Objective: To evaluate the factors that contribute to the increase of patients infected by COVID-19 in different families in Latin America. Material and  methods:  Being a cross-sectional descriptive study. The population consisted of users of social networks with respect to factors contributing to COVID-19 infection. A digital questionnaire was used with sociodemographic variables, biosecurity factors, cultural factors and environmental factors. Descriptive and bivariate analysis was performed according to the nature of the variables. Results:1123 questionnaires of Facebook users from Latin America were analyzed, including: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela and Peru, most of them women (77 %), (81 %) between 18 and 31 years old.  About the biosecurity factors that contribute to the contagion of the population, 43% of the re...

Objective: To establish the prevalence of Chlamydia trachomatis infection in a population with reproductive problems. Design: Descriptive epidemiological study performed between july 1997 and june 1998. Material: To 140 couples with problems of reproduction attended at the Human Reproduction Unit of EsSalud Edgardo Rebagliati Martins National Hospital endocervical (women) or urethral (men) samples were obtained to detect Chlamydia trachomatis. Study measures: Detection of C. trachomatis by direct immunofluorescence, IgG and ’IgA. Results: By direct immunofluorescence Chlamydia antigen was present in 122(43,6%) patients, in both members of the couple in 59,8%. The majority of patients did not present symptoms, 23% did not have sperm alteration, notwithstanding being Chlamydia positive and the majority of women showed tubal alterations by laparoscopy and 12% microvesicles. Conclusion: Pr...

Objective: To establish the prevalence of Chlamydia trachomatis infection in a population with reproductive problems. Design: Descriptive epidemiological study performed between july 1997 and june 1998. Material: To 140 couples with problems of reproduction attended at the Human Reproduction Unit of EsSalud Edgardo Rebagliati Martins National Hospital endocervical (women) or urethral (men) samples were obtained to detect Chlamydia trachomatis. Study measures: Detection of C. trachomatis by direct immunofluorescence, IgG and ’IgA. Results: By direct immunofluorescence Chlamydia antigen was present in 122(43,6%) patients, in both members of the couple in 59,8%. The majority of patients did not present symptoms, 23% did not have sperm alteration, notwithstanding being Chlamydia positive and the majority of women showed tubal alterations by laparoscopy and 12% microvesicles. Conclusion: Pr...

Objective: To establish the prevalence of Chlamydia trachomatis infection in a population with reproductive problems. Design: Descriptive epidemiological study performed between july 1997 and june 1998. Material: To 140 couples with problems of reproduction attended at the Human Reproduction Unit of EsSalud Edgardo Rebagliati Martins National Hospital endocervical (women) or urethral (men) samples were obtained to detect Chlamydia trachomatis. Study measures: Detection of C. trachomatis by direct immunofluorescence, IgG and ’IgA. Results: By direct immunofluorescence Chlamydia antigen was present in 122(43,6%) patients, in both members of the couple in 59,8%. The majority of patients did not present symptoms, 23% did not have sperm alteration, notwithstanding being Chlamydia positive and the majority of women showed tubal alterations by laparoscopy and 12% microvesicles. Conclusion: Pr...

Background: To emphasize treatment speed for time-sensitive conditions, emergency medicine has developed not only the concept of the golden hour, but also the platinum half-hour. Patients with acute stroke treated within the first half-hour of onset have not been previously characterized. Methods: In this cohort study, we analyzed patients enrolled in the FAST-MAG (Field Administration of Stroke Therapy-Magnesium) trial, testing paramedic prehospital start of neuroprotective agent ≤2 hours of onset. The features of all acute cerebral ischemia, and intracranial hemorrhage patients with treatment starting at ≤30 m of last known well were compared with later-treated patients. Results: Among 1680 patients, 203 (12.1%) received study agents within 30 minutes of last known well. Among platinum half-hour patients, median onset-to-treatment time was 28 minutes (interquartile range, 25-30), a...