In this dissertation is proposed a methodology to identify patient's recovery patterns after cardiovascular surgery based on laboratory tests results. The main purpose is to enhance the understanding of the manifestations of postsurgical complications in patients who underwent cardiovascular surgery. The analysis of patients' recovery process is based on the relationship between plasma calcium, ionized calcium and platelet count over time. Laboratory results from the James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital databases, related to patients admitted to the Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) after cardiac surgery (coronary artery bypass, aortic value replacement and mitral valve replacement), are used. These databases contain information regarding commonly ordered tests such as Complete Blood Count tests (CBC) and Basic Metabolic Panel (BMP) for a large group of patients over time. Physicians usually order these tests as a component of screening, routine evaluation, or serial assessment. These test results, contain a large amount of information used by most physicians during the diagnosis process and patient monitoring. This study creates time series of some components of the aforementioned tests to analyze their behavior during the perioperative and postoperative period. Time series based clusters are developed to determine the similarities among tests results from four different types of patients: patients who had a satisfactory recovery process without any manifestation of complications, patients who experienced complications but survived, viii patients who experienced complications and then died during their recovery and patients who died during the perioperative period. As a conclusion, the time series based clustering techniques were able to identify whether a patient is likely to fully recover from the surgery, but it does not have the power to detect effectively results corresponding to a patient experiencing complications. The development of this methodology provides statistical evidence of the differences among different patterns on patient recovery. It is clear that patients experiencing complications have a steeper drop of test results after surgery, and also a non-stable trend towards normal levels. The appropriate use of the proposed methodology could help to timely anticipate complications in patient condition, improve the comprehensiveness of the assessment of patient condition based on laboratory test results and enhance the utilization of laboratory results databases.

Hematology-instruments that analyze blood cells can at specific casesbe followed by manual counting with a hemocytometer. The plastic hemocytometer which has a fixed coverslip and is assigned for disposable use, appears to reduce the problems arising from the use of the traditional glass hemocytometer, for instance coverslip-application difficulty and dust particles. Capillary whole blood sampling may be useful for patients at the emergency department and in addition, a smaller volume of blood is taken compared to venous blood sampling. This study will focus on the platelet- and leukocyte count (PLT and WBC) in venous and capillary blood, in order to compare the plastic- and glass hemocytometers with Sysmex XN-2000 (Sysmex Corporation, Kobe, Japan), and verify if capillary whole blood sampling can be used for the measurement of these hematological parameters. 30 subjects donated both capillary- and venous blood samples and these blood samples were analyzed with glass- and plastic hemocytometers with Sysmex XN-2000 as the reference method. The study results showed high correlation between the reference method and plastic hemocytometer at low PLT but were not suitable for WBC-determination. The capillary whole blood showed high correlation to the reference method at WBC-determination, but was unusable at PLT-determination. Glass hemocytometer was closer to the reference method results than plastic hemocytometer was.

Introduction : L’effet biologique variable de l’aspirine a été attribué à un état de résistance pharmacologique. L’incidence de cette « résistance » varie selon la population ou la technologie étudiée. Méthodes : Nous avons déterminé la performance de 5 techniques évaluant l’effet de l’aspirine chez des sujets sains, non fumeurs et ne prenant aucune médication pouvant interférer avec la fonction plaquettaire. Des spécimens de sang et d’urine ont été obtenus avant et après 8-10 jours de prise de 80 mg d’aspirine. Résultats: Chez 45 sujets de 19-59 ans, la sensibilité (SE), la spécificité (SP), et la valeur optimale de coupure (CO) pour détecter l’effet de l’aspirine sont : agrégométrie par transmission optique induite avec 1,6 mM d’acide arachidonique (ATO-AA) - SE 100%, SP 95,9%, CO 20%; ATO-ADP 10 μM - SE 84,4%, SP 77,7%, CO 70%; VerifyNow® Aspirin - SE 100%, SP 95,6%, CO 550 ARU; agrégation en tube - SE 82,2%, SP 86,7%, CO 55%; TEG® - SE 82,9%, SP 75,8%, CO 90%; et le dosage de 11-dehydrothromboxane B2 urinaire - SE 62,2%, SP 82,2%, CO 60 pg/ml. Conclusions: La résistance à l’aspirine chez les sujets sains définie par ATO-AA et VerifyNow® Aspirin est rare. Puisque les autres techniques étudiées discriminent de façon sous optimale l’effet de l’aspirine, leur utilité dans la définition de la résistance pharmacologique à l’aspirine semble marginale. Ces résultats suggèrent qu’une proportion de la variabilité de l’incidence