Abstract Biological risks are currently of great interest and concern due to the coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) pandemic. In this setting, the exposure of anesthetists and healthcare personnel to patients infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome-CoV-2 causing COVID-19 in their professional prac...
Among healthcare workers, anesthetists are considered to have a high occupational risk. However, we are paradoxi cal specialists because we care for the health of our patients but not for ours, at least not to the degree that we should.1-3 Against this backdrop, biological risks derived from respiratory ...
Abstract Introduction: Anesthesiology requires procedure fulfillment, problem, and real-time crisis resolution, problem, and complications forecast, among others; therefore, the evaluation of its learning should center around how students achieve competence rather than solely focusing on knowledge acqui...
Abstract Introduction: The safety climate (SC) measurement in the hospitals, is essential for the development of a patient safety policy (PSP). Information about SC in the operating rooms is scarce. Objective: To measure the dimensions of SC in Colombian Operating Rooms according to characteristics of ...
Abstract Sickle cell anemia or drepanocytosis is a hemoglobinopathy with autosomal recessive inheritance. A longer life expectancy of these patients and the fact that 50% have aseptic osteonecrosis of the hip make total hip arthroplasty a frequent procedure. We present the case of a 34-year-old male diag...
In their editorial, Gómez-Duarte1 suggests that the association of dipyrone with multiple adverse effects should lead to reconsider its use. We are of the opinion that such position neglects part of the available evidence, although we recognize that based on such evidence different views arise with rega...
Based on its recently defined greater purpose, that is, "Integrating caregivers watching over their excellence and professional development so that healthcare becomes a safe, caring and humanized pathway" the Colombian Society of Anesthesiology and Resuscitation (S.C.A.R.E.) has been devising a number of...
Abstract Introduction: The perioperative management of achondroplastic pregnant patients that will undergo lower segment cesarean section represents a clinical challenge to the anesthesiologist. Objective: To describe the anesthetic management of a pregnant patient with achondroplasia, programed for lo...
Doctor Echeverri:
En referencia al artículo del Dr. Juan Carlos Giraldo1 publicado en la Revista Colombiana de Cardiología (abril de 2014),
titulado Anestesia cardiovascular: ¿Cardiología en salas de
Cirugía? me gustaría darle mis felicitaciones al autor por
el interesante enfoque que plantea en la...
Virginia Apgar (1909-1974) fue una importante médica estadounidense mundialmente famosa por haber diseñado la escala que lleva su nombre y que se utiliza para evaluar neonatos que nacen en cualquier lugar del planeta donde se realice medicina moderna. Además de su trabajo como anestesióloga, docente ...
