Month: September 2011

New educational portal will improve control of antibiotics in Colombia

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new educational portal will improve control of antibiotics in Colombia

-Apex is a service created by Pfizer and the Colombian Association of the infectious diseases to prevent deaths caused by resistance to the drugs.

-The launch of the initiative, from 26 to 30 September, will feature the presence of international experts in resistance microbial.

-more than 700 Colombian specialists will receive training on the administration of drugs in Barranquilla, Pereira, Medellín and Bogotá.

-at least half of the prescription of antibiotics in Colombia could be wrong.

Bogotá, September of 2011. The Apex web platform, to be launched in Colombia from 26 to 30 September, will manage the use of antibiotics in hospital institutions in the country and combat the growing bacterial resistance to these drugs.

For the presentation of the site on the Internet, international experts will visit the country and trained more than 700 Colombian experts about the proper administration of drugs.

The Conference will be held in Barranquilla, Pereira, Medellín and Bogotá.

Directed infectólogos, internists, ICU physicians and heads of committees of infections, the portal is a joint effort between Pfizer and the Colombian Association of infectology (ACIN) and will be divided into two parts: educational and registration.

The first will provide information on the types of available antibiotics, concentrations and presentations recommended for each disease, and the correct way of prescribing them. The second will be comprised of a data bank, where each health centre will take control of the drugs used, doses prescribed presentations and patients receiving treatment.

The pulmonologist for intensivist Abraham Ali, “ Apex will be a very useful tool for hospitals “, because it will help to reduce the resistance to antibiotics, a phenomenon that produces the microbes do not yield to traditionally effective treatments to combat them.

Ali explains that resistance to antibiotics is produced by poor or excessive formulation of these medicines. This could be, he says the intensivist, lack of knowledge about how it should be used.

According to the World Health Organization (who), the situation causes it to be more difficult to control infections and puts patients at risk of dying by previously treatable diseases. For example, according to figures from the Agency, each year appear 440,000 new cases of MDR-TB that cause at least 150,000 deaths.

In Colombia, while there is not a national registry of resistant microorganisms, in a study published in 2008 by the Bogotá District secretariat of health, it is revealed that “ between 25% and 40% of all hospitalized patients receiving antibiotics, of which 50% of prescriptions can be wrong ”.

For Ali “ the situation is of concern worldwide because it has caused that we do not have how to deal with some bacteria ”. It ensures that occasionally arise germs for which there is no treatment options; so doctors must rely on very old antibiotics, which were no longer used because they were unsafe or produced many side effects.

A service such as Apex, which will guide the specialists on the use of drugs and promote diversification of antibiotics, will help to reduce resistance and save thousands of lives each year. Although initially only be available in Colombia, its creators aim to bring this educational program to other countries in the Andean region.

Dates of launch conferences:

· Barranquilla. Monday, September 26 at the Dann Carlton hotel. For 100 physicians

· Pereira. Tuesday, September 27, hotel Pereira. For 100 physicians

· Medellín. Wednesday, September 28, hotel Intercontinental. For 200 physicians

· Bogotá. Thursday, September 29, 60 doctors Marriot hotel

· Bogotá. Friday, September 30, San Juan de Dios Hospital. 250 medical

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The Prince of Asturias Hospital improves the process of sterilization of the instruments

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el Hospital Príncipe de Asturias improves the process of sterilization of instruments

TRAS LA reform makes A year of CENTRAL STERILIZATION

Madrid, 2011-September the use of techniques of asepsis and antisepsis is essential in the health sector. The reform of the Central of sterilization of the Hospital Universitario Prince of Asturias, in Alcalá de Henares, includes strategies that improve patient safety.All the material is previously cleaned through a wash of drag, with lower possible manipulation, for subsequent manual or mechanical cleaning and drying, according to the instruments to be processed.

The Central of sterilization of the University Hospital, Prince of Asturias – with an area of 510 m2 – has processed since its reform in February 2010 a total of 113.079 boxes of instruments for surgical block, consultations, hospitalization and textiles.

In the area of laundering dirty material from the surgical block (which has direct connection to reduce the journey that performs material from the operating room) is harvested and processed dirty instrumentation units and hospital services. This area has a wash tunnel, a washing machine termodesinfectadora machine guns of compressed air and water pressure, ultrasonic, two batteries of different sizes for drag and manual washing washing and trays of different sizes to prepare material for washing and disinfection, among other teams.