rapportée de “résistance à l’aspirine” est artefactuelle et reliée aux limitations technologiques de certaines analyses. / Background: Variable biological effect of aspirin is suggested to be related to pharmacological resistance. The incidence of this so-called “resistant” state varies with the study population and the assay used. Methods: We determined performance features of five assays used to assess aspirin effects in non smoking healthy volunteers not taking any drug known to interfere with platelet function. Blood and urine samples were obtained immediately before and after 8-10 days of aspirin 80 mg intake. Results: Forty-five participants 19-59 years old were enrolled. The sensitivity (SE), specificity (SP), and optimal cut-off (CO) value to detect the effect of aspirin were: light transmission aggregometry (LTA) with 1.6 mM arachidonic acid - SE 100%, SP 95.9%, CO 20%; LTA with ADP 10 μM - SE 84.4%, SP 77.7%, CO 70%; VerifyNow® Aspirin - SE 100%, SP 95.6%, CO 550 ARU; platelet count drop - SE 82.2%, SP 86.7%, CO 55%; TEG® - SE 82.9%, SP 75.8%, CO 90%; and urinary 11-dehydrothromboxane B2 levels - SE 62.2%, SP 82.2%, CO 60 pg/ml. Conclusions: Aspirin resistance in normal individuals as defined by arachidonic acid-induced LTA and the VerifyNow® assay is rare. Because the other assays discriminate suboptimally aspirin effect, they should not be used to define pharmacological “aspirin resistance”. These results suggest that a proportion of the variability in the reported incidence of aspirin resistance is artefactual and related to technical limitations of some assays.

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Philosophiae Doctor - PhD / This thesis is about HELLP Syndrome (hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, low platelet count in pregnancy): a devastating maternal hypertensive complication that results in multi-system changes that can rapidly deteriorate into organ failure and death. Despite rapid advancesin medical technology and medical science this disease continues to take the lives of women and their infants. The only effective intervention for this disorder is immediate termination irrespective of the gestational stage of the pregnancy. The primary objective of this thesis was to explore the subjective experiences and meaningmaking processes of women in and through their high-risk pregnancies. This objective crystallised into the following aims: to facilitate and listen to the voices of women who were HELLP Syndrome survivors; to explore the reported bodily, psychological and emotional experiences of HELLP Syndrome survivors; to understand the role medical intervention and biomedical discourses play in these women’s experiences and finally to explore the subjective experiences of HELLP Syndrome in the context of traditionallyheld notions of motherhood. The study was couched in a feminist poststructuralist epistemology. A material-discursive framework which comprised phenomenological and poststructuralist theorising was usedin an attempt to understand both the lived experiences as well as the discursively constructed nature of those subjective experiences. Thus the analysis encompassed both a broadly phenomenological framework to understand the lived experiences of HELLP Syndrome, and a discourse analysis to explore the meaning-making processes of participants in relation to larger social discourses, in particular the dominant biomedical and motherhood discourses. A qualitative approach using in depth semi-structured interviews was utilisedto gather data. Eleven participants from very diverse backgrounds consented to be part of thisstudy. The findings of the study highlighted the immense trauma, difficulties and challenges participants faced in these high-risk situations. What was evident from the analysis was that their experiences were so diverse and werecompletely shaped by the severity of the disorder and the gestational stage of the pregnancy. Some women ended up in the Intensive Care Units (ICU) and had near-death experiences, some had very premature babies, while some of the participants lost their babies during the process. With regards to the emotional, psychological and corporeal aspects of the disorder,participants described their situations as a disaster, painful and difficult. Due to the rapid deterioration of symptoms, they described the tempo of these events as a whirlwind in which they felt they had no control. Emotions ranged from shock, total disbelief and surprise to anger, helplessness and powerlessness. Lacking knowledge and access to appropriate information further compounded the situation for participants. Theparticipants who had premature babies found the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit experience (NICU) extremely challenging and stressful. A discourse analysis revealed that women’s talk was shaped by the disciplinary frameworks oftechnocratic medicine and patriarchal notions of gender. Participants’ discourses about their encounters inthe medical context werelocated in, and shaped by, the structure of health care in our country. In this regard binaries (like private versus public health care, women versus men and nurses versus doctors) were evident. Furthermore their hospital stay reflected their experiences in the Intensive Care (ICU) and the Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU) both of which are highly technologically orientated and