2024-01-19 20:15:10
IntraMed is pleased to make this medical book available to you in electronic form thanks to Interpharm Laboratories. Likewise, we share some questions asked exclusively to one of its authors: Dr. Victor Lanchi Zúñiga.
“We learned what redoubled effort and sacrifice means. And above all, we understood that it is possible to overcome obstacles, that projects can be restructured, that there are those who need us. And from that need the idea of this book was born. To know that sometimes there are many questions and few answers, to understand that beyond the circumstances there is the desire to improve, that following the crisis comes recovery.”expresses the book “Internal Medicine Protocols. Hospitalized patient”written by Dr. Víctor Lanchi Zúñiga and the Dra. Karen Pamela Sarango Gonzalezin his presentation text.
A material published in 2023 – aimed at general practitioners, residents and medical students – which, as Lanchi mentions, was born with the intention of “to unite in a single book what is seen most in the hospital”, since there is a lot of bibliography. “Despite being just another book, it is written in a way that makes it easy to read and understand.Add.
The objective is, then, to make it a useful tool in the process of teaching and addressing the different diseases that are part of the reality of internists and that are subject to hospitalization.
In addition to presenting the book in PDF, IntraMed spoke exclusively with the Dr. Lanchi Zúñiga regarding the common path between the content of the book and those aspects that participate in his daily practice as an Internist.
Victor Lanchi Zúñiga He is a general practitioner at the University of Cuenca, an internist at the University of Cuenca, a Master of Endocrinology at the University of Alcalá; Master in Nutrition at the University of Guayaquil; and a diploma in HIV-AIDS at the University of Guayaquil.
Likewise, he has a diploma in university teaching at the UTPL and teaching at the Technical University of Machala; He has training in Diabetes (FUEDIN); and he is an attending physician at the Teófilo Dávila General Hospital.
What transformations has the epidemiology of hospitalized patients undergone in recent years?
Bedriddenness, anxiety, and loneliness—regardless of the cause for which you were hospitalized—add to illnesses that cause hospital admissions. Even more so with what Covid-19 caused.
What are the fundamental competencies that an internist requires for his or her practice?
Understand the patient, make necessary contact, analyze symptoms and signs, work as a team, in order to request tests and choose the best treatment.
What are the most frequent difficulties in managing hospitalized patients?
Beyond the severity itself, the shortage of medication and diagnostic means in public hospitals. Also the lack of importance and personnel to avoid complications of bed rest and anxiety.
What is the value of standardized protocols and what is the value of individual clinical judgment situated in each case?
Protocols are pathways that might be used to facilitate diagnosis or treatment. It will improve clinical judgment in relation to the patient’s pathology.
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