Preparation of materials according to their level of asepsis

In the area of preparation is revised, prepare and/or packaged units and services and surgical material. It has four esterilizadores-autoclaves of steam (two of 676 litres and two 250 liters), two selladoras-fechadoras for packing or packaging loose instrumentation and the apparatus necessary for process instrumentation, including that used for the quality and safety controls.

Steam autoclave destroys all forms of microbial, including spores, and is a method of effective sterilization, safe, quick and economic. At 134 ° C sterilised surgical instruments of heat-resistant stainless steel and textile materials. For other types of instruments (laparoscopias, accessories of respirators of UCI and anesthesia, bandages, cables, engines …) used cycles with temperatures of 132 ° C or 121 ° C. Not all materials have the same tolerance to sterilisation, some deteriorate with steam at high temperatures and require a special thermal process.

In the technical area prepare teams of different techniques (surgical, Parthian, UCI …) and other textile materials (towels, bathrobes, sheets …) for their sterilization account with a selladora-fechadora for packaging material. The sterile material area has conditions of temperature and humidity to ensure that you download and place the material coming out of the autoclave by specialties. The Central of sterilization communicates directly with the surgical block, from which comes most of the material to sterilize, through two circuits, one for dirty instruments and one for the clean.

In the area of ethylene oxide sterilizers it sterilised in an autoclave at low temperature (54 ° C). This gas is very effective to sterilize materials termosensibles that do not support steam sterilization; due to its characteristics, the sterilizers are located in a room with special installation isolated security, independent ventilation, warning alarms controlled in remote and detectors of environmental gas levels.

Quality control

The area of Control oversees the production of the central hospital and the Integral Center for the diagnosis and treatment Francisco Díaz (CIDIT), the Centre of Alcalá de Henares, dependent on hospital specialties. The CDIT has operating rooms that require sterile material and from the central controls the external process of installed there. In any process of sterilization, it is essential to carry out checks to ensure proper sterilization, in other words, the destruction of all microorganisms. Check them before their storage and/or distribution.

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Numbers and letters: the complex functions of the brain

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numbers and letters: the complex functions of the brain

-The second day of the 17TH Congress of the European society for cognitive psychology, celebrated in San Sebastián, will focus today, Friday, in the research on bilingualism, the ability to learn new languages or our ability to remember numbers.

– involving top international scientistsexperts in psycholinguistics – as Manuel Carreiras, Itziar Laka, Nuria Sebastián, or Randi Martin – and mathematical processing, such as Denes Szucs.

Donostia, 2011-September why children are easier to learn new languages? being bilingual facilitates proficiency in more languages? Learn how a new spelling? Why mathematics is them choke to some people? Questions such as these will be part of the Agora in the second day of the 17TH Congress of the society European of the cognitive psychology, ESCoP 2011, which continues today, Friday, their activities in the Palacio Kursaal of Donostia.

The complexity of the language will be one of the main themes of this day care. This area will be dedicated three symposia, three oral sessions and 41 presentations of poster, with particular emphasis on aspects such as multilingualism (with greater focus if possible given that the Congress is held in a bilingual territory), the visual recognition of words or the interiorisation of new grammars.

Manuel Carreiras, an authority in matter and director of the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL), the organizing body of the Congress, participate directly in the debate. In addition, Congress counts on the participation of Itziar Laka, of the University of the Basque country, and Nuria Sebastián, Universidad Pompeu Fabra, two scientific international reference in the field of bilingualism.

The various presentations related to this subject include, for example, an exhibition about the differences between monolingual and bilingual in the brain process of grammatical and semantic understanding, or an explanation of the advantage of the bilingual in cognitive control. Precisely, bilingualism is one of the main lines of research of the BCBL, which focuses, inter alia, on the cognitive consequences of multilingualism.

In addition, one of the Summit of the day will arrive with Randi Martin, of the Rice Universersidad of us intervention. Martin taught a master class entitled “ memory work and language processing: an updated view of multicomponent ”, that will focus on how the understanding of the language depends on the ability to maintain and manipulate information in working memory.