managed. Biomedical discourses that filtered through the participants’ talk were: medicine as indisputable truth;mechanistic model of the body as machine; medical doctors as gods and the foetus as ‘super subject’. Discourses of risk were inevitably taken up as participants tried to make sense of both their current pregnancies and the potential ones to follow. The passage into motherhood for these participants was dependent on whether they had live babies or not. For those who had live babies it was a difficult time as they had to contend with their own recovery as well as the prematurity of their infants. The NICU experience was described as tiring, trying and cumbersome. For mothers who lost their babies it was a time of profound sadness and loss coupled to the notion that motherhood itself was lost. This loss of their children symbolised broken dreams, severed connections and a powerful taboo. In addition, discourses in which motherhood was naturalised and normalised saturated their talk and framed their experience in a narrative of deficit and failure. The ideologies of mother blame and the ‘all responsible’ mother were pervasive in their discussions. In conclusion, this high-risk situation represented a time of tremendous uncertainty and unpredictability for all participants and was powerfully shaped by dominant discourses about motherhood and the biomedical discursive and institutional framework in which participants were subjugated. The study thus highlights how the HELLP syndrome experience illuminates the erasure of women’s subjectivities while the foetus/infants’ life takes precedence. This has significant implications for scholarship in general and feminist scholarship in particular and highlights the need for this type of engagement in an area that has remained on the periphery of feminist research. / South Africa

Inom klinisk verksamhet är det av stor betydelse att känna till hållbarheten på olika analyter för att säkerställa att analysen inte genomförs på för gamla prover. Vid litteratursökning framgick att bland de publicerade studier som undersökt hållbarheten på blodprover har de flesta undersökt hållbarheten på venösa men inte kapillära blodprover. En vanligt förekommande analys med både venösa och kapillära prover är blodstatus, som inkluderar bland annat bestämning av hemoglobinkoncentrationen (Hb-), leukocyt- samt trombocytpartikelkoncentrationen (LPK och TPK). Analys av blodets celler kan ge allmän information om hälsotillståndet hos patienter och är därav viktiga och vanligt förekommande analyser. Syftet med examensarbetet var att undersöka hållbarheten för analyserna Hb, LPK och TPK på kapillära blodprover efter fyra och sex timmars förvaring i rumstemperatur. Provmaterialet utgjordes av 100 kapillära prover som analyserades på hematologiinstrumentet Sysmex XN-10. Analysmetoden för Hb var fotometri med natriumlaurylsulfat- (SLS-) metoden. LPK bestämdes med flödescytometri medan TPK bestämdes med impedansmetoden alternativt flödescytometri. Resultatet visade att det för Hb inte förekom någon signifikant statistisk skillnad mellan den initiala analysen och efter fyra respektive sex timmar. Analysresultatet för Hb var därmed stabilt under förhållandena i denna studie. För LPK och TPK förekom statistiskt signifikanta skillnader mellan resultatet vid den initiala analysen jämfört med efter fyra respektive sex timmar. Analysresultaten för LPK och TPK var därmed inte lika stabila som Hb är under förhållandena i studien. Den statistiska skillnaden bedömdes däremot inte ha någon klinisk betydelse, vilket ledde till slutsatsen är att kapillära prover för analys av Hb, LPK och TPK är hållbara i sex timmar vid förvaring i rumstemperatur. / One important factor in clinical practice is understanding the stability of analytes and for how long blood samples can be stored before analysis. Most published studies are based on venous blood samples rather than capillary. The knowledge about storage time for cells in capillary blood is therefore limited. Plenty of information can be obtained by analysing the blood cells and its components, including haemoglobin, white blood cells and platelets. These analyses are therefore some of the most common in clinical practice. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of the analysis result for haemoglobin, white blood cells and platelets in capillary blood samples after storage at room temperature for four and six hours, respectively. In the study, 100 capillary samples from anonymous patients were analysed with the haematology analyser Sysmex XN-10. The method for analysing haemoglobin was the sodium lauryl sulphate (SLS) detection method with spectrophotometry. White blood cells were analysed with fluorescens flow cytometry. Platelets were analysed with either impedance or fluorescens flow cytometry. The result of the study showed no statistically significant difference between the initial analysis results in haemoglobin and at four and six hours, concluding that within the conditions of this study, the analysis result for haemoglobin was stable. Significant statical differences were identified for both white blood cells and platelet analysis results at four and six hours. However, the identified statistical significance was not esteemed to have any clinical relevance. In conclusion haemoglobin, white blood cells and platelets in capillary blood can be stored for at least six hours at room temperature.

