RESUMO
Health care professionals must be prepared, both as scientists and as humans, to treat, accompany and help anyone in the difficult moments prior to their death. The following study aims to identify the attitude of Health Sciences students to their own death process and the circumstances surrounding it, so as to be able to give them appropriate training in caring for those in this situation. 666 Health Sciences students at the University of Murcia were given a questionnaire dealing with different aspects of what would cause them peace or anxiety during their death process. We can see from the results that the thing that would most help them to die peacefully would be knowing that their life would not be prolonged artificially, and what worries them most is pain and suffering. We have reached the following conclusions from these results: we must train future health care professionals on a personal and professional level so that they are able to provide quality care and comfort in those situations and aspects that are associated with death in order to preclude wanting a quick death.
Assuntos
Atitude do Pessoal de Saúde , Atitude Frente a Morte , Estudantes de Ciências da Saúde/psicologia , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Especialidade de Fisioterapia/educação , Psicologia/educação , Estudantes de Odontologia/psicologia , Estudantes de Medicina/psicologia , Estudantes de Enfermagem/psicologia , Inquéritos e QuestionáriosRESUMO
After nasal provocation test in patients with allergic rhinitis, using the allergen they were sensitized to, we have observed: 1) an increase in the percentage of nasal eosinophils after 2, 3, 24 and 48 hours; 2) sneezes, mainly in the first 30 minutes; 3) nasal obstruction in the first three hours; 4) absence of rhinorrhea, but not in all the patients; and 5) no predominance of nasal, auricular and/or palatine pruritus at any time. When patients without rhinitis, or with allergic rhinitis were stimulated using a pneumoallergen they were not sensitized to, no significative increase in the nasal eosinophils percentage was found. No symptoms were observed either. So, we can conclude that nasal secretion samples, for eosinophilia percentage determination, should be taken from 2 to 48 hours after nasal provocation, and that the most frequent symptoms, which are probably related to cellular changes, are nasal obstruction and sneezes.