Introducción: el estado epiléptico es una emergencia con serias implicaciones a nivel social y económico, cuando no se maneja de manera adecuada puede llevar a la muerte. Debe abordarse por el primer especialista que tenga contacto con el paciente. En Colombia ...
The presence of women in medicine and urology has been increasing. However, there is a large disparity in leadership positions. In 2017, women constituted 3.3% of chairs, 4.5% of vice-chairs, and 7.9% of division directors in the United States,[1] similar positions in Colombia. It is unclear why this dee...
“Destiny guides our fortunes more favorably than we could have expected” wrote Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, author of the legendary novel Don Quixote of La Mancha. These words describe exactly what has happened to us over the past year. We met by chance at a urology congress last August in the City ...
Minimally invasive surgery is one of the areas of greatest development in surgical specialties in several parts of the world, and Colombia has not been the exception. In urology, as in all specialties, the evolution in technology has optimized the diagnosis and the treatment of most of the pathologies. T...
Abstract Perioperative anaphylaxis represents a complex diagnosis due to the varying intensity of the symptoms which are also shared with other pathologies. This article discusses a case of a patient that sustained 2 probable anaphylactic reactions during consecutive cranial surgeries under general anest...
Introducción: el objetivo de este estudio fue evaluar el efecto de la reducción del número de opciones de respuesta por pregunta sobre los indicadores sicométricos de un examen de ingreso a estudios médicos de posgrado. Metodología: aplicación de índices de evaluación sicométrica desde la persp...
