Publications by authors named "Sara Patino-Franco"
Endoscopic procedures, currently, are characterized by being minimally invasive diagnostic and therapeutic methods, which allow the management of a wide number of pathologies and in the hands of a good operator, present few complications. Both traumatic and spontaneous splenic rupture is a rare entity, mainly associated with abdominal trauma or splenomegaly due to hematological diseases, respectively. Splenic rupture secondary to endoscopic studies is a complication with a mortality close to 5%, of which only 100 cases have been reported to date, none of them in Colombia.
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- The study investigates how often patients are transferred between healthcare facilities for surgical and obstetric conditions in an urban low- and middle-income context, specifically in Cali, Colombia.
- It analyzes public interfacility transfer records over a 13-month period, finding that a significant portion of transfers (70.2%) were between facilities, with almost half related to surgical and obstetric cases.
- The results indicate a higher percentage of transfers for these conditions from public hospitals compared to private ones, highlighting issues related to access to surgical care in urban low- and middle-income settings.