OBJECTIVE to analyze conceptions of nurses on child health surveillance in family health units. METHOD a qualitative study with thematic analysis of the data, based on the paradigm of Health Surveillance. Interviews were conducted with 13 nurses in a countryside city in the state of Sao Paulo. RESULTS nurses conceived child health surveillance as an active monitoring, which should be compre...

OBJECTIVE Assessing a patient's ability to walk the distance required for community ambulation (at least 300 m) is important in amputee rehabilitation. During the 2-min walk test, most amputees cannot walk 300 m. Thus, the 6-min walk test may be preferred, but it has not been fully validated in this population. This study examined the convergent and discriminative validity of the 6-min walk tes...

The first thing that has to be stated is that the threat remains of the disarticulation between objective approaches to violence, which may be quantified and which can claim to be universal as they are theoretically acceptable to all, and subjective or relative approaches, which look at what an individual, a group, or a society considers as such at any given time. A legal definition of violence...

Despite numerous advantages, knee disarticulations (KDs) are rarely performed because of the anticipated KD prosthesis fitting problems that include the positioning of the knee joint distally from the KD socket. This results in lengthening of the thigh and subsequent shortening of the shank. The objective of this study was to assess the cosmetic effect of the knee joint in a KD prosthesis by de...

Hip disarticulation is a rare major lower extremity amputation that usually performed after trauma or severe infection by orthopedic and plastic surgeons. Rarely, vascular surgery patients require this type of for progressive ischemia necrosis above the mid femur level leg. The purpose study to evaluate factors influencing procedure as well indications outcomes hip disarticulations at our insti...