Editorial de la revista número 2 del año 2019

Abstract

Emma Mariana Abalos and Marcos Reque, from Hospital General de Agudos José María Ramos Mejía, describe the interesting experience of the clinical case conference as a didactic resource with students of the professional nursing program.

Carlos Ruggeri (Otolaryngology) responds to Julia Udaquiola (Pediatric Surgery) and Ricardo García Mónaco (Diagnostic Imaging) to the letter sent to the Editor regarding the article entitled “Transoral surgery in laryngeal and hypopharyngeal hemangiomas in adults”.

Effective communication is a fundamental element for functioning as a team. Romina Daniela Aguirre, from the Bachelor’s Degree in Surgical Instrumentation, investigated tools for effective communication among surgical instrument technicians.

Knowing the scope of a vaccination plan makes it possible to develop strategies to achieve the 95% coverage goal. The Epidemiology Unit and the Hospital Infection Committee of the Department of Internal Medicine analyzed the coverage of the 2016–2018 influenza vaccination campaigns among healthcare personnel.

Formative feedback provides students with information about their performance, strengths, and weaknesses. Ana Clara Torre and María Laura Eder, from the Academic Department of Medicine of the Instituto Universitario del Hospital Italiano, evaluate how it is carried out and its impact on clinical teaching.

The Instituto Universitario del Hospital Italiano proposes a curricular change for the medical program, replacing the traditional subject-based teaching system with Problem-Based Learning, in which knowledge and skills are acquired in a spiral manner with increasing levels of complexity. The Professional Practice Laboratory is the educational space where maximum integration occurs. María Julia Bagdonavicius analyzes this learning system.

Carla Yasmín Abuawad, Luis Alejandro Boccalatte, and Juan José Larrañaga, from the Department of Head and Neck Surgery, describe imaging findings corresponding to a right papillary thyroid carcinoma with lymph node metastases in the left lateral cervical compartment.

In the section Hospital Italiano in Medline, Gabriela Palis and Eduardo Pedro Mayorga, from the Department of Ophthalmology, together with foreign authors who are members of the Education Committee of the International Council of Ophthalmology, comment on the development of a 360-degree assessment tool, with international application and specific to ophthalmology, based on the opinions of peers, non-physician coworkers, patients, and faculty, to evaluate and provide feedback to residents on their skills and professionalism.

Acute mountain sickness includes cerebral and pulmonary symptoms that occur during ascent above 2500 meters above sea level. Paula Zambrano-Achig, Camila Montesinos-Guevara, and Daniel Simancas-Racines, from the Center for Public Health Research and Clinical Epidemiology of Universidad UTE in Quito, and Juan Víctor Ariel Franco, from the Argentine Cochrane Center of the Instituto Universitario Hospital Italiano, conducted a Cochrane review to determine the effects of pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions on acute mountain sickness.

Deep brain stimulation, frequently used for the treatment of refractory Parkinson’s disease, is a neurosurgical treatment consisting of the stereotactic implantation of electrodes in deep brain structures. Claudio Yampolsky, José Faccioli, Cecilia De Simone, and Denise Gaillardou, from the Departments of Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, review the indication for deep brain stimulation in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder resistant to pharmacological treatment and cognitive-behavioral therapy.