Today concludes the VIII International Congress of Emergencies, Emergencies and Intensive Care (Urgrav-2019). The II National Workshop for Training and Research will be held in vital support in Emergencies and Disasters.

Before the more than 250 specialists from 15 countries, Cuba will present experiences in training and research in this field, the Doctor of Sciences Pedro Luis Véliz Martínez, president of the organizing committee of the meeting announced to the ACN. the Convention Center of Havana. Véliz Martínez, president of the Cuban Society of Intensive and Emergency Medicine will speak on the subject, as well as have the specialized conference called Skills in life support. What and how to achieve it ?.

Meanwhile, a group of experts from Cuba, Mexico, Guatemala and Argentina are part of the panel on the teachings for life support training from the Latin American international context.

The largest of the Antilles will also show recent experiences in the teaching of life support in the country, and the Doctor of Science
Víctor René Navarro Machado will give a specialized conference on the lines of research in cardiopulmocerebral resuscitation.

An important international scientific event is the Urgrav Congress, the main national event of the specialty where we all contribute to disseminate the results and experiences in order to save, with a better quality of life, a greater number of patients in emergencies, serious and critical, the president of the organizing committee abounded.

In the quote, Cuba has exposed the experiences in the attention to the serious patient in the intensive municipal areas; the prognostic and severity scales in the critical patient, specialized care in coronary care units and stroke rooms,
among other topics.

The results of a multicenter project to reduce nosocomial infection in intensive care units, both children and adults, were also presented, explained Véliz Martínez.

During the closure, the best research on intensive care in adults and pediatrics will receive the Sergio Rabel and Enrique Guzmán Awards, who were the initiators of that medical discipline in Cuba, respectively.

Source: ACN

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