ABSTRACT Purpose: To report the prevalence of the definitions used to identify post-prostatectomy incontinence (PPI) after laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (LRP), and to compare the rates of PPI over time under different criteria. Materials and Methods: In the period from January 1, 2000, until December 31, 2017, we used a recently described methodology to perform evidence acquisition called reverse systematic review (RSR). The continence definition and rates were evaluated and compared at 1, 3, 6, 12, and >18 months post-operative. Moreover, the RSR showed the “natural history” of PPI after LRP. Results: We identified 353 review articles in the systematized search, 137 studies about PPI were selected for data collection, and finally were included 203 reports (nr) with 51.436 patients. The most used criterion of continence was No pad (nr=121; 59.6%), the second one was Safety pad (nr=57; 28.1%). A statistically significant difference between continence criteria was identified only at >18 months (p=0.044). From 2013 until the end of our analysis, the Safety pad and Others became the most reported. Conclusion: RSR revealed the “natural history” of PPI after the LRP technique, and showed that through time the Safety pad concept was mainly used. However, paradoxically, we demonstrated that the two most utilized criteria, Safety pad and No pad, had similar PPI outcomes. Further effort should be made to standardize the PPI denomination to evaluate, compare and discuss the urinary post-operatory function.

Este trabalho foi realizado com o objetivo de oferecer aos estudantes de graduação em Medicina da Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp) a vivência de ações de saúde pública, segundo princípios do Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS), por meio da elaboração de um projeto coletivo de promoção da saúde ocular de crianças de 0 a 7 anos. Para isto, foi aplicado um questionário para levantar as necessidades em relação à saúde ocular em uma amostra da população usuária do Centro de Saúde Jardim Santa Mônica em Campinas (SP), em 2003. Nele, percebeu-se a falta de informações sobre cuidados básicos com os olhos e de recursos e qualificação profissional para diagnóstico e tratamento, bem como o desconhecimento dos direitos à saúde e a ausência de medidas preventivas, principalmente para crianças. Foi desenvolvido, então, um projeto de ação e aprendizado com alunos, professores, agentes comunitários de saúde e auxiliares de uma creche do bairro, formando uma equipe de trabalho. Foram realizadas oficinas com essa equipe, na perspectiva da promoção e proteção da saúde ocular. Para a sustentabilidade do projeto, o planejamento previu a criação de um banco de óculos para a doação de armações e garantia da confecção para as pessoas com dificuldades financeiras. A experiência da construção e da aplicação do projeto permitiu o conhecimento, na prática, da organização dos serviços e a dinâmica do sistema de saúde, inclusive para compreender alguns limites e sugerir políticas públicas de saúde ocular que correspondam às necessidades da população, apontando-se o papel do médico no desencadeamento de um trabalho coletivo de compartilhamento de saberes e responsabilidades.

The goal of this project was to promote eye health and provide eye care to children from 0 to 7 years of age and to offer to medical students of Unicamp the possibility of participating in practice in a public health action carried out according to the principles of the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS - Sistema Único de Saúde). In 2003, a questionnaire was applied to a sample of users of the Jardim Santa Mônica Health Care Center in Campinas, SP. Analysis of the data there obtained revealed some deficiencies in the promotion of eye health such as lack of information about basic eye care, lack of resources for treatment, lack of information about the right to care by the Unified Health System and the absence of any preventive measures, mainly for children. Thus, a project was developed offering workshops for students, teachers, community health agents and personnel from a neighborhood nurser y-school to enable them to act as multipliers of the obtained knowledge and to initiate a process of awareness building. A spectacle bank was created in order to grant the sustainability of the project, offering the confection of eye glasses with frames donated by the population and lenses offered by the city government and some optic stores to needed persons. Through this experience the medical students could obtain some practical knowledge about the organization of health services and the dynamics of the health system, enabling them to understand some limitations and to suggest public eye health policies meeting the needs of the population. A closer study of this project shows not only how important this kind of action is for the most needed segments of society but also the role a doctor can play as someone able to convince people to go for their rights.