Introduction: The World Health Organization defined the compulsory need to redirect all educational, research and public health service activities of medical schools to meet all priority health needs, attributing to them this social responsibility role. Due to the emergency situation in the public health system caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, as a measure of social accountability, remote medical care services and online education were adopted in order to continue following the curricular program and to provide assistance to local city governments. Experience report: Two months before graduation, medical students followed-up on the monitoring of residents and COVID-19 healthcare professionals of forty-three ILPIs (Long-Term Elderly Care Facilities) in the city of Sao Jose do Rio Preto, state of Sao Paulo, Brazil. The medical students made daily telephone calls to all these ILPI units, requesting information, generally from the head nurses and owners, about the main COVID-19 symptoms that were detected in the residents and employees of these facilities. All the collected information was discussed daily with the teacher in charge of mentoring the program, fed into an online database and into a work schedule chart, then relayed to the local Municipal Health Secretariat. A COVID-19 contingency plan was devised by the team, authorized by the Local Health Secretariat and then presented to the ILPIs, aiming to offer them the best guidance throughout the pandemic. Discussion: the COVID-19 pandemic revealed the Health Education System’s fragilities, limitations and capacity to adapt to this crisis, thus largely contributing to improving the training of new medical doctors. During the program, medical students faced many challenges, especially regarding the difficulty to contact some ILPIs by telephone, omitted or erroneous information provided by employees in these facilities and delays in reporting suspected cases. In spite of this scenario, daily contact with these facilities allowed the team to identify the ILPIs that were more adequately prepared and the ones that needed auditing and further supervision. Also, this daily contact established a bond between the team and the ILPIs. Conclusion: During the pandemic, it was possible to perform actions according to the logic of social accountability, demonstrating that remote online medical practice is a tool capable of both maintaining interns in contact with the practical aspects of medical care and providing medical assistance to the community and to the local government.
Modelo do estudo: Relato de caso. Importância do problema e comentários: A discinesia paroxística não cinesiogênica é um tipo de discinesia paroxística. É caracterizada por movimentos involuntários unilaterais ou bilaterais, do tipo coreico, distônico, balístico ou misto. É uma desordem rara e o diagnóstico precoce é crucial para seu tratamento e melhoria na qualidade de vida do indivíduo. O presente estudo relata um caso de Discinesia Paroxística Não Cinesiogênica e seus achados clínicos, além de apresentar breve revisão da literatura.
Introduction: The World Health Organization defined the compulsory need to redirect all educational, research and public health service activities of medical schools to meet all priority health needs, attributing to them this social responsibility role. Due to the emergency situation in the public health system caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, as a measure of social accountability, remote medical care services and online education were adopted in order to continue following the curricular program and to provide assistance to local city governments. Experience report: Two months before graduation, medical students followed-up on the monitoring of residents and COVID-19 healthcare professionals of forty-three ILPIs (Long-Term Elderly Care Facilities) in the city of Sao Jose do Rio Preto, state of Sao Paulo, Brazil. The medical students made daily telephone calls to all these ILPI units, requesting information, generally from the head nurses and owners, about the main COVID-19 symptoms that were detected in the residents and employees of these facilities. All the collected information was discussed daily with the teacher in charge of mentoring the program, fed into an online database and into a work schedule chart, then relayed to the local Municipal Health Secretariat. A COVID-19 contingency plan was devised by the team, authorized by the Local Health Secretariat and then presented to the ILPIs, aiming to offer them the best guidance throughout the pandemic. Discussion: the COVID-19 pandemic revealed the Health Education System’s fragilities, limitations and capacity to adapt to this crisis, thus largely contributing to improving the training of new medical doctors. During the program, medical students faced many challenges, especially regarding the difficulty to contact some ILPIs by telephone, omitted or erroneous information provided by employees in these facilities and delays in reporting suspected cases. In spite of this scenario, daily contact with these facilities allowed the team to identify the ILPIs that were more adequately prepared and the ones that needed auditing and further supervision. Also, this daily contact established a bond between the team and the ILPIs. Conclusion: During the pandemic, it was possible to perform actions according to the logic of social accountability, demonstrating that remote online medical practice is a tool capable of both maintaining interns in contact with the practical aspects of medical care and providing medical assistance to the community and to the local government.
Importância do problema: A síndrome da deficiência do transportador de glicose tipo 1 (GLUT1DS), descrita pela primeira vez por De Vivo em 1991, é causada por um deficitário transporte de glicose na barreira hematoencefálica e astrócitos por mutações na maioria das vezes de novo heterozigóticas no gene SLC2A1, responsável pela codificação do transportador de glicose tipo 1 (GLUT-1). Esta mutação limita a disponibilidade de glicose cerebral levando a sua deficiência energética, sendo o mecanismo gerador de suas manifestações clínicas. Os sintomas sugestivos são convulsões, atraso no desenvolvimento, microcefalia, hipotonia, espasticidade e complexas alterações no movimento consistindo de ataxia e distonia. Em pacientes GLUT1DS, substratos energéticos alternativos são de fundamental importância. Inúmeros trabalhos recomendam a utilização da dieta cetogênica de maneira imperiosa como mecanismo padrão ouro de tratamento. Esta, nos primeiros anos de vida em pacientes com GLUT1DS, garante um melhor resultado cognitivo e melhora nos aspectos psicomotores. Comentários: A GLUT1DS por ser uma doença de recente descoberta, poucos casos descritos na literatura, características clínicas heterogêneas e falta substancial de casuística é muitas vezes subdiagnosticada. Neste sentido, critérios de suspeição e algoritmos diagnósticos se fazem necessários. Desta maneira, o objetivo deste artigo é chamar a atenção da comunidade médica brasileira a essa síndrome com vistas a incrementar seu diagnóstico e melhorar o prognóstico de epilepsias de difícil controle.
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