FIRST ANDEAN CONGRESS OF ANAEMIA
Product from the leadership in the management of anaemia, the AWGLA (Anaemia Working Group Latin America) developed this great academic event in Bogota, Colombia.
Between March 15th to 17th 2007, at the Main Auditorium of the Casa Dann Carlton Hotel, in the capital city Bogotá, about 570 specialists from different medical specialties in Latin America met with major transcendence coming from Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Colombia, it counted with the participation of professors from other American and Spanish countries, in order to exchange knowledge of the highest level about recent advances and scientific studies addressed to enlarge the diagnosis and treatment of the different forms of anaemia, a disease which affects the human being in diverse physiopathologic expressions and that is more prevalent within countries in development.
Last year, the AWGLA had successfully developed the First South American Congress of Anaemia, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and thanks to its stood out participation in the region’s academic field, adopted the task of reproducing this commitment in the Andean region’s countries. It has enthusiastically involved professionals in pediatrics, cardiology, surgery, hematology, internal medicine, nephrology, critical care, anesthesiology, oncology, geriatrics, gynecology and obstetrics, into others, with which a value team was built providing, form their specialties a first level information about diagnosis, research and management of a complex of affections related with anaemia in patients with different diseases.
Within the main achievements of the Congress, there were revealed the most recent scientific advances worldwide in the management of the anemic patient underwent anesthesia for high complexity surgery and the innovation to strengthen the substantial reduction of blood derivates usage for transfusion, through the broad experience acquired with the intravenous iron’s usage, mainly sucrose iron, available in most of Latin American countries. Same results have been found in patients under critical conditions, admitted in the intensive care units, due to trauma, undermining chronic diseases or cancer, in which anaemia conditions a major deterioration in their recovery and increases death possibilities.
A very important and enriching space for physicians in the auditorium, was the focus and thematic around the Cardio Renal Anaemia Syndrome (CRAS). With consent, a major number of cardiologists, internal medicine physicians and nephrologists were observed talking properly about the management of this disorder recently described and which negatively impacts the quality of life of hundreds of people suffering cardiac diseases.
Anaemia has many expressions and clinical frames, the data exposed by doctor Grajeda-Toledo, OMS-OPS’s advisor, reveal a major prevalence in women than in men for the American continent, being the most affected group those in fertile age and those pregnant, becoming anemia itself, in a real worldwide public health problem. There is known that = 5% of population have hemoglobin values under -2 standard deviations of the hemoglobin distribution standard in a normal population of the same age and gender and those who live at the same altitude over the sea level. This strengthens the compromise acquired by the AWGLA developing its vision and mission in favour of the community and the scientific and academic advance of hundreds of health professionals.
According to he National Survey of Nutritional Situation in Colombia (ENSIN), performed by the Colombian Institute of Family Wellbeing (ICBF) published in 2006, in Colombia 32,8% of women in fertile age (13 to 49 years) and 44,7% of pregnant women suffers of anaemia, situation considered as a serious issue in health assistance. With astonishment, the Congress revealed recent ciphers of WHO/NHD very superior in Peru, Haiti, Guyane and Bolivia, additionally showing the epidemiologic behavior in the scholar age population, where anaemia is present almost in the half of such group.
AWGLA’s events - 2007
FIRST ANDEAN CONGRESS OF ANAEMIA
Product from the leadership in the management of anaemia, the AWGLA (Anaemia Working Group Latin America) developed this great academic event in Bogota, Colombia.
Between March 15th to 17th 2007, at the Main Auditorium of the Casa Dann Carlton Hotel, in the capital city Bogotá, about 570 specialists from different medical specialties in Latin America met with major transcendence coming from Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Colombia, it counted with the participation of professors from other American and Spanish countries, in order to exchange knowledge of the highest level about recent advances and scientific studies addressed to enlarge the diagnosis and treatment of the different forms of anaemia, a disease which affects the human being in diverse physiopathologic expressions and that is more prevalent within countries in development.
