Irapuato, Gto. October 23, 2017.- For the nursing personnel to update in taking care of patients with respiratory diseases, the Division of Life Sciences (DICIVA) of the University of Guanajuato (UG), gave the first course in Respiratory Therapy with a theoretical-practical 120hr duration.
From May to September, sixteen people from the cities of Celaya, Guanajuato, Irapuato and the state of Michoacán, concluded the theoretical modules and attended the practices in the General Hospital of Irapuato.
Martha Hilda Gutiérrez Olivier, coordinator of the course, informed that the first blocks had the participation of intensive specialist medics to talk about the physiopathology of the respiratory diseases.
Then, Jairo Uriel Contreras López, respiratory therapist who graduated from the Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias in Mexico City, showed the aspects of the respiratory therapy in mechanical ventilation, aerosol therapy, oxygen therapy and pulmonary rehabilitation.
For the health personnel in the emergency room, it is important for them to know the medication and the correct forms to administer them to the conscious patient and the ventilated patient, how to proceed in mechanical ventilation, the basic programming of the conventional methods, the assisted methods and the spontaneous.
At the facilities of the General Hospital of Irapuato, the participants practiced the process of measuring the mechanics of the intubated patient and the process to extubate the patient, related with pulmonary rehabilitation.
At the hospital centers, the most frequent respiratory diseases presented in the patients are asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, bronchitis, emphysema, pneumonia, allergies and lung cancer.
To whom completed the course, they received the certificates from the hands of the university authorities, among them: DICIVA's Academic Secretary, Dr. Gerardo Ruvalcaba Palacios and the Director of the Department of Nursing and Midwifery, Dr. Ma. Gloria Vega Argote, who agreed on the importance to update and the continuous education for the health personnel.
