The acute abdomen is responsible for 10% of the visits to the emergency department, with 50% admitted; of which 30% to 40% are surgically operated; and from 5% to 10% of these interventions are by perforation of viscera ...

La investigación se desarrolló con la finalidad de determinar la conducta a seguir para el abordaje clínico y quirúrgico de la Otitis Media Aguda (OMA) en pacientes pediátricos, en razón de que según estadísticas publicadas ...

We define the febrile syndrome as the set of symptoms and signs whose main sign is hyperthermia (greater than 38), it is a response of the organism to agents of an infectious nature as non-infectious in a tropical context. ...

Introduction: Organophosphate poisoning is a very common public health problem in the country and can produce structural or functional lesions in organs or systems and can even cause death, which has a great social impact ...

Introduction: The snake bite affects 5 million people per year, of which 2.7 million suffer poisoning, it causes 138 thousand deaths and produces sequelae in 400 thousand survivors. In Ecuador during the last 5 years there ...

Electronic Fetal Intrapartum Monitoring was included within the obstetric care protocols, with the aim of evaluating the health of the fetus during labor, by evaluating the fetal heart rate, uterine contraction, acquisition, ...

Chronic osteomyelitis is an infection characterized by the presence of necrotic bone tissue and persistent inflammation, posing a significant clinical and therapeutic challenge in current medical practice. Despite advances ...

Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is a relatively common malignant skin tumor in humans. It is considered a locally invasive, aggressive and destructive cancer but with little risk of metastasis. The worldwide incidence of BCC ...