Introdução: Trombocitopenia é a redução dos níveis plaquetários ocasionada por diversas condições, como hepatopatias e a Trombocitopenia Imune (TI), por exemplo. A redução de plaquetas na hepatopatia pode ocorrer devido à deficiência medular por hipovitaminose, aumento do consumo celular e hiperesplenismo e/ou devido à coagulação intravascular disseminada. Na Trombocitopenia Imune, a redução plaquetária ocorre tanto por maior destruição destas células quanto por diminuição medular de sua produção. Portadores de trombocitopenia podem apresentar achados orais como petéquias e/ou equimoses e sangramento gengival, espontâneo ou provocado. Procedimentos cirúrgico-odontológicos nestes pacientes devem ser realizados com cautela, após avaliação do seu quadro clínico e, preferencialmente, por profissional especializado. Muita controvérsia ainda existe em relação à abordagem cirúrgico-odontológica destes pacientes tanto em relação aos níveis plaquetários, quanto em relação à reposição plaquetária prévia, não havendo ainda, um protocolo internacionalmente estabelecido. Diversos métodos hemostáticos locais auxiliam durante este tipo de abordagem, sendo o agente a base de quitosana um dos métodos que têm se mostrado efetivo em diversos estudos e apresenta-se, ainda, menos oneroso que o selante de fibrina, por exemplo, um dos métodos mais utilizados. Objetivo: Desta forma, o objetivo desta pesquisa foi observar e descrever o desempenho clínico do agente a base de quitosana em pacientes com contagem plaquetária <= a 30.000/mm3 (Grupo Quitosana) submetidos a exodontias unitárias, utilizando como padrão de comparação o grupo de pacientes trombocitopênicos com contagem plaquetária entre 31.000 e 50.000/mm3 (Grupo Controle), submetidos a exodontias unitárias, sem o uso do curativo hemostático a base de quitosana e ainda, descrever o atendimento odontológico a pacientes com contagem plaquetária inferior a 50.000/mm3 . Casuística e métodos: Pacientes trombocitopênicos com contagem abaixo de 50.000/mm3 foram submetidos a exodontias unitárias, estando divididos em Grupo Quitosana(GQ):pacientes com plaquetas abaixo de 30.000/mm3, que receberam o agente a base de quitosana após a extração e, Grupo Controle(GC): pacientes com plaquetas entre 31.000/mm3 e 50.000/mm3 e que não receberam o agente a base de quitosana. O sangramento foi observado 7 dias após a exodontia através do Índice de Sangramento Alveolar Pós- Exodontia (ISAPE) e para análise estatística foi utilizado o programa SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) 20.0; nível de significância de 5% (p=0,05), e realizado o teste de Mann-Whitney, análise de Correlação de Spearman e, teste do Chi-Quadrado e Fator de risco com intervalo de confiança (IC) de 95%. Resultados: Foram realizadas 41 exodontias unitárias entre 03/2011 e 09/2012. A média de idade dos pacientes estudados foi de 46,58 ±10,87anos, com mediana de 48,50 (variando de 20 a 64). Dentre eles, 51,20% (n=21) eram do gênero feminino e 48,79% (n=20) do masculino. 21 procedimentos foram incluídos no GQ e, 20 procedimentos, no GC. O GQ apresentou contagem plaquetária entre 5.000 e 30.000/mm3 e ISAPE médio de 0,10; sendo que 2 (9,52%) pacientes tiveram ISAPE acima de zero. Já o GC apresentou plaquetas entre 31.000 e 50.000/mm3, ISAPE médio de 0,40 e 6 (30%) pacientes com ISAPE acima de zero. Não houve significância estatística em relação ao ISAPE. Discussão: Até o presente momento não foram encontrados outros trabalhos nos moldes da presente pesquisa nas bases de dados pesquisadas (Lilacs, Medline, Bireme). Inúmeros trabalhos buscam estabelecer a contagem plaquetária mínima necessária para um paciente ser submetido à cirurgia odontológica e ainda, quando será indicada reposição plaquetária prévia. Em ambos os aspectos a literatura se mostra controvérsia, havendo autores que indicam reposição plaquetária prévia a pacientes com plaquetas em torno de 100.000/mm3, e autores que relatam que cirurgias orais simples, como as exodontias unitárias, podem ser realizadas de forma segura sem reposição plaquetária em pacientes com plaquetas em torno de 30.000/mm3. Não existe atualmente um protocolo de atendimento estabelecido internacionalmente. O ISAPE não apresentou significância estatística entre os grupos estudados, aspecto possivelmente influenciado pela heterogeneidade dos grupos e/ou ainda, pelo número reduzido da amostra. Porém, a porcentagem dos pacientes que apresentaram ISAPE maior que 0 mostra efetividade do agente hemostático em 90,48% do GQ, concordando com Belman et al.