For 4 days the Quillota Petorca Biprovincial Hospital became a national and international reference in Intensive Medicine by bringing together more than 200 clinical professionals from the area in its now traditional Intensive Medicine Conferences, which in this fifth version took place between April 24 and 27 at the same healthcare facility.
This type of academic and training events positions the base campus of the provinces of Quillota and Petorca as the spearhead in the matter at a national level, transforming these Conferences into an activity expected by specialists in the area and clinical professionals related to the practice of Intensive Medicine.
This results in an effective positioning of the Biprovincial Hospital, which was highlighted by the Director of the institution, Haroldo Faúndez Romero, who expressed the importance of these events for the healthcare facility. “Our Hospital is increasingly opening new services, new benefits, new equipment, with new infrastructure, all of this for the benefit of our users in the provinces of Quillota and Petorca. However, this must be accompanied by people’s learning processes, by knowledge management, to improve; and these Conferences are part of that vision of advancing, in addition to infrastructure, in technology, but also in training of our teams”, pointed out the Director.
Theoretical and practical days
It should be noted that the event, organized by the Critical Patient Unit of the Biprovincial Hospital in conjunction with the Lucas Sierra Foundation, began last Wednesday the 24th with practical workshops for professionals in areas such as airways, fiberoptic bronchoscopy, intensive care echocardiography. , vascular access, transpulmonary pressure and renal replacement therapy.
Meanwhile, the official opening of these Fifth Conferences on Intensive Medicine took place on the morning of Thursday the 25th, with the participation of the first of the nearly 40 speakers of this activity that is sponsored by the Chilean Society of Intensive Medicine.
In this regard, Dr. Roberto Contreras Aguilera, Head of the Critical Patient Unit of the Quillota Petorca Biprovincial Hospital and General Director of these Intensive Medicine Conferences, pointed out. “We are very happy for this fifth version; Since 2017, we have set ourselves the goal of raising the level of academia and scientific development in clinical work. We are convinced that this means that we will have better trained, updated professionals, and we will provide high-quality technical and human care. And this is an example, these Fifth Conferences have been a success, and we are very happy to be able to offer this to the community, not only of the provinces of Quillota Petorca, but of the entire Fifth Region, in terms of Intensive Care.said the intensive care doctor.
Thus, the Schok and Hemodynamic Monitoring, Sepsis and Perfusion and Intensive Neuro modules continued during the day on Thursday, while on Friday it was the turn of the Emergency and Resuscitation, Ventilatory Therapy, Imaging and Intensive Nephrology and Extra Corporeal Therapies modules; ending on Saturday the 27th with the Cardiovascular and Interventional Critical Care and Multidisciplinary Rehabilitation modules.
Event with prominent international speakers
As the years go by, this event has brought together prominent speakers top-level international institutions, located at the forefront of clinical knowledge in Intensive Care Medicine worldwide. Just as the year 2023 was attended by the outstanding physician Dr. Jan Bakker, this 2024 these Conferences were once again highlighted by renowned professionals in the area of Intensive Care Medicine such as Dr. Arnaldo Dubín, Dr. Vanina Kanoore Edul, the nurse María Isabel Velasco and Dr. Emilio Rey.
Precisely, one of these international rapporteurs, the Dr. Arnaldo Dubín, professor of Intensive Care at the University of La Plata and intensive care physician at the Otamendi Sanatorium in Buenos Aires, Argentina, He highlighted the opportunity to share experiences, knowledge and advances in Intensive Medicine, which, ultimately, ends up benefiting the critical medicine patient. “The truth is that it is exciting for us, we come with a lot of motivation, we know that in Chile there is enormous interest in being able to discuss these issues. In short, feeding our way with activities that gratify us is important for the growth of the specialty and for patients to be better served.”
In this way, as a consolidated event at the national, and even international, level, the success achieved by this fifth version of the Intensive Medicine Conference of the Quillota Petorca Biprovincial Hospital positions this academic and training instance as a point of reference, but, in addition , results in greater knowledge for the professionals and physicians of the Critical Patient Unit of the same healthcare facility, resulting in a benefit for patients in both provinces.
