The meeting was attended by about 30 first and second year students of the degree program assigned to the Faculty of Sciences of the ULS.

The First Critical Patient Conference of the Fourth Region was held at the University of La Serena, co-organized by the Intensive Kinesiology Society of the IV Region and the Kinesiology career of this higher education institution. 

The activity, aimed at doctors, kinesiologists, nurses and students from various educational institutions in the area, addressed the management and intensive care of critical patients. To this end, various presentations were given by renowned doctors and kinesiologists from Santiago and the hospitals of Coquimbo and La Serena. 

About 70 people attended these First Critical Patient Conferences of the Fourth Region, sponsored by Hemisur, IV Medical, Hospital San Pablo Coquimbo, Hospital de La Serena and Covidien, of which 30 were first and second year students of the Kinesiology degree at ULS.

Alfredo Gary, director of the Kinesiology program, highlighted that this first meeting “is of great relevance for the development of kinesiology at a regional level and in the future at a national level, also considering the current situation of careers in the health area in the country and education reform.”

Furthermore, the academic pointed out that, through this type of initiatives, the aim is to produce the regionalization of a scientific society such as Intensive Kinesiology and, at the same time, promote the Kinesiology career in the region, "with a direct link with the hospitals of La Serena and Coquimbo, and with the professionals.”

Mechanical ventilation workshops

Along with the exhibitions, the development of three mechanical ventilation workshops was contemplated. One of these was carried out at the Coquimbo Hospital and the other two at the University of La Serena with non-invasive mechanical ventilation.