But it will not only speak of language. Researcher Denes Szucs, a cognitive neuroscientist focusing on research of the representation of mathematics in the brain and the detection and resolution of conflicts, will participate in a morning Symposium on processing of numbers. It is also an expert in some dysfunctions related to mathematics, such as dyscalculia, a disability which limits the skills in this area. Elena Salillas, the BCBL, also explain the implementation underway for his studies on dyscalculia in relation to bilingualism, which will begin in a few weeks in Donostia.

During the day, in addition to the above issues, will be human learning, consciousness, memory, emotions, attention, and facial recognition, highlighting the involvement of the brain and the human mind in these cognitive skills.

1000 scientists and 700 presentations

In this way will continue the ESCoP 2011 Congress, with the sponsorship of the Basque Government, the provincial Council of Gipuzkoa, the Ministry of science and innovation and the Spanish society of Experimental Psychology (SEPEX) and the European society for cognitive psychology (ESCoP). The event brings together these days in the Guipuzcoan capital almost a thousand scientists and personalities investigated around the brain. The study of this body key to get to know the human being is made from many different disciplines, so at the Kursaal will meet psychologists, pedagogues, linguists, physicists, mathematicians, computer, physicians or biologists. Very different professional profiles with a common goal: understanding the human brain.

The Congress, which will be witness to the Sunday in 700 scientific presentations, boasts the most outstanding personalities from the world of cognitive psychology, with the participation of, among others, Robert Zatorre of the McGill University of Canada; Dana Small, Yale University, USA; Cathy Price, of the University Colllege of London; Randi Martin, of the Rice University (USA); Antonino Vallesi, of the International School for Advanced Studies (Italy); Itziar Laka, the University of the Basque country; Nuria Sebastián, President of the ESCoP from Universitat Pompeu Fabra or Manuel Carreiras, director of the BCBL.

The organizer of the event, the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL) is an International Centre for interdisciplinary research for the study of cognition, brain and language promoted by the Basque Government to promote science and research in the Basque country. The Centre, which is counted among the BERC (Basque Excellence Research Center), has among its partners Ikerbasque, Innobasque, the provincial Council of Gipuzkoa and the University of the Basque country.

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More than 35% of the over 70 who are hospitalized Spanish show symptoms of malnutrition

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more than 35% of the over 70 who are hospitalized Spanish show symptoms of malnutrition

the 1 of October is celebrated the international day of older people

– the European Union of Geriatric Medicine and Abbott join forces to present the TNT (Total Nutrition Therapy)a new global strategy which aims to improve the nutrition of the geriatricians training.

-The cost of patients hospitalized with malnutrition is 50% higher.

Madrid, September of 2011. Malnutrition is a common, but not health problem as sufficiently recognized, that takes place in communities and health environments around the world. According to the study of PREDyCES ® (prevalence of hospital malnutrition and associated costs in Spain) of the Spanish society of Parenteral Nutrition and Enteral, one of every four patients hospitalised in Spain suffers from malnutrition. Malnutrition is defined as a pathological condition in which reservations of macro and micronutrients from the body are reduced. This state occurs as a result of the loss of nutrients associated with food problems, disorders of digestion or metabolism changes associated with infections. Experts say that malnutrition delayed the restoration of the patient in clinical practice and causes loss of muscle mass and weakening. This loss of muscle mass associated with the age, known as sarcopenia, occurs at a rate of 8% from the age of 40 and 15% per decade since the 1970s.

Advanced age is one of the main factors of risk of malnutrition. Likewise, the PREDyCES study reveals that 37% of Spaniards older than 70 years who are hospitalized showed symptoms of malnutrition. According to the same study, the cost of this type of patient is 50% higher.

“ Many dietary and psychological changes occur during the natural process of ageing ” says the geriatrics and new President of the geriatric medical society of the EU, Dr. Alfonso Cruz Jentoft. “ addition, as people age, the body needs more protein, vitamin C, calcium and other important nutrients for a good general State of health. Cruz-Jentoft notes that older people tend to eat less to age – in particular meat and other foods rich in protein, high – quality and his body processes many nutrients less effectively. As a result many adults of age are malnourished.

