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Faced with the crisis of our democratic systems, expressed in the different economic, environmental, and social collapses;and more recently in the socioeconomic consequences surrounding the management of the health crisis generated by COVID-19, Latin America today is a political scenario that has redefined the way in which citizen participation is deployed. Taking as a case study what happened in the Cali City, based on the socio-spatial (re) configurations, caused by the national strike in Colombia 2021, the role played by triple spatiality in this entire process of change will be analyzed. The central argument consists of the identification of the space that operate around this new form of non-institutionalized citizen participation: the micro/neighborhood space of social organizations, the virtual space of social networks and the urban macro space of the great urban mobilizations. We will review how this (triple) articulation of space and the emergence of new urban/political actors has occurred, in addition to its enormous transforming capacity. © 2022 Universidad Nacional de Colombia. All rights reserved.
ABSTRACT
Faced with the crisis of our democratic systems, expressed in the different economic, environmental, and social collapses;and more recently in the socioeconomic consequences surrounding the management of the health crisis generated by COVID-19, Latin America today is a political scenario that has redefined the way in which citizen participation is deployed. Taking as a case study what happened in the Cali City, based on the socio-spatial (re) configurations, caused by the national strike in Colombia 2021, the role played by triple spatiality in this entire process of change will be analyzed. The central argument consists of the identification of the space that operate around this new form of non-institutionalized citizen participation: the micro/neighborhood space of social organizations, the virtual space of social networks and the urban macro space of the great urban mobilizations. We will review how this (triple) articulation of space and the emergence of new urban/political actors has occurred, in addition to its enormous transforming capacity.
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This research summarizes the strategies employed in reconfiguring healthcare facilities in OECD member countries to care for patients with COVID-19. The findings were organized by highlighting each country’s hospital reconfiguration strategies, strategies targeting medical devices for treating COVID-19 patients, and medical devices classified by patient severity. Specific hospitals or new units were designated to treat patients in 79% of member countries, 47% reported having reoriented hospital areas for patient care, and 57% reported having increased capacity to treat patients in intensive care units. Telematic consultations (57%) and postponement of non-urgent interventions (76%) were reported strategies for reducing contagion. The 38 countries reported increased personal protective equipment, hospital beds, ventilators, and oxygenation supplies. Significantly few countries reported an increase in ECMO machines, negative pressure systems and rooms, and the availability of imaging equipment. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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It may be necessary a consideration about the best approach to the acute concomitant problems that critical COVID-19 patients can develop. They require a rapid diagnosis and an early treatment by a multidisciplinary team. As a result, we would like to describe two clinical cases a patient with diagnosis of COVID-19 pneumonia with good respiratory evolution that, after extubation suffered an acalculous cholecystitis and a patient with COVID-19 pneumonia that suffered an overinfection with necrotising pneumonia that presented with haemoptysis and was finally treated with arterial embolisation by the interventional radiologist's team.