28 julio 2022
Electrocardiograma en edad pediátrica
Atlas de ECG para medicina extrahospitalaria
22 julio 2022
Test de Silverman Andersen: ¿una herramienta útil?
Neonatal deaths are now responsible for nearly half of all childhood mortali
ty, and respiratory failure is the final common pathway in the most frequent causes of neonatal death. It makes of special relevance to find a way to identify patients prone to suffering from it. In low-resources settings it’s common to use the Silverman Andersen Respiratory Severity Score, and a group of professionals from Seattle Children’s Hospital (USA) evaluated the ability of de RSS to identify newborns in current or impending respiratory distress and concluded that can be valuable for that purpose. Afterwards, the authors simplified the scale, in four versions: removing the nasal flaring; removing the grunting; condensing the score with each component converted to absence or presence (0-1); and removing the grunting on the condensed scale. The conclusion was clear: every four of the simplified scales were as useful as the original to predict the need of respiratory support. When this is validated it’ll be possible to make the scale simplier to apply. You can download the article that proves the utility of the scale here, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1k9Bmj2zE3HV-2cER0cNclegfN4ks2S9w/view?usp=sharing, and find the other one here: https://doi.org/10.1111/apa.15142
19 julio 2022
Manual de capnografía volumétrica
15 julio 2022
Manejo del taponamiento pericárdico. Diagnóstico clínico y ecocardiográfico y tratamiento.
We published here, a few days ago, a review article on the new approaches to management of pericardial effusion. By a quirk of fate, it has been recently published, on the American Journal of Emergency Medicine, a complete review, clinical and echocardiographic, on the most life-threatening consequence of the pericardial effusion: the cardiac tamponade. Its authors are a group of American emergency doctors, and reviews the emergency department presentation and evaluation and also the posible echocardiographical findings. Finally, it approaches the ED management, that includes the drainage through pericardiocentesis. Emergent or urgent? Are there any contraindications? How to do it (with ECG assistance or with ultrasound assistance)? All the answers are within your reach here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uT0zqUP62ImqFXHoyyV2Y_6WLAuXU1Oj/view?usp=sharing
10 julio 2022
Consecuencias fisiológicas y fisiopatológicas de la ventilación mecánica
Enlace de descarga: https://bit.ly/3AEJfTX
08 julio 2022
Nuevos enfoques en el manejo del derrame pericárdico
El
derrame pericárdico es un síndrome pericárdico cuya gravedad se deriva del
peligro potencial de que progrese hasta producir un taponamiento cardiaco que
ponga en peligro la vida del paciente. Este artículo de revisión, firmado por
cuatro cardiólogos griegos, toma como base las recomendaciones 2015 de la
Sociedad Europea de Cardiología para hacer una revisión bibliográfica de la
evidencia más reciente, y en sus
conclusiones, que consideran que las recomendaciones siguen siendo en líneas
generales acertadas, abogan por la necesidad de que el tratamiento de los
pacientes con derrame pericárdico sea individualizado y decidido tomando en
cuenta su etiología.
Enlace de descarga: https://drive.google.com/file/d/14qRZKqmZIoVKOwaSdb27XkGZAhlHclNS/view?usp=sharing
01 julio 2022
Rehidratación intravenosa rápida en niños con gastroenteritis aguda
El artículo puede descargarse en español en el siguiente enlace: https://drive.google.com/file/d/12aBivdvTuuBb5wUcSN43YNo19yIQX9S_/view?usp=sharing
and can be downloaded in English here:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-ggvBPmwQRnPZ552iwllY2ujcALyTvK_/view?usp=sharing