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How the most advanced treatments to save lives of patients Guillermo Farinas


2010
07.04

most advanced treatments to save lives of patients Guillermo FarinasScience, humanism, professionalism and the most advanced and expensive treatments have been used in the fight to save the life of Guillermo Farinas patient. Science, because you have applied the latest advances to meet you; humanism and professionalism, because they get the services of renowned specialists who fly the maxim that fight for human health comes first and the most advanced and expensive treatments, because the Cuban state has spared no efforts to ensure this person the next-generation drugs needed, which are used in the most renowned medical centers, many of which are acquired abroad.

Farinas were admitted on March 11 in the intensive care unit of Hospital Universitario Renaldo Malian Castro, in the city of Santa Clara. For more than 120 days initiated a voluntary fast which puts their lives at risk today.

Interested in your current state of health, we turn to institutional care located in the central Cuban province and talked with Dr. Armando Caballero, head of Intensive Care Services at the hospital.

The first question that we made to Second Degree Specialist and founder of the health care unit is to explain to us from your experience how it is possible that this person, after four months in fasting still survive.

“It’s the question being asked around the world,” she says, actually a person without eating through some cannot survive that long, but this is not the case of Farinas.

Dr. Caballero said, “This patient voluntarily refuses to eat by mouth. It takes 125 days on this because he spent two weeks at home during which he said that did not ingest food before being admitted to our service, which carries 110 days. We receive a certain physical deterioration and for that reason, he was admitted. He accepted, was aware that we apply nutrients, intravenous feeding, or veins.

The patient is receiving amino acids that form proteins throughout the body needs, also provides lipids, vitamins and minerals, “anything that requires a balanced diet for any human being,” said the physician and he said: “To this end Farina arrived at our room with 63 kilos of weight and is currently ranging between 67 and 69 kilos. Has increased their body weight during admission and was precisely because he is receiving potential nutrition. “

How to understand the health and doctor-patient relationship


2010
06.22

understand the health and doctor-patient relationshipThe rise of social networking is changing the way we understand health and doctor-patient relationship. Internet has brought about the democratization of knowledge and has generated a greater number of health information sources, which are often groups of patients, not professionals, who are taking the initiative. A few years ago, 85% of people used as main source of information to the doctor compared with 87%, according to a recent study by the Spanish Society of Family and Community Medicine (seemly), currently use the Internet when you want to know more about disease.

Sanities has made every effort to use social networks as an opportunity to interact with customers, answer their questions quickly and encourage users to talk to one another about their experience with chronic illness and the treatments and activities most have helped them improve their quality of life.

Sanities Responds 2.0 gives the company chronic patients the opportunity to interact among themselves and with nurses caring personalized consulting service responds Sanities Health, which since its launch last October has handled about 53,000 calls.

Sanities All customers interested in improving their health and learn more about diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, lung disease and chronic pain may inquire directly with the health advisors, find information and advice on specific conditions, receive a personalized and communicate with other members of the community.

How can environmental sanitation by the Mayor of San Roué


2010
05.27

environmental sanitationThe mayor of San Roué, Fernando Palma, held yesterday, Wednesday, a meeting with the Director of Health Center of town, Antonio Gonzalez Pinto, who also directs the sanitary units located in different neighborhoods of the municipality. Also attended by Deputy Mayor of Education, Ramon Ramirez, the council member of Social Affairs, Rosa Macias, and Evades manager, Luis Patricio.

For the health official, the main problem of housing for their dependents residing in the damage caused by heavy rains and storms this past winter. Especially bad is the health module of San Enrique, who has many wetlands and other deficiencies.

The mayor promised to launch an emergency plan to address this problem, and offered all the means at its disposal to improve the facilities can be expected to complete the construction of the building that will house the new module of San Enrique. Palma said that at present are carrying out several actions to improve the health module of the station.

The head municipal noted all actions necessary to address the weaknesses but warned, “We have to wait for buildings to dry completely to intervene and improve the units.”

The mayor invited the heads of the Provincial Health Delegation of the Junta de Andalusia to visit the health modules of the San Roué neighborhoods to check the disastrous situation in which there is the furniture and the allocations that fall within its skills. Due to these poor conditions, the mayor requested an effort to Andalusia for renewal this material; it would lead to a substantial improvement in service to patients and users.
The mayor noted that the City is responsible for the maintenance of the buildings where the various modules located health of the locality, besides making available to municipal officials to serve the public, but not within the jurisdiction of local government.

“Since the City Council makes this effort, the mayor said,” I hope that from the Regional Administration is to improve and renew the material for his work with professionals to develop appropriate means. This will provide for improved quality of service to users of the modules. “

How decisions about the health minister of public health services


2010
05.27

health minister of public health servicesCoinciding with the decision of the Ministry of Health (Ministry) to request an investigation of the Comptroller of the high deficits of public health services, specialized Commission chaired by Senator Guido Girard, analyze Monday 31 May, between 15 and 17 hours, increasing the liabilities of the sector, whose debt amounts to 70 billion pesos.

Senators said they Francisco Chanute and Mariano Ruiz-Esquire, members of the panel who agreed that there is “a serious and complex problem of resource management.

Note that the MINSAL asked the watchdog to investigate the contracts and increases in grade officers scales for workers in the health system, which took place between February and March of this year, which would have generated an explosion of 16 billion liabilities pesos, in recent months.

Chanute Senator expressed concern that the situation facing the public health sector, particularly the National Health Fund (FONASA) demonstrates the need “is to create a detailed study of this large debt to see if there are responsibilities, administrative, civil or criminal.”

