[AN EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE BASED ON CLICKERS]. / Una experiencia educativa basada en los clickers.

Active learning or self-learning increases the student's participation and commitment to his studies; these conditions are necessary to improve academic performance. An intervention has been designed based on the experience in the use of clickers in other universities, but without the actual technology. This work has been performed in the School of Nursing affiliated to the University of Malaga (UMA) on students enrolled in their second year of Degree in Adult Nursing Course I. Three sessions of multiple-choice questions were scheduled on the subject "distance learning" in which master classes were not taught. The answers were collected on paper templates. We wanted to determine the degree of relationship between the attendance of sessions and the results obtained by students in the final examination of the subject, as well as, the questions dedicated to assess the "distance learning" matter. The results support a significant statistical difference in the correct answers by students according to the number of sessions attended. These differences are highest among students who did not attend any session and those who attended the three planned sessions.

[Security material for venous peripheral..catheterization evaluation in an emergency ward]. / Material de seguridad para cateterización periférica venosa. Valoración en un servicio de urgencias.

Venous canalization can be one of the most frequent causes of accidents due to an accidental puncture. To carry out activities which serve to lessen these misfortunes, bearing high biological risk, should become a priority for sanitary institutions and for their professionals. Inside a global strategy which deals with this aspect and with the objective of evaluating the convenience these instruments have in our center the authors made a practical evaluation on a series of them to discover their technical viability and their subjective consideration by professionals who employ them. For motives related to the practices of the ward in which this research took place, an emergency ward, the authors intentionally chose two passive instruments, available on the market, and three nurses who received 120 sample security catheters, 60 each for products A and B, to carry out habitual clinical practices, alongside a pad of paper on which to record any incidents. Regarding instrument A, 30 incidents, 52.6%, were detected while 37 sample procedures occurred. Regarding instrument B, 4 incidents, 7.01%, were detected while 47 sample procedures occurred. In absolute terms, neither of the two instruments demonstrated problems of an insecure manner; which is to say neither produced a situation related to the appearance of mis fortunate incidents associated to accidental punctures. The lower number of incidents with instrument B appears to be related to the habitual use of a conventional cathetec not a security one, produced by the same manufacturer in our center This research project was subsidized by the Sanitary Research Fund, PI 051265.

Captación con 131 I para determinar la función de la glándula tiroides: correspondencia entre los valores obtenidos a las 2 y 24 horas / Captation with 131 I to determine the function of the thyroid gland: correspondence within values obtained at the 2 and 24 hours

Se estudiaron a las 2 y 24 horas a 1 146 pacientes, con captación a las 2 horas entre 1 y 24 % se excluyeron los estudios con inhibición. Se comparan los resultados de ambos estudios. El rango de valores para la captación a las 24 horas es del 10 al 50 %. Se concluye que la captación a las 2 horas del 1 % corresponde a pacientes hipotiroideos, la del 5 al 16 % a pacientes eutiroideos, mientras que el rango entre el 2 y el 4 % es dudoso, para pacientes hipotiroideos y eutoroideos y todo aquél que presente el 17 % o más es dudoso de eutiroidismo o hipertiroidismo

Revisión de los marcos estereotáxicos en la neurocirugía, la radioneurocirugía y la neurología / Revision of stereotactic frames in radioneurosurgery and neurology

Se plantea como principal objetivo revisar los diferentes marcos estereotáxicos y guías de localización que existen en la actualidad, limitándose a los sistemas más extensamente conocidos y empleados, y aquellos que a pesar de no ser tan conocidos o difundidos, son de interés por sus aportes o que son utilizados en nuestro ámbito latinoamericano