Colombian Academy of critical care medicine and Fresenius Medical Care promote education to prevent kidney failure in patients of care critic.

– according to statistics of the Colombian Academy of critical care medicine of each 1000 patients arriving at a care centre for emergencies are hospitalizados100, of these, 10 are referred to intensive care and 3 develop failure kidney.

-A patient with renal failure you cuasta to more than 1,200,000 per month health system

Bogota, 2011-September on 14 and 15 September at the Holiday Inn Hotel in Bogotá are expected more than 300 attendees, doctors and nurses, intensivistas, Nephrologists, and health professionals in generalfor the Symposium on critical care Nephrology membership is totally free.

The central theme of this symposium is aimed at acute renal patient treatments in dialysis and prevention of the illness in intensive care since training to professionals in the health care that must be patients in critical condition to avoid renal failure, can reduce not only the disease rates but costs produced by each patient Kidney which is of approximately 1´200.000.

The event will feature speakers international specialists in these subjects as Dr. John Alston Kellum, Intensivist, current Professor of critical care medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, Dr. José divine of Brazil, nephrologist and scientist of the Sweden Karolinska Institute, the University institution of high education in medicine largest worldwide and the DRA. Elizabeth Maccariello of Brazil, nefróloga, current Professor of services Renales of the University of Rio of Janeiro – UERJ.

Fresenius Medical Care and the Colombian Academy of critical care medicine promote academic events in order to update the knowledge to be then multiplied in the areas of application.

From the year 2009 Fresenius Medical Care, German company specialist in the treatment of dialysis with presence since 15 years in Colombia, in the company of the Academy Colombian of critical care medicine, has been concerned by informing professionals in the health of our country updates in Nephrology advanced in the world.