In this regard appreciated the first steps taken by the authorities in order to avoid further increasing the debt. Among them, there is continuous monitoring of the health services most heavily indebted and the restructuring of the division of budgets FONASA.

He recalled that at present there are 29 health services throughout the country so that the authority is seeking to centralize the management of the main venues.

Why relax the brain causes neurons active in the synchronization memory


2010
05.18

synchronization memoryWhen a person is relaxed and memory-related neurons in the brain are activated in synchronization with certain brain waves, is likely to form strong and lasting memories, scientists said on Wednesday.

U.S. researchers said their findings could help in developing new therapies for people with learning disabilities and some types of dementia.

“This study establishes a direct link between events in the brain circuitry (…) and its effects on human behavior,” said Eli Rutishauser, the California Institute of Technology, who worked on the study.

The timing of the brain is influenced by “theta waves” which are associated with relaxation, reverie, and dizziness with learning and memory formation, the scientists said the study published in the journal Nature.

Although scientists know that the best minds are relaxed new information, the study pointed to a new mechanism through which neurons of relaxation work together to improve memory.

“Our research shows that when memory-related neurons are well coordinated with theta waves during the learning process, the memories are strong,” said Adam Mandela, a neurosurgeon at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

The team studied eight volunteers, who exhibited 100 pictures of a series of objects for a second. From 15 to 30 minutes later, they showed another 100 photos – 50 new and 50 of the first round – and asked them to recall what they had seen and were assured that their responses.

Using electrodes electroencephalogram (EEG, for its acronym in English), the team recorded the neuronal activity and electrical signals “background” regions of the brain where memory is formed.

They found that recognition was higher when the learning occurred while the neurons were activated while theta waves.

Most studies are theta waves in rats and only a few are performed in humans, in part because the EEG electrodes should be placed directly on the brain surface for accurate measurements.

Why therapy with horses can lower self-esteem


2010
05.18

 therapy with horsesTherapy with horses can develop things like self-esteem, assertiveness, safety, self-respect, self-concept and ability to develop healthy relationships. The Association Vincula2 equestrian therapy work with different groups such as disabled, women in vulnerable conditions, business schools, to enhance aspects of leadership and teamwork, and adolescents at risk.

The horse is an animal suitable to help people to interact naturally with the world around them, because, by virtue of his prey, are animals of flight, giving them specially developed an instinct to perceive events happening around them through the signals emitted by the nonverbal communication, body language and intonation of words.

The secretary and psychologist Vincula2 Association, Veronica Racal, explained that horses are animals that “can not be fooled, they are always careful around him, which requires a consistency between what you think and what is done you can not pretend. This is useful for working with assertion, since it is necessary to act firmly and consistently, “says Racal. From Vincula2 explain that what they do is “applied ethnology of these animals, their herding behavior when they are released,” the relacióncon humans., Exercises and experiences that you work with self-esteem, control and neglect situations, using appropriate body language and nonverbal communication.

The association is composed of a team of physiotherapists, psychologists, therapists and volunteers equestrian. In Vincula2 working with horses both from the ground, in the execution of orders, and from the saddle, so with that exercise issues of abandonment or delegation of responsibilities. Maximal Equestrian Center has about 55 horses, but the association uses only twelve copies specially trained for therapy. Meet qualities like having the appropriate morphology to be able to support two people dragging a cadence and right step, in addition to being gentle, but active.

Why Treat the feet can relieve bone pain in the neck


2010
05.18

 relieve bone pain in the neckTreating a foot bone to relieve pain in the neck. Sounds like magic but it is real, and therein lays the success of osteopathy: to consider the human body as a whole. By detecting an upset in a person seeking alteration of the agency that has originated and that most of the time did not match the painful area. It distinguishes between the cause (the change) and consequence (the pain).

Then, through a process of manual therapy, derived from physiotherapy, osteopathy rehabilitation to the patient. All through the manipulation of bones and muscles and joints treating less accessible tissues.

His social demand grows increasingly, the number of hits is 10 times greater now than in 2002, according to the Register of Osteótapatas of Spain (ROE) – but it is an activity not recognized by the Law on Management of Health Professions (LOPS). Land that it collects, for exempla, her sister minor: the fisioteapia. The absence of regulation has caused a clash between different schools offering osteopathic therapies; an open war depends on the Directors to close.

How do relaxation techniques correctly


2010
05.18

relaxation techniques correctlyThe technique presented here should be taken as a guide and not rigidly, as would achieve the opposite effect from that intended, as opposed to any compulsion is the relaxation, expansion and relaxation.

First position to adopt is Seasonal or corpse poses on the floor with a thin mattress or blanket in the middle. It consists placed supine, or what is the same with his back against the floor, legs slightly apart, with toes to the sides, arms are relaxed at the sides of the body a few inches separate the same with the palms up.

You start doing some slow, deep breaths without actually forcing the lungs. Each exhalation should adopt the attitude of “release”, each exhalation is attempting to loosen, release, relax, emotional and physical stress. This attitude is important because it allows the state to go deeper general relaxation and mental relaxation.
Another important aspect to consider is that there must be at all times conscious attention to the whole process of relaxation, as well as mental states. This allows the incorporation into the consciousness of the energy is released gradually, producing a network expansion and its possibilities.

Then the body begins to go progressively focusing awareness in different parts of the body, loosening the area with your breath, and the correct mental attitude of “release.” We begin with the feet, legs, hips, abdomen, chest, hands, arms, neck and finally his head. Take the number of breaths needed for each body part. If they feel, can assist the process with mental autosuggestions saying to him “relax” or “my leg is relaxed, and so on.