(2006), Brown et al.(2007) e Wedmore et al.(2006) que mostram 80,0%, 79,0% e 97,0%, respectivamente. Conclusão: Não houve diferença estatística entre os grupos em relação ao desempenho clínico hemostático do curativo a base de quitosana. Foi possível descrever o protocolo de atendimento a pacientes trombocitopênicos efetivo e resolutivo, já utilizado rotineiramente na Divisão de Odontologia HC-FMUSP / Introduction: Thrombocytopenia is an abnormally low amount of platelets caused by many conditions as liver disorders and immune thrombocytopenia for example. The reduction of platele count in liver disorders may be caused by bone marrow deficiency due to hypovitaminosis, hypersplenism and disseminated intravascular coagulation while in immune thrombocytopenia may be caused by greater desctruction of these cells or its diminished production by the bone marrow. Patients with thrombocytopenia may present oral manifestations as petechiae and/or ecchymosis and provoked/spontaneous gingival bleeding. In these patients, surgical dental procedures should be performed with caution and only after a detailed medical assessment, preferably performed by a specialist. The dental management of patients with thrombocytopenia is still controversial regarding the amount of platelets and the need of platelet infusion prior to these procedures. To this date, no clinical guidelines has been developed regarding the dental management of patients with thrombocytopenia. Many hemostatic agents has been used to control post surgical bleeding. Many studies had shown thay chitosan is effective and cheaper than fibrin sealant, one of the most popular hemostatic agents. Objetive: This study was design to assess the effect of chitosan as a local haemostatic agent in patients with platelet count <= 30.000/mm3 compared to patients with thrombocytopenia and platelet count of 31.000/mm3 to 50.000/mm3 submitted to single dental extraction and to describe the protocol for dental treatment of patients with platelet count lower than 50.000/mm3 in a tertiary health science center. Methods: Patients with thrombocytopenia with platelet count lower than 50.000/mm3 were assessed. Patients with platelet count lower than 30.000/mm3 (study group) and patients with platelet count of 31.000/mm3 to 50.000/mm3 (control group) were submitted to single dental extraction. Chitosan was used only in the study group and no other type of hemostatic agent was used in the control group. Bleeding was measured according to the post dental extraction index (ISAPE) seven days after dental extraction. The results were statistically analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) 20.0 program. For statistical analysis, the Mann-Whitney test, Chi-square test, Spearman\'s rank correlation coeficient and confidence interval for relative risk (95%) were used. P< 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: Forty-one single dental extractions were performed between March/2011 and September/2012. The mean age of patients was 46,58 ±10,87 years of age. Median was 48,50 ranging from 20 to 64 years of age. Fifty-one percent (n=21) were females and 48,79% (n=20) males. Twenty-one extarctions were performe in the Chitosan group and 20 in the control group. Chitosan group presented platelet count of 5.000 to 30.000/mm3 and mean ISAPE médio of 0,10; where two patients (9.52%) had ISAPE greater than zero Control group presented with platelet count of 31.000 to 50.000/mm3, mean ISAPE of 0,40 and six patients (30%) with ISAPE greater than zero. No statistical significance was related to the ISAPE between groups. Discussion: The dental management of patients with thrombocytopenia is still controversial regarding the amount of platelets and the need of platelet infusion prior to these procedures. To this date, no clinical guidelines has been developed regarding the dental management of patients with thrombocytopenia. Many studies have tried to establish the minimal platelet