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El sistema de atención en el Servicio de Emergencias Médicas de un hospital

Introducción: El sistema de emergencia hospitalaria es el umbral indispensable para ingresar al sistema de atención. Con la tamización de las consultas se puede dar agilidad, eficiencia y coordinación certera en el diagnóstico y tratamiento, aportando un tránsito dinámico para mantener el equilibr...

Sepsis neonatal: aspectos fisiopatológicos y biomarcadores

Med. UIS; 32 (3), 2019
Resumen La sepsis neonatal es una causa importante de morbilidad y mortalidad en recién nacidos a nivel mundial. Su diagnóstico es difícil por sus manifestaciones clínicas inespecíficas y la poca disponibilidad de métodos diagnósticos eficientes. En la fisiopatología de la sepsis se ha descrito u...

Fiscal austerity and the health sector: the cost of adjustments

Abstract Fiscal austerity policies have been used as responses to economic crises and fiscal deficits in both developed and developing countries. While they vary in regard to their content, intensity and implementation, such models recommend reducing public expenses and social investments, retracting the...

Austerity policies in Brazil may affect violence related outcomes

Abstract Economic crisis is often managed with austerity policies. These measures seem to burden the population disproportionately, with the poorer being more affected. This paper aims to investigate health outcomes performance after the recent Brazilian crisis and gauge whether that pattern also emerged...

Infections in patients with multiple myeloma treated with conventional chemotherapy: a single-center, 10-year experience in Pakistan

ABSTRACT Introduction: Multiple myeloma (MM) is a common hematologic malignancy with variable degrees of immunodeficiency. Disease- and treatment-related compromise of the immune system predisposes patients to infections, which are a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Objective: We aimed to establ...

Mortalidad por infecciones asociadas a la asistencia sanitaria. Hospital Abel Santa María Cuadrado, 2015

Objetivo: caracterizar la mortalidad por infecciones asociadas a la asisten-cia sanitaria (IAAS) en el Hospital Abel Santamaría Cuadrado de Pinar del Río durante el año 2015.Metodología: estudio descriptivo de corte transversal. La muestra estuvo constituida por 278 pacientes fallecidos por infeccion...

Postoperative Chronic Osteomyelitis in the Long Bones - Current Knowledge and Management of the Problem

Abstract Chronic postoperative osteomyelitis represents an important health problem due to its significant morbidity and low mortality rate. This pathology is challenging because of difficulties in understanding the pathogenesis and the decision-making involving the treatment. The present article had the...

Spinal Metastasis Surgery: A Proposal for a Predictive Model of Morbidity and Mortality

Abstract Objective To develop a predictive model of early postoperative morbidity and mortality with the purpose of assisting in the selection of the candidates for spinal metastasis surgery. Methods A retrospective analysis of consecutive patients operated for metastatic spinal disease. The possible p...

Infectious Prophylaxis with Intrawound Vancomycin Powder in Orthopedic Surgeries: Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis

Abstract Despite many existing strategies used to reduce the rates of surgical site infection (SSI), these are still fairly frequent complications that pose a challenge for orthopedic surgeons. Therefore, the search for more effective methods of perioperative infection prophylaxis became a main subject o...

Premature mortality caused by the main chronic noncommunicable diseases in the Brazilian states

ABSTRACT Objective: To verify the variation of the premature mortality rate caused the group of the main chronic noncommunicable diseases. Method: This is a time-series ecological study, which used secondary data of the Mortality Information System, from 2006 to 2014, from the 26 federal units and from...