Vol. 24 No. 1 (2025): Revista Médica Científica CAMbios | Medical-Scientific Journal CAMbios HECAM

Editorial

Freud Caceres-Aucatoma

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Editorial Ecuador Health System

Es necesario que se inicie un real proceso de análisis y evaluación del sistema de salud, en base a indicadores y en términos de impacto de la política pública, con la finalidad de identificar en el modelo (MAIS-RIPS) planteado por el Ministerio de Salud las fortalezas para profundizar y...

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Hugo Fernando Romo-Castillo

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Original Studies: Observational Studies

Isaías Siddharta Nuñez-Cifuentes, Byron Fabian Nuñez-Freile

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Guayas and Guayaquil: the epicenter of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic in SouthAmerica. An analysis of excess mortality

INTRODUCTION: Between March and April 2020, the city of Guayaquil was a world epicenter because of the COVID-19 pandemic, this produced an excess of deaths and saturation of health services that the country had never faced before. OBJECTIVES: To determine excess mortality associated with...

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Orquera-Carranco, Andrés, Mendieta-Carrión, Leonardo Fabián, Velasco-Maldonado, Paola, Carranza-Jara, Jhony, Muñoz-Velástegui, Gabriela, Arévalo-Anchundia, Nelly Melissa

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Survival analysis of patients with de novo non-promyelocytic acute myeloid leukemia in in a third-level hospital in Ecuador

INTRODUCTION: There are a significant number of reports in Latin America, but there are no survival data on acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in Ecuador, so it is important to report the first survival analysis in patients with de novo AML in a reference center in the country. OBJECTIVES: To...

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Orquera-Carranco, Andrés, Mendieta-Carrión, Leonardo, Ayala-García, Luis, Velasco-Maldonado, Paola

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Survival analysis of older patients with non-M3 acute myeloid leukemia at a tertiary care hospital in Ecuador.

INTRODUCTION: Outcomes in older adult patients with non-M3 acute myeloid leukemia (AML) have generally been poor. This study presents the first survival analysis of elderly patients with non-M3 AML at a tertiary care hospital in Quito, Ecuador. OBJECTIVES: To describe the overall survival...

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Carla Nineth Arellano-Arboleda, Luis Miguel Soria-Freire

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Assessment of the pediatric assessment triangle (TEP), emergency area, Carlos Andrade Marín Hospital (HECAM), Quito Ecuador

INTRODUCTION: Timely and adequate triage in pediatric patients is a challenge faced by health professionals. The pediatric population is vulnerable to critical conditions that lead to collapse when not appropriately intervened. OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the pediatric triangle as a predictor...

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Andrea Victoria Sarzosa-Salazar, Freud Cáceres-Aucatoma

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Lymphatic vascular malformations in pediatrics: Retrospective evaluation oftreatment in pediatric patients between 0 to 18 years treated at Carlos AndradeMarín Specialty Hospital from January 2015 to December 2023

INTRODUCTION: Lymphatic vascular malformations (LM), also known as “Lymphangiomas”, are congenital anomalies of unknown etiology. The spectrum of injury varies from simple to complex, affecting continuous sites with degrees of obstruction or compression of vital organs. OBJECTIVES: To...

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Rubén Andrés Pardo-Espejo , Miriam Elizabeth Barreno-Ramos

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Central venous saturation and venous serum lactate gap as predictors of failureto release mechanical ventilation in patients who overcame septic shock at the Carlos Andrade Marin Hospital

INTRODUCTION: Mechanical ventilation release protocols do not consider cardiac performance during a very challenging test such as the spontaneous ventilation test. OBJECTIVES: To determine whether the variation of central venous oxygen saturation and venous serum lactate can predict failure of...

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Original Studies: Review Studies

Gabriela Estefanía Calero-Bayas

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Citizen Perceptions on Public Health Communication Management in the fightagainst chronic childhood malnutrition in Ecuador

INTRODUCTION: Chronic childhood malnutrition affected 27% of children under 5 years of age in Ecuador, posing a significant obstacle to the country’s well-being and social and economic development. Public health communication proved essential in addressing this problem, enabling education,...

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Case Report

Miguel Jacob Ochoa-Andrade, Wilian López-Franco, Margarita Monserrate Santana-López, Carlos Alejandro Fajardo-Vargas

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Importance of the frequency of clinical manifestations such as hyperreflexia in Guillain Barré Syndrome. An outlier reportase report.

INTRODUCTION. Guillain-Barré syndrome is an acute inflammatory autoimmune neuritis whose most common type is acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, with a mean age of onset of 40 years, with a predominance in men of all ages, races and nationalities. It is characterized by...

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