count and the need of platelet infusion prior to oral surgery. Unfortunately, the scientific literature is controversial. Some authors recommend platelet infusion prior to oral surgery in patients with platelel count of 100.000/mm3 while others report that single extractions can be performed safely in patients with platelet count 30.000/mm3. In our study, the ISAPE was not stastistically diferent between groups, what may be explained by the heterogenicity of patients in both groups and by the small sample. However, the greater amount of patients (90%) who presented ISAPE greater 0 showed the effectiveness of chitosan as a hemostatic agent in agreement with previous authors as Belman et al.(2006), Brown et al.(2007) e Wedmore et al.(2006) that presented 80,0%, 79,0% e 97,0%, respectively. Conclusion: No difference was found regarding the effectiveness of chitosan as hemostatic agent between groups. A clinical guideline was developed on dental management of patients with thrombocytopenia and since then it has been used daily at the Department of Dentistry HC-FMUSP

Introdução: Trombocitopenia é a redução dos níveis plaquetários ocasionada por diversas condições, como hepatopatias e a Trombocitopenia Imune (TI), por exemplo. A redução de plaquetas na hepatopatia pode ocorrer devido à deficiência medular por hipovitaminose, aumento do consumo celular e hiperesplenismo e/ou devido à coagulação intravascular disseminada. Na Trombocitopenia Imune, a redução plaquetária ocorre tanto por maior destruição destas células quanto por diminuição medular de sua produção. Portadores de trombocitopenia podem apresentar achados orais como petéquias e/ou equimoses e sangramento gengival, espontâneo ou provocado. Procedimentos cirúrgico-odontológicos nestes pacientes devem ser realizados com cautela, após avaliação do seu quadro clínico e, preferencialmente, por profissional especializado. Muita controvérsia ainda existe em relação à abordagem cirúrgico-odontológica destes pacientes tanto em relação aos níveis plaquetários, quanto em relação à reposição plaquetária prévia, não havendo ainda, um protocolo internacionalmente estabelecido. Diversos métodos hemostáticos locais auxiliam durante este tipo de abordagem, sendo o agente a base de quitosana um dos métodos que têm se mostrado efetivo em diversos estudos e apresenta-se, ainda, menos oneroso que o selante de fibrina, por exemplo, um dos métodos mais utilizados. Objetivo: Desta forma, o objetivo desta pesquisa foi observar e descrever o desempenho clínico do agente a base de quitosana em pacientes com contagem plaquetária <= a 30.000/mm3 (Grupo Quitosana) submetidos a exodontias unitárias, utilizando como padrão de comparação o grupo de pacientes trombocitopênicos com contagem plaquetária entre 31.000 e 50.000/mm3 (Grupo Controle), submetidos a exodontias unitárias, sem o uso do curativo hemostático a base de quitosana e ainda, descrever o atendimento odontológico a pacientes com contagem plaquetária inferior a 50.000/mm3 . Casuística e métodos: Pacientes trombocitopênicos com contagem abaixo de 50.000/mm3 foram submetidos a exodontias unitárias, estando divididos em Grupo Quitosana(GQ):pacientes com plaquetas abaixo de 30.000/mm3, que receberam o agente a base de quitosana após a extração e, Grupo Controle(GC): pacientes com plaquetas entre 31.000/mm3 e 50.000/mm3 e que não receberam o agente a base de quitosana. O sangramento foi observado 7 dias após a exodontia através do Índice de Sangramento Alveolar Pós- Exodontia (ISAPE) e para análise estatística foi utilizado o programa SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) 20.0; nível de significância de 5% (p=0,05), e realizado o teste de Mann-Whitney, análise de Correlação de Spearman e, teste do Chi-Quadrado e Fator de risco com intervalo de confiança (IC) de 95%. Resultados: Foram realizadas 41 exodontias unitárias entre 03/2011 e 09/2012. A média de idade dos pacientes estudados foi de 46,58 ±10,87anos, com mediana de 48,50 (variando de 20 a 64). Dentre eles, 51,20% (n=21) eram do gênero feminino e 48,79% (n=20) do masculino. 