Purpose: In the West, diverticular disease is located mainly in the left colon. However, it can also present in the right colon, with an incidence of 1% to 2% in Caucasians. The purpose of this study was to describe our experience in right-sided acute diverticulitis (RD).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn Argentina, the second wave of COVID-19, which started in May, clearly differentiates us from the rest of the Latin American countries, whose current growth may be the announcement of the expected autumn-winter expansion. There is a lot of uncertainty about how the pandemic will evolve, which contrasts with the expectations that had been generated in society after the end of the confinement, both of the control of the health system and access to effective vaccines. Thus, a group of surgeons in training raised a series of concerns concerning the critical situation that we are facing.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSocial distancing to curb the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted medical and surgical education. This health crisis led us to raise doubts, controversies, and dilemmas in health care in general, and in surgery in particular, understanding that residents are possibly as or more vulnerable than all health professionals. During the 32nd International Congress of General Surgery in Cordoba, which was the first general surgery congress held in Argentina during 2021; The Association of Residents and Concurrent Surgery of Cordoba presented its official report about the current challenges faced by residents during their surgical training.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSocial distancing to curb the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted medical and surgical education. This health crisis led us to raise doubts, controversies, and dilemmas in health care in general, and in surgery in particular, understanding that residents are possibly as or more vulnerable than all health professionals. During the 32nd International Congress of General Surgery in Cordoba, which was the first general surgery congress held in Argentina during 2021; The Association of Residents and Concurrent Surgery of Córdoba presented its official report about the current challenges faced by residents during their surgical training.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: COVID - 19 emerged as a global pandemic in 2020 and affected the teaching methods at all levels. Surgical education has also been significantly affected by this pandemic, but the effect remains unknown. We developed a survey in order to obtain more information on how this pandemic affected the training and education of surgical residency programs.
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