Two years following the Covid-19 pandemic, specialists in critical medicine meet once more in Guadalajara to analyze advances in technology and research for the care of critical patients or those in intensive care.
With the pandemic, this area of medicine became more visible in the world population due to the state of health that the SARS-Cov2 virus generated in patients; a high percentage was in the Intensive Care Units (ICU).
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The president of the Mexican College of Critical Medicine (COMMEC), Julio César Mijangos Méndez, indicated that an important part of the population was unaware that there were doctors specialized in critical patients, and that they might provide permanent care and surveillance.
In these two years, one of the challenges for specialists in intensive care has been to maintain collaboration and learn regarding the evolution and critical condition of patients worldwide.
“In this period of the beginning of the pandemic, we in Mexico had direct contact with colleagues from China, Argentina, Spain, France, we had many collaborations that allowed us to have at hand what they are experiencing in their countries.”
In these 31 months of the international health emergency, Mijangos Méndez specified that one of the greatest challenges is to offer better care to critical patients who require intensive care.
“People sometimes thought that intensive care was a person who did not have an option to get ahead, but it is the opposite, the people we can attend to in critical care are precisely the people who have a very high possibility of being able to get ahead. ”.
In addition to staying at the forefront with technology and research that is being developed in one of the most important areas to ensure that patients who are in an ICU are controlled, it is for this reason that the XLIX Annual Congress of the Mexican College of Critical Medicine (COMMEC).
“We now deal with this type of events to be able to train our national doctors, with the latest technology and with the professors of international stature that they can provide us; we are regarding to sign collaboration agreements with research registries.”
During the event, he indicated that agreements will be signed between societies and organizations, this will allow the development and advancement of critical medicine in Mexico. In the country it is estimated that there are more than two thousand specialists in intensive care.