Last year, the AWGLA had successfully developed the First South American Congress of Anaemia, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and thanks to its stood out participation in the region’s academic field, adopted the task of reproducing this commitment in the Andean region’s countries. It has enthusiastically involved professionals in pediatrics, cardiology, surgery, hematology, internal medicine, nephrology, critical care, anesthesiology, oncology, geriatrics, gynecology and obstetrics, into others, with which a value team was built providing, form their specialties a first level information about diagnosis, research and management of a complex of affections related with anaemia in patients with different diseases.
Within the main achievements of the Congress, there were revealed the most recent scientific advances worldwide in the management of the anemic patient underwent anesthesia for high complexity surgery and the innovation to strengthen the substantial reduction of blood derivates usage for transfusion, through the broad experience acquired with the intravenous iron’s usage, mainly sucrose iron, available in most of Latin American countries. Same results have been found in patients under critical conditions, admitted in the intensive care units, due to trauma, undermining chronic diseases or cancer, in which anaemia conditions a major deterioration in their recovery and increases death possibilities.
A very important and enriching space for physicians in the auditorium, was the focus and thematic around the Cardio Renal Anaemia Syndrome (CRAS). With consent, a major number of cardiologists, internal medicine physicians and nephrologists were observed talking properly about the management of this disorder recently described and which negatively impacts the quality of life of hundreds of people suffering cardiac diseases.
Anaemia has many expressions and clinical frames, the data exposed by doctor Grajeda-Toledo, OMS-OPS’s advisor, reveal a major prevalence in women than in men for the American continent, being the most affected group those in fertile age and those pregnant, becoming anemia itself, in a real worldwide public health problem. There is known that = 5% of population have hemoglobin values under -2 standard deviations of the hemoglobin distribution standard in a normal population of the same age and gender and those who live at the same altitude over the sea level. This strengthens the compromise acquired by the AWGLA developing its vision and mission in favour of the community and the scientific and academic advance of hundreds of health professionals.
According to he National Survey of Nutritional Situation in Colombia (ENSIN), performed by the Colombian Institute of Family Wellbeing (ICBF) published in 2006, in Colombia 32,8% of women in fertile age (13 to 49 years) and 44,7% of pregnant women suffers of anaemia, situation considered as a serious issue in health assistance. With astonishment, the Congress revealed recent ciphers of WHO/NHD very superior in Peru, Haiti, Guyane and Bolivia, additionally showing the epidemiologic behavior in the scholar age population, where anaemia is present almost in the half of such group.
Data reported in the ENSIN survey, reveal that in Colombia the 33, 2% of children between 1 to 4 years of age and the 37, 6% of children between 5 to 12 years of age suffer anaemia, the role that pediatricians play still being transcendental and allows to impact over the better individual’s cognitive performance, decreasing the number of those still having after-effects in their psycho-motive development.
In Latin America there is low conscience existing within governors, administrative officers and many health professionals about anaemia’s prevention. Nonetheless, each time more, physicians and other health actors are involved in novel and modern options in the management of the different kind anaemias, the concern about indiscriminate and sometimes irresponsible high cipher of blood transfusions is crescent. It was possible to count with the intervention of true specialists in transfusion medicine who agree in recommend that the alternative options of a transfusion must be always analyzed and should surpass their employment; therapies with erythropoietin and intravenous sucrose iron are priority, which offers an excellent management option, being each day much more used in the region in all medical specialties.
The AWGLA is present in 16 countries in Latin America: Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic, Uruguay and Venezuela, and it is a subsidiary on the whole with the others AWG in the world, mainly dedicated to academic and investigative aims, which are fulfilled and now are well strengthened with their participation in the First Andean Congress of Anaemia, moreover for the Andean region will be the launch platform of a number of academic high quality international events and in the near future, the performance of regional and possibly Iberian-American meetings, with the active participation of Spain and Portugal, what will benefit in a better way the study and management of anaemia.
Hoover O. Canaval Erazo President of the 1st Andean Congress of Anaemia, former President of AWGLA |
