El laboratorio clínico, en los últimos 30 años se ha convertido en la herramienta de mayor uso en el sistema asistencial, pues constituye el 80% de importancia en las decisiones clínicas. El profesional del laboratorio asume una gran responsabilidad, pues es quien debe brindar la información adecuada a los pacientes; información que debería estar plasmada en un adecuado consentimiento informado. El presente trabajo tuvo por objetivo determinar las características del consentimiento informado para el manejo de muestras biológicas en el personal del laboratorio clínico de un hospital de la región, durante el 2018. Para tal objetivo se aplicó un cuestionario a todo el personal del laboratorio clínico que voluntariamente aceptó participar en la investigación. Una vez recolectados los datos se realizó el análisis de estos mediante tablas y gráficos usando Stata 14. El análi...

Objetive. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a stir in the different system: health, economic and sociocultural around the world, this due to its characteristics so unique that they compare it to other great pandemics. Peru is no stranger to these circumstances that destabilize and alter tranquility and confront us with different ethical dilemmas. The dignity of the person intrinsic to his human condition, and which constitutes the basis of ethics, during times of crisis such as the one he is going through becomes more vulnerable, this being clearly reflected in the treatment given to patients , forgetting that they are people worthy of respect at all times and that this respect transcends all the data and examinations that belong to them, including their inert body in the event of death.

Objective: To describe the frequency and characteristics of the use of Informed Consent (IC) for the use of biological samples from clinical care for research purposes in a Peruvian hospital. Setting: Northern Peru Hospital. Material and methods: Cross-sectional descriptive study developed during 2018, in 50 laboratory workers, through an interview using a questionnaire validated by 5 bioethic experts. Results: 30/50 were women; mean years of service: 6.5; 42% biologists, 30% medical technologists, and 25% technicians; according to academic degree: 46% Bachelor, 26% Master and 24% technicians; 24/50 reported training in ethics, being: 15/26 (talks), 8/26 (short courses) and 3/26 (graduates); 76% know of the need for IC to use samples; 78% and 64% of those surveyed explain the procedure to hospitalized patients and relatives of unconscious patients, respectively; 74% of those surveyed exp...

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Objetive. To identify pathotypes of virulence genes of Escherichia coli from diarrheal samples of children under five years of age in the Lambayeque Region, in the period April-September 2018. The study: Descriptive and cross-sectional study. 75 E. coli strains from diarrheogenic samples were analyzed using real-time Multiplex PCR and primers for E. coli pathotype genes: daaD, aggR, eaeA, stx, ipaH and st. Findings: 34.66% (26/75) of virulence genes were detected from the total isolates. The enterotoxigenic E. coli pathotype presented the highest frequency, 18.67% (14/75) of the total isolates. It was also detected that the enterotoxigenic E. coli pathotype appeared in 53.86% (14/26) of the total positive strains. Also, in 11.54% of positive strains (3/26) they presented more than one pathotype. Conclusion: Molecular epidemiology will help a better, adequate and timely diagnosis of child...

Objective: This study aimed to detect, by multiplex PCR, genes associated with virulence factors of Escherichia coli de isolated from diarrheal samples of children under 5 years of age. Materials and methods: A descriptive, cross-sectional, single-cohort study, in which diarrheal samples from children under five years of age collected from January 2014 to March 2015 were analyzed. Specific primers for detecting the genes of the six pathotypes that cause childhood diarrhea were used: daaD gene (diffusely adherent Escherichia coli - DAEC), aggR gene (Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli - EAEC), eaeA gene (enteropathogenic Escherichia coli - EPEC), stx gene (Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli - STEC), ipaH gene (Enteroinvasive Escherichia coli - EIEC) and st gene (Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli - ETEC). Results: Virulence genes were found in 37.74 % ( 40/106) of the 106 Escherichia co...