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Rapid and accessible testing was paramount in the management of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our university established KCL TEST: a SARS-CoV-2 asymptomatic testing programme that enabled sensitive and accessible PCR testing of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in saliva. Here, we describe our learnings and provide our blueprint for launching diagnostic laboratories, particularly in low-resource settings. Between December 2020 and July 2022, we performed 158277 PCRs for our staff, students, and their household contacts, free of charge. Our average turnaround time was 16 h and 37 min from user registration to result delivery. KCL TEST combined open-source automation and in-house non-commercial reagents, which allows for rapid implementation and repurposing. Importantly, our data parallel those of the UK Office for National Statistics, though we detected a lower positive rate and virtually no delta wave. Our observations strongly support regular asymptomatic community testing as an important measure for decreasing outbreaks and providing safe working spaces. Universities can therefore provide agile, resilient, and accurate testing that reflects the infection rate and trend of the general population. Our findings call for the early integration of academic institutions in pandemic preparedness, with capabilities to rapidly deploy highly skilled staff, as well as develop, test, and accommodate efficient low-cost pipelines.
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Objetivo: Caracterizar la efectividad y seguridad del empleo bloqueo regional bilateral del ganglio de Meckel versus analgesia habitual "AINE's"+Triptanes, para el manejo de la cefalea post COVID-19 de difícil control en los Centros Hospitalarios, Clínica San Pedro y Caja CORDES, durante el segundo semestre de 2021. Conclusiones: El empleo de bloqueo regional bilateral del ganglio de Meckel en el grupo de intervención, resulto más benefico, validando la asociación de las variables: Menor EVA postratamiento inmediato, EVA de = desde la primera semana y no requerir analgesias de rescate, teniendo una efectividad real del 91 % versus el grupo 2
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la tuberculosis es una de las enfermedades epidemiológicamente más importante entre la patología infecciosa y en general en Bolivia. En niños la forma mas importante es la extrapulmonar. El caso que presentamos trata de una asociación rara de tuebrculosis extrapulmonar involucradando las formas ganglionar y osteoarticular.
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Humanos , Masculino , Adolescente , Tuberculosis Ganglionar/diagnóstico , Tuberculosis Ganglionar/enfermería , Tuberculosis Osteoarticular/diagnóstico , Tuberculosis Osteoarticular/enfermería , Tuberculosis/patologíaRESUMEN
Presentamos un nino de 11 anos de edad con el diagnostico de tenosinovitis tuberculosa, que fue internado en el Hospital de Ninos "Ovidio Aliaga Uria" de la Ciudad de La Paz por presentar uan tumoracion indolora del pie derecho de 3 meses de evolucion. Los estudios bacteriologicos anatomopatologicos confirmaron el idagnostico de tuberculosis. El paciente respondio adecuadamente al tratamiento quirurgico y medico especifico. Se presenta el caso por ser una forma excepcional y rara de tuberculosis.
