Publications by authors named "Gabriela A Guillen-Hernandez"
Background: Shotgun injuries (SGI) are infrequent, but due its special ballistics, are related to adverse outcomes.
Objective: To analyze operative and administrative variables, critical for the institution.
Method: Demographics and health-care related variables from SGI patients admitted to Military Central Hospital (Mexico City) between July 2006 and August 2019, were retrospectively studied.
Trauma to peripheral vascular organ is a very frequent condition during military conflicts. Fortunately, comprehensive understanding of local and systemic pathophysiology, in addition to the development of innovative surgical techniques and technological advances, have improved the outcome regarding to survival and anatomic and functional conservation of the limbs. In this manuscript, we perform an historical and state of the art review related to the approach of the peripheral vascular trauma, on the basis of an heroical episode from the Mexico City's Campaign, during North American invasion 1846-1848: the defense of Chapultepec's Castle by cadet Agustin Melgar.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Nowadays, there are few differences between civilian and military trauma, requiring to surgeons serving at urban hospitals, the acquisition of competences leading to implementation of management strategies for these cases. For their training, instructional designs related to surgical education, incorporating multimedia resources and favoring the multichannel teaching-learning process, have demonstrated remarkable benefits on competences acquisition by participants.
Method: Using an instructional design sustained on problems based learning and problems resolution, a digital video and its associated flat text were reviewed by the General Surgery residents, with the further application of a wide-answer problem-resolution questionnaire.