La formación del profesional de enfermería incluye tradicionalmente teoría y práctica estructurada en entornos hospitalarios y/o ambulatorios, con la finalidad de que desarrollen las habilidades necesarias para interpretar, intervenir y cuidar a los pacientes. Para el presente estudio se describen las Experiencias del Aprendizaje de la Práctica Clínica en Pasantes de la Licenciatura en Enfermería del periodo 2024-2025. Estudio de tipo cualitativo con enfoque fenomenológico, con nueve pasantes de servicio social seleccionados de 110 de forma aleatoria, a quienes se les realizó entrevista de 20 minutos promedio. El presente estudio se apegó a los lineamientos de la secretaria de Salud en materia de investigación en seres Humanos y a la declaración de Helsinki. Los resultados van desde las experiencias, vivencias, aprendizaje auténtico, escenarios clínicos, habilidades, profesores del área clínica. Se puede concluir que se divide las experiencias en dos momentos primer y segundo semestre, el primero, los estudiantes percibían la pasantía como una oportunidad esencial para aplicar conocimientos teóricos y desarrollar habilidades prácticas en un entorno real. Sin embargo, esta visión inicial estaba acompañada de emociones como miedo y ansiedad, reflejo de la inseguridad ante las exigencias del ámbito clínico y las expectativas de aprendizaje técnico y adaptación a nuevas responsabilidades; en la segunda mitad de la práctica clínica, los participantes valoran la pasantía como una experiencia transformadora, donde adquirieron competencias técnicas como el manejo de equipos médicos y habilidades socioemocionales como la empatía y la resolución de conflictos.
Cardiogenic shock (CS) is a complex syndrome characterised by primary cardiac dysfunction. Despite advances in therapeutic options such as mechanical cardiac support, it remains associated with high mortality. Although previous registries have described heterogeneous populations and outcomes across different centres, contemporary real-world data on management practices remain limited. This gap is particularly evident in low- and middle-income countries, where there is no robust registry that clearly defines the current state of CS management. Therefore, a multicentre registry is needed to better characterise current practices and outcomes. Our study aims to gain insight into current therapeutic trends in Mexico, a low- to middle-income country with a significant cardiovascular disease burden.
The Mexican Registry of Cardiogenic Shock is a quality initiative that aims to identify therapeutic trends, demographic characteristics and clinical presentations. It also aims to evaluate outcomes, including mortality and cognitive function at in-hospital and 1-year follow-ups, and to identify areas for improvement in the care process across the broad spectrum of CS.
Ethical approval for this multicentre study was obtained from the local research ethics committees of all participating institutions. The study results will be disseminated to all participating institutions in the form of summary reports and presentations on completion of the analysis.
Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is the most common arrhythmia worldwide affecting an estimated 5% of people over the age of 65 and is a leading cause of stroke and heart failure. Identification of patients at risk allows preventative measures and treatment before these complications occur. Conventional risk prediction models are static, do not have flexibility to incorporate dynamic risk factors and possess only modest predictive value. Artificial intelligence and machine learning-powered health virtual twin technology offer transformative methods for risk prediction and guiding clinical decisions.
In this prospective observational study, 1200 patients will be recruited in two tertiary centres. Patients hospitalised with acute illnesses (sepsis, heart failure, respiratory failure, stroke or critical illness) and patients having undergone high-risk surgery (major vascular surgery, upper gastrointestinal surgery and emergency surgery) will be monitored with a patch-based remote wireless monitoring system for up to 14 days. Clinical and electrocardiographic data will be used for modelling the risk of new-onset AF. The primary outcome is episodes of AF >30 s and will be described as ratio of episodes/patient and as percentage of patients having episodes of AF. Secondary outcomes include 30-day and 90-day readmission rates and complications of AF.
The aim of this study is to generate data for the development and validation of health virtual twins predicting onset of AF in an at-risk population. The intelligent monitoring to predict atrial fibrillation (NOTE-AF) study is part of the TARGET project, a Horizon Europe funded programme which includes risk prediction, diagnosis and management of AF-related stroke (https://target-horizon.eu/).
The study has received approval by the Health Research Authority and the National Research Ethics Service (REC reference 24/NW/0170, IRAS project ID: 342528) in the UK and has been registered on clinicaltrials.gov (NCT06600620). Results will be disseminated as outlined in the TARGET protocol to communicate project ideas, activities and results to diverse audiences.
Establishing comparability between measured outcomes in clinical trials poses a significant obstacle for systematic reviewers. Core outcome sets (COSs) were developed to address this issue. The macular degeneration (MD) COS is designed to standardise outcome measurement across clinical trials for MD. This study investigates the uptake of the MD COS in standardising outcome measurement across clinical trials.
Cross-sectional analysis
We conducted a search on ClinicalTrials.gov to locate MD clinical trials that were registered 5 years prior to COS publication through the search date of 26 June 2023 and obtained a pool of 2152 registered studies. After applying various inclusion and exclusion criteria, we analysed 159 trials. We then analysed the COS uptake using an interrupted time series analysis (ITSA) and performed performed analyses of variance (ANOVAs) and Pearson correlations to evaluate associations between trial characteristics and outcome measurement.
ITSA showed no significant change in uptake following the MD COS (2016): mean percentage of completion of the COS increased by 0.24% per month before publication (p=0.27) and by 0.07% per month after publication (p=0.62), indicating no meaningful post-publication slope change in COS use. For context, visual acuity was most commonly measured, while several patient-reported and disutility domains were infrequently captured.
No discernible patterns in COS usage for MD trials were observed. We recommend further collaboration between regulators and COS developers to help with COS uptake. Additionally, we suggest that further studies analyse adherence to COSs in respect to regulatory recommendations.
Nos enfocamos en conocer las representaciones de los curanderos náhuatl de los estados de Colima y Jalisco, en relación con el mundo, la salud, la enfermedad, los enfermos; y las prácticas que realizan para tratar de recuperar la salud. Se trata de un estudio descriptivo, fenomenológico, y la recolección de datos se realizó a través de entrevistas semiestructuradas. Para la organización y análisis de los datos, se siguieron las directrices del Modelo Dialéctico Estructural del Cuidado (MDEC), estructurando los datos en tres estructuras: unidad funcional, marco funcional y elemento funcional. Teniendo como resultado, el curandero describe dimensiones de contacto visual y corporal con el paciente, crea un canal no convencional, poniendo en juego pasiones, deseos y sentimientos, en conclusión, El curandero ofrece servicios más cercanos al individuo, proporcionando una «explicación» a los acontecimientos desde la perspectiva biológica, psicológica, ecológica y sobrenatural.