Under the motto 'Outpatient Care - Challenges and Advances in Clinical Specialties', the event took place last Saturday, in Luanda, bringing together more than 100 health professionals for a debate and exchange of knowledge around best practices and treatments in the areas of vascular surgery, endocrinology, cardiology and gastroenterology.
"Promoting these debates is essential to the development of nursing, in the sense that it promotes the exchange of ideas, care experiences and knowledge updating. This also creates the need for professionals themselves to invest more in their areas, encouraging scientific research and the development of more, and increasingly current, knowledge", argued Helena Vaz Martins.
Regarding the advances recorded in different clinical specialties over the last few years, the LMC coordinating nurse considers that they are "closely linked to the development of technology". "This phenomenon allows us to reach diagnoses more efficiently, and these diagnoses are also more accurate, encouraging professionals to stay up to date and capable. The phenomenon of easy access to information by users also means that professionals have to be better prepared in terms of the basis for their work, to better inform people who are more knowledgeable about their health conditions".
In a look and analysis of the best practices and treatments in the various specialties, Helena Vaz Martins highlighted, in cardiology, the "performance of transesophageal ultrasounds, which is presented as a very good practice, as it allows the evaluation of the structures of the heart, the diagnosis of pathologies such as heart murmurs, the identification of causes of syncope and problems at the level of heart valves, among others".
In turn, in the area of gastroenterology, the placement of an intragastric balloon appears as a minimally invasive procedure that helps with weight management.
"Vascular surgery and endocrinology, together, allow for better management and maintenance of the health status of patients suffering from diabetes, since, when diabetes is uncontrolled, it can cause vascular insufficiency and even diabetic foot. The collaboration of these two specialties, through the management of blood glucose levels and interventions to close these lesions, allows people with diabetes to recover their quality of life", highlighted the nurse.
Promoted for the second consecutive year by LMC, the Nursing to Care Days are training and knowledge sharing events, which aim to improve nursing care, through debates and practical workshops.
