Holguin will host the Traveling General Surgery Congress on October 27th and 28th. Held at the Pernik Hotel in the provincial capital. This event, designed to foster exchanges with surgical professionals from various hospitals in the province and throughout Cuba, will discuss current challenges and future prospects. Combining efforts to improve the quality of care for surgical patients.
According to Dr. C. Elianis Ocaña Samada, president of the Provincial Council of Scientific Health Societies (CPSCS). The congress is sponsored by the Cuban Society of Surgery. Its Holguin Chapter, as well as the Provincial Group of the specialty, and the General Directorate of Health. It is destined to become a space that contributes to the development of surgery, with a comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach.
The inauguration of the teaching area at the Lenin Hospital is scheduled with a lecture by Doctor of Science Rafael Vázquez Fernández. Who led the surgical team that successfully separated the first conjoined twins in Latin America.
This will be followed by remarks by Dr. C. Orestes Noel Mederos Curbelo, President of the Cuban Society of Surgery (SCC). A meeting of the SCC Board of Directors, the Provincial Surgery Group (GPC). And the Surgery Chapter with the General Directorate of Health is scheduled for later.
The scientific session on the 28th will begin with an inaugural lecture on the “History of Esophageal Surgery in Cuba,” given by Dr. Mederos Curbelo. This will be followed by an intense scientific debate in panels covering topics related to the history of surgery, patient safety, surgical conditions, advanced technologies, professional training, surgical development, and the core values of the general surgeon.
In Room A, chaired by Dr. C. Nerza Enid Peña Pupo, the following lectures will be presented: Safe Surgery: Evidence, Challenges, and Leadership. Management of Open Pneumothorax: Proposed Clinical Classification. Older Adults with Acute Cholecystitis Treated by Videolaparoscopy. Roux-en-Y Technique as Intestinal Continuity in Total Gastrectomy for Cancer.
Also Bethesda III and IV Thyroid Nodule: Dilemmas and Evidence; and Tracheal Stenosis. Facing Challenges with Surgical Innovation and Essential Values for Cuban Surgeons, taught by Drs. Luis Mario Carrasco Feria, Armando Leal Mursuli, Alain Yasmani Domínguez López, Nerza Enid Peña Pupo, Nelson Manuel Guerra Herrero, Juan Carlos Gámez Ricardo, Edenia Pérez Navarro, and Yasmín Rodríguez Pascual, respectively.
Free topics will also be presented on Methodology for the training of general surgery residents in VL cholecystectomy. Videolaparoscopy in blunt abdominal trauma; and Reperfusion Therapy in intestinal ischemia. An experimental study; authored by Andi Maykel González García, Carlos Charchabal García, and Juan Carlos Pérez Cuenca.
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