The Fifth Conference on Intensive Medicine took place between April 24 and 27 with a large participation of regional, national and foreign speakers.
For four 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 in 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 the national level, transforming aeThese Conferences are 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 the training of our teams,” said the director.
It should be noted that the event, organized by the Critical Patient Unit of the Biprovincial Hospital in conjunction with the Lucas Sierra Foundationbegan last Wednesday, April 24, with practical workshops for professionals in areas such as airways, echocardiography, vascular access, transpulmonary pressure and renal replacement therapy.
In this regard, the Dr. Roberto Contreras Aguilera, head of the Critical Patient Unit of the Quillota Petorca Biprovincial Hospital and general director of these Intensive Medicine Conferences, he explained that the objective was defined in 2017 when they agreed to raise “the level of academia and scientific development in clinical work, we are convinced that this means that we are going to 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.” explained the intensive care doctor.
In this way, as a consolidated event at a 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 body as a point of reference, but, in addition, It results in greater knowledge for the professionals and physicians of the Critical Patient Unit of the same healthcare facility, which becomes a benefit for patients in both provinces.
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