice that have been suggested. I contend that each of these proposed innovations creates an imbalance regarding the Christian tenet of the absolute sacredness of all persons.
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Medical Humanities in Dialogue
Hélio ANGOTTI NETO
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