However, and despite its prevalence and the negative impact on the patient, malnutrition is an insufficiently recognized status. “ The main problem is the lack of training of professional medical ”, says Dr. Refaat Hegazi, Director Médico de Abbott nutrition. “ as doctor, remember having had only two hours of training in nutrition during the race. That is not enough. ”

TNT of geriatric medicine program gets underway in Spain

with the aim of contributing to the formation of the doctor about malnutrition in older people, Abbott joined the geriatric medical European Union society (EUMGS)to develop the program of medicine geriatric Total Nutrition Therapy (TNT-GM), an innovative training course for physicians aimed to develop their knowledge in nutrition in clinical practice.

“ Maintain good nutritional status is essential for healthy ageing, ” says Professor Jean-Pierre Michel, President of the EUGMS and co-director of the TNT-GM. “ that the reason why we launch the program of medicine geriatric TNT in Spain. On 27 October exhibit at the first group of international specialists from around the world so that they can incorporate clinical nutrition in its practical medical therapy ”

El TNT-GM will be the official program of the EUGMS nutrition education. The educational model of TNT is based on the Advanced Trauma Life Support Course (ATLS) of the American College of surgeons, and unites theory and practice through cases and workshops.

About Abbott Nutrition

Abbott develops and markets for more than 85 years nutritional products science-based and oriented to growth, health and well-being of people of all ages. Internationally recognized brands include Similac ®, milk of made by children; PediaSure ®, complete and balanced nutrition for children; and Ensure ®, complete and balanced nutrition for adults.

The company is leader in clinically tested nutritional products to cover the various dietary needs of people with critical illness or special needs for nutrition, as it is the case of Glucerna ®, brand of shakes for people with diabetes; Prosure ® for cancer patient with unintentional weight loss; and Nepro ® for people with chronic renal failure.

About Abbott

Abbott is a biomedical company dedicated to the discovery, development, manufacture and marketing of pharmaceutical and medical products, including nutritional products and medical devices and Diagnostics. The company employs about 90,000 people worldwide and sells its products in more than 130 countries.

Abbott is certified as the best company to work in the health sector and the second in the overall ranking of sectors as Best Workplaces Spain 2010. Abbott has over 1,500 employees and 61 years of history in our country. The company’s activity is oriented to meet the needs of patients with chronic diseases and high clinical, economic, social and emotional impact. Abbott has a presence in all areas of the Spanish healthcare industry (including r & d and manufacturing at its centres in Madrid, Granada and Alcobendas). Its products cover all phases of the process of the disease (prevention, diagnosis, treatment and healing) and are present at every moment of the life cycle: infant, childhood, adolescence, maturity and old age.

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CEOMA underlines the importance of prevention towards healthy ageing

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CEOMA underlines the importance of prevention towards healthy ageing

on 1 October marks the international day of older people

– in collaboration with the study influenza Group (GEG), reminiscent of older persons vaccinated flu prevents complications that can lead to a worsening of his State of health

– in the field of new technologiesThe project developed CEOMA “ your electronic DNI ” to bring closer them to the elderly and to facilitate them to carry out transactions at any time in a quick, easy and free way.

Madrid, September of 2011. The Spanish Confederation of older organizations (CEOMA) has pointed out, coinciding with the celebration, October 1, of the international day of older people, the importance of prevention in all the actions to be taken, both at individual and institutional levels, to achieve an active and healthy ageing.

In this regard, and before the start of the vaccination campaigns in the various autonomous communities, CEOMA, in collaboration with the study influenza Group (GEG), reminded older people vaccinated flu prevents complications that can lead to a worsening of his State of health and who live with them.

One of the initiatives developed by the GGE is the project called Gripómetro, which aims to inform the population about the importance of the prevention of influenza through vaccination, as well as the evolution of immunization against it.

The Gripómetro made on the occasion of the last vaccination campaign reveals the intention of vaccination grows significantly after age 60 (exceeded 43 per cent) and comes to 65 percent among those over 70 years, but still below world which is a 75% recommend the health authorities.

Once acquired the habit of vaccination stays in time. Eight of every ten people who declared their intention to be vaccinated in the past year’s campaign say do it every year. The reasons why someone vaccine are very diverse, even though the most cited are poor health and fear to spread to the family or be infected.

It also notes that vaccination is also recommended for people who suffer from a chronic disease (diabetes, asthma, obesity, kidney failure, chronic cardiovascular diseases or immunosuppression) and those who live or take care of elderly, chronically ill or infants less than six months, to avoid transmitting the disease to them.