21 procedimentos foram incluídos no GQ e, 20 procedimentos, no GC. O GQ apresentou contagem plaquetária entre 5.000 e 30.000/mm3 e ISAPE médio de 0,10; sendo que 2 (9,52%) pacientes tiveram ISAPE acima de zero. Já o GC apresentou plaquetas entre 31.000 e 50.000/mm3, ISAPE médio de 0,40 e 6 (30%) pacientes com ISAPE acima de zero. Não houve significância estatística em relação ao ISAPE. Discussão: Até o presente momento não foram encontrados outros trabalhos nos moldes da presente pesquisa nas bases de dados pesquisadas (Lilacs, Medline, Bireme). Inúmeros trabalhos buscam estabelecer a contagem plaquetária mínima necessária para um paciente ser submetido à cirurgia odontológica e ainda, quando será indicada reposição plaquetária prévia. Em ambos os aspectos a literatura se mostra controvérsia, havendo autores que indicam reposição plaquetária prévia a pacientes com plaquetas em torno de 100.000/mm3, e autores que relatam que cirurgias orais simples, como as exodontias unitárias, podem ser realizadas de forma segura sem reposição plaquetária em pacientes com plaquetas em torno de 30.000/mm3. Não existe atualmente um protocolo de atendimento estabelecido internacionalmente. O ISAPE não apresentou significância estatística entre os grupos estudados, aspecto possivelmente influenciado pela heterogeneidade dos grupos e/ou ainda, pelo número reduzido da amostra. Porém, a porcentagem dos pacientes que apresentaram ISAPE maior que 0 mostra efetividade do agente hemostático em 90,48% do GQ, concordando com Belman et al.(2006), Brown et al.(2007) e Wedmore et al.(2006) que mostram 80,0%, 79,0% e 97,0%, respectivamente. Conclusão: Não houve diferença estatística entre os grupos em relação ao desempenho clínico hemostático do curativo a base de quitosana. Foi possível descrever o protocolo de atendimento a pacientes trombocitopênicos efetivo e resolutivo, já utilizado rotineiramente na Divisão de Odontologia HC-FMUSP / Introduction: Thrombocytopenia is an abnormally low amount of platelets caused by many conditions as liver disorders and immune thrombocytopenia for example. The reduction of platele count in liver disorders may be caused by bone marrow deficiency due to hypovitaminosis, hypersplenism and disseminated intravascular coagulation while in immune thrombocytopenia may be caused by greater desctruction of these cells or its diminished production by the bone marrow. Patients with thrombocytopenia may present oral manifestations as petechiae and/or ecchymosis and provoked/spontaneous gingival bleeding. In these patients, surgical dental procedures should be performed with caution and only after a detailed medical assessment, preferably performed by a specialist. The dental management of patients with thrombocytopenia is still controversial regarding the amount of platelets and the need of platelet infusion prior to these procedures. To this date, no clinical guidelines has been developed regarding the dental management of patients with thrombocytopenia. Many hemostatic agents has been used to control post surgical bleeding. Many studies had shown thay chitosan is effective and cheaper than fibrin sealant, one of the most popular hemostatic agents. Objetive: This study was design to assess the effect of chitosan as a local haemostatic agent in patients with platelet count <= 30.000/mm3 compared to patients with thrombocytopenia and platelet count of 31.000/mm3 to 50.000/mm3 submitted to single dental extraction and to describe the protocol for dental treatment of patients with platelet count lower than 50.000/mm3 in a tertiary health science center. Methods: Patients with thrombocytopenia with platelet count lower than 50.000/mm3 were assessed. Patients with platelet count lower than 30.000/mm3 (study group) and patients with platelet count of 31.000/mm3 to 50.000/mm3 (control group) were submitted to single dental extraction. Chitosan was used only in the study group and no other type of hemostatic agent was used in the control group. Bleeding was measured according to the post dental extraction index (ISAPE) seven days after dental extraction. The results were statistically analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) 20.0 program. For statistical analysis, the Mann-Whitney test, Chi-square test, Spearman\'s rank correlation coeficient and confidence interval for relative risk (95%) were used. P< 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: