
El médico que hoy formamos tiene una visión más integral de los problemas de salud del ser humano. En nuestro sistema de salud, el nivel primario constituye, en gran medida, su puerta de entrada. Los profesionales que laboran en este nivel deben estar preparados para resolver los problemas de salud propios de su especialidad e identificar aquellas entidades que deben ser resueltas en los otros niveles del sistema. El abdomen agudo quirúrgico es de los problemas de salud que deben ser atendidos oportunamente para evitar complicaciones, incluso fatales, en nuestros pacientes. Un método pedagógico para aprender los conocimientos necesarios, con calidad y que orienta la conducta correcta ante cada paciente, es el método de las invariantes. El concepto de invariante contempla la identificación de aquellas cuestiones fundamentales, esenciales y necesarias para poder sospechar un diagnóstico. Cuando el Médico General Integral conoce las invariantes de una entidad, puede tomar decisiones con un elevado margen de seguridad. Un abdomen agudo quirúrgico puede ser producido por cientos de enfermedades y estudiarlas una por una sería interminable; dada su gravedad, cualquier error que se cometa en su manejo puede ser fatal. Hemos identificado 7 signos invariantes en el abdomen agudo quirúrgico, estos signos que presentamos en este trabajo, pueden ser reconocidos en 9 de cada 10 pacientes que consultan con un dolor abdominal agudo. Existen dificultades para su identificación en un pequeño número de pacientes, a lo que hemos llamado "Situaciones Especiales".The physicians that we are preparing today have more comprehensive vision of the health problems of the human being. In our health care system, the primary health care level constitutes, in a greater extent, an entry door. Health professionals working at this level should be ready to solve health problems inherent to their specialty and to identify those entities that should be resolved at other levels of the system. Acute surgical abdomen is a health problem to be faced immediately to avoid complications, even fatal, in our patients. A pedagogic method for acquiring with quality the necessary knowledge and orienting the correct behaviour to each patient is the method of invariants. The concept of Invariant covers the identification of essential and necessary questions to arrive at a diagnosis. When the Comprehensive General Physician knows the invariants of an entity, then he/she can take decisions with a high margin of safety. An Acute Surgical Abdomen may be caused by hundreds of diseases, therefore, it will be impossible to study them, one by one. Since this is a serious entity, any mistake made in managing this disease can be fatal. We have identified seven (7) Invariant signs in Acute Surgical Abdomen, which can be recognized in 9 out of 10 patients that go to the doctor’s with acute abdominal pain. There are difficulties due to the identification of these signs just in a small number of patients to whom we call "Special Situations"
EMERGENCIES, Medicine (General), PRIMARY HEALTH CARE, EDUCACION EN SALUD, HEALTH EDUCATION, ABDOMEN AGUDO, ABDOMEN; ACUTE, ATENCION INTEGRAL DE SALUD, R5-920, ATENCION PRIMARIA DE SALUD, URGENCIAS MEDICAS, COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CARE, ABDOMEN, ACUTE
EMERGENCIES, Medicine (General), PRIMARY HEALTH CARE, EDUCACION EN SALUD, HEALTH EDUCATION, ABDOMEN AGUDO, ABDOMEN; ACUTE, ATENCION INTEGRAL DE SALUD, R5-920, ATENCION PRIMARIA DE SALUD, URGENCIAS MEDICAS, COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CARE, ABDOMEN, ACUTE
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