Carlos Slim Foundation offered the free webinar: Effective measures to prevent intubation in COVID-19 patients; experience in Mexico.
In collaboration with the Government of Mexico City, the National Academy of Medicine and the Faculty of Medicine of UNAM, the Carlos Slim Foundation offered this webinar with panelists of different specialties to tell Mexico's experience with COVID-19 in recent months.
The session was moderated by Dr. David Kershenobich Stalnikowitz director of the Salvador Zubirán National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition (INCMNSZ), who mentioned that both INCMNSZ and the Carlos Slim Foundation have been part of the Patient Safety Movement initiative since 2016.
The Webinar had the experience of Dr. Roberto Tapia Conyer, CEO of the Foundation, who together with Dr. Eduardo González Pier, offered the presentation "Epidemiological Panorama of the pandemic. Charges cost and consequences of COVID in Mexico". This addressed topics on scientific knowledge that has been oriented around the SARS-CoV-2 virus in recent months.
Later it was the turn of Dr. Héctor Herrera Bello with his theme "Pulmonary Phenotypes Indication of high flow nasal tips to prevent intubation". He told of his experience in the COVID-19 Temporary Unit installed at the Centro CitiBanamex a few months ago.
Preventive management in patients with comorbidities by Dr. Carlos Aguilar Salinas, who recognized the serious repercussions that has brought a combination of chronic diseases in Mexico in the last 40 years in the face of the COVID-19 epidemic. Subsequently, the panel of "Dexamethasone Vs. Tocilizumab when, how and to whom?" continued, presented by Dr. Rafael Valdez Vázquez, who serves as director of the COVID-19 Temporary Unit. In which he presented the preliminary results in the use of dexamethasone (steroids) and tocilizumab in COVID patients in the temporal unit mentioned above.
At the end, Dr. José Sifuentes Osornio presented his topic "Prevention of Bacterial Infections" where he referred to bacterial infections in COVID patients in INCMNSZ and their treatment.
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