Forty-one single dental extractions were performed between March/2011 and September/2012. The mean age of patients was 46,58 ±10,87 years of age. Median was 48,50 ranging from 20 to 64 years of age. Fifty-one percent (n=21) were females and 48,79% (n=20) males. Twenty-one extarctions were performe in the Chitosan group and 20 in the control group. Chitosan group presented platelet count of 5.000 to 30.000/mm3 and mean ISAPE médio of 0,10; where two patients (9.52%) had ISAPE greater than zero Control group presented with platelet count of 31.000 to 50.000/mm3, mean ISAPE of 0,40 and six patients (30%) with ISAPE greater than zero. No statistical significance was related to the ISAPE between groups. Discussion: The dental management of patients with thrombocytopenia is still controversial regarding the amount of platelets and the need of platelet infusion prior to these procedures. To this date, no clinical guidelines has been developed regarding the dental management of patients with thrombocytopenia. Many studies have tried to establish the minimal platelet count and the need of platelet infusion prior to oral surgery. Unfortunately, the scientific literature is controversial. Some authors recommend platelet infusion prior to oral surgery in patients with platelel count of 100.000/mm3 while others report that single extractions can be performed safely in patients with platelet count 30.000/mm3. In our study, the ISAPE was not stastistically diferent between groups, what may be explained by the heterogenicity of patients in both groups and by the small sample. However, the greater amount of patients (90%) who presented ISAPE greater 0 showed the effectiveness of chitosan as a hemostatic agent in agreement with previous authors as Belman et al.(2006), Brown et al.(2007) e Wedmore et al.(2006) that presented 80,0%, 79,0% e 97,0%, respectively. Conclusion: No difference was found regarding the effectiveness of chitosan as hemostatic agent between groups. A clinical guideline was developed on dental management of patients with thrombocytopenia and since then it has been used daily at the Department of Dentistry HC-FMUSP

In der vorliegenden Arbeit wurde anhand der im Rahmen des Vermont-Oxford-Neonatal-Networks erhobenen Daten an der Berliner Klinik für Neonatologie der Charité Campus Mitte und der Abteilung für neonatologische Intensivmedizin der Universitätskinderklinik in Innsbruck ein Benchmarking-Projekt für die Jahre 1997 bis 2001 durchgeführt. Nach der Analyse des Outcomes wurde eine Analyse der externen Evidenz anhand von Literatursuche in PubMed und der Cochrane Datenbank für systematische Reviews durchgeführt. Danach wurde ein Fragebogen entworfen, der gezielt Handlungsstrategien und -richtlinien bezüglich der relevanten Outcome-Parameter erfragt. Für das Benchmarking-Projekt wurden das Atemnotsyndrom, die nekrotisierende Enterokolitis und die bakteriellen Infektionen ausgewählt. Die Analyse der Handlungsstrategien durch den Fragebogen zeigte, dass in den drei Bereichen respiratorische Interventionen, Nahrung und Ernährung sowie im Infektionsmanagement Unterschiede vorlagen. In der Diskussion zeigte sich, dass in vielen Bereichen noch Bedarf nach guter externer Evidenz und weiterer Forschung besteht. / This dissertation presents the results of a 1997 - 2001 benchmark project in co-operation with the "Berliner Klinik für Neonatologie der Charité Campus Mitte" and the "Abteilung für neonatologische Intensivmedizin der Universitätskinderklinik" in Innsbruck. The study is based on the Vermont-Oxford-Neonatal-Network''s data. After analysing the results, further evidence was analysed by way of literary research in PubMed and the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. Afterwards, a questionnaire was created, lining out the clinical guidelines of the relevant outcome parameters. The respiratory distress syndrom, the necrotising enterocolitis and the bacterial infections were selected for the benchmark. The internal guidelines'' analysis showed that there were differences between the two clinics'' results in respiratory interventions, feeding and the management of infections. The discussion made clear that research based on further evidence is necessary in many fields.