Endocarditis infecciosa de válvula pulmonar nativa.

La endocarditis infecciosa en válvulas derechas es predominantemente en la válvula tricuspídea, mientras la válvula pulmonar es excepcionalmente afectada (menos de 1,5%), por lo que son pocos los casos reportados en la l...

Effectiveness of glycerinated alcohol use for decontaminating hands in a population without access to safe water post earthquake in Pisco, Peru.

We assessed the effectiveness of the use of glycerinated alcohol for disinfecting the hands of persons fixing foods in communal kitchens in refugee and neighborhood camps with no access to potable water during the first...

Traffic accidents in Ica region, 2000-2004

Recomendaciones para el control de la transmisión de la tuberculosis en hospitales.

La transmisión nosocomial de la tuberculosis (TB) es un problema vigente en el Perú, tanto por el riesgo de enfermar que corre el personal de salud y pacientes, como por la presencia cada vez más frecuente de cepas resis...

Educating future health professionals: a challenge for health and human rights in Latin America.

In practice, health has largely remained the domain of medical and health professionals who have examined health and ill-health in biomedical terms of the presence or absence of disease. Such dichotomization divorces hea...