CEOMA and the GEG have spread a Decalogue on flu to facilitate access to information and recommendations on this virus.

DECALOGUE of INFLUENZA and its vaccination

1. Influenza is a highly contagious infection caused by the influenza virus that produces numerous cases each winter.

2. Influenza is a worrisome disease, which can have serious complications that can lead even to death. People who are more likely to suffer these complications are:
-people older
-sick chronic
-pregnant women

3. The prevention of influenza through immunization is the best choice for:
– avoid the disease, that the vaccine induces high levels of protective
– to limit the circulation of the virus in the family, social and environment labor.

4. The health authorities and the scientific societies recognize the effectiveness of influenza vaccination for the prevention of influenza and its complications. The vaccine should be given each year, to improve protection against strains that are going to be more frequent every winter.

5. The vaccination in people older than 60 years is vital to prevent complications that could worsen his condition.

6. The vaccination for anyone with any chronic disease (like diabetes, asthma, obesity, kidney failure, chronic cardiovascular disease, immunosuppression and others) it is also essential to also avoid complications which could aggravate their condition.

7. Vaccination for pregnant women is a priority in vaccination against flu as the pregnant woman is exposed to the flu and its complications. In addition, proved that the vaccine protects not only the pregnant woman but that also protects to the newborn to 6th month. We recommend your vaccination from the 2nd trimester of pregnancy.

8. The vaccination of health workers is a basic objective in the global prevention of influenza, it is very likely that in their daily work to come into contact with the virus and can transmit it easily to your patients

9. Vaccination is also recommended for those people who live or care for elderly, chronically ill or infants younger than 6 months (day care staff) to avoid transmitting the disease to them.

10. Course, influenza vaccination is also recommended for any healthy person that you want to avoid suffering a flu or

more information: http://www.ceoma.org/pdfs/gripe/ceoma_gripe_decalogo.pdf
http://www.gripometro.es/

DNI electronic

on the other hand, the project was developed by CEOMA “ your electronic DNI ”. Www.tudnielectronico.org aims to bring new technology to the elderly, and can perform procedures at any time in a quick, easy and free way.

Is aimed at people over 55 who have electronic ID or wish to obtain it. Those who already have will learn the advantages and its use and who don’t yet have it will help them, in addition, renew it. Rates are also reimbursed so renew ID is free.

YOUR electronic DNI is an initiative of CEOMA, with the collaboration of the Ministry of industry, tourism and trade through the Avanza Plan, which seeks bring new technologies to older persons, with information and activities more personalised, nearby and adapted to the new habits of the largest in the 21st century.

CEOMA

The Spanish Confederation of older organizations (CEOMA) is an organization created non-profit for the defence of the rights of older persons. It represents more than one million members of Base and almost 1,500 associations and covers 40 organizations of elders of the various autonomous communities.

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Surah Al-Rehman – The Ultimate Free Remedy for Incurable Diseases

(By Listening Only- 20 Minutes Only)

Kindly download the Surah “AL-REHMAN” (recited by Qari Abdul Basit without translation) from here.


Treatment Plan

Just Listen to it three times a day (morning, afternoon, evening) for seven consecutive days using following procedure:-


    Before listening:

  • Close your eyes
  • Feel your self in front of ALLAH Almighty/ God
  • Then listen to it with greater concentration and closed eyes

    When the recitation/ AUDIO is finished:

  • Open your eyes and take half glass of water
  • Close your eyes again and say “ALLAH” three times in your heart with deep affection/ love
  • Then drink the water with closed eyes in three sips

Surah Al-Rehman – The Ultimate Free Remedy for Incurable Diseases

(By Listening Only- 20 Minutes Only)

Kindly download the Surah “AL-REHMAN” (recited by Qari Abdul Basit without translation) from here.


Treatment Plan

Just Listen to it three times a day (morning, afternoon, evening) for seven consecutive days using following procedure:-


    Before listening:

  • Close your eyes
  • Feel your self in front of ALLAH Almighty/ God
  • Then listen to it with greater concentration and closed eyes

    When the recitation/ AUDIO is finished:

  • Open your eyes and take half glass of water
  • Close your eyes again and say “ALLAH” three times in your heart with deep affection/ love
  • Then drink the water with closed eyes in three sips