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En Ecuador, dada la emergencia sanitaria causada por el SARS-CoV-2, las instituciones educativas tuvieron que cerrar sus puertas, por lo que la educación debió continuar desde casa con la modalidad online o virtual, con los padres o tutores como principales encargados. Se debió de modificar las rutinas y ocupaciones para poder estar pendiente de la educación de sus hijos. El objetivo de esta investigación es conocer los niveles de estrés de padres o tutores involucrados en la educación online en tiempos de pandemia, para lo cual se aplicó la herramienta PSS-14 a 97 encargados de la educación de alumnos de la Unidad Educativa Particular Sagrada Familia que tienen a su cargo al menos a un estudiante de educación general básica, en el periodo lectivo 2021-2022. Como resultado, se evidenció que quienes se suenen encargar de la educación son mujeres con el rol de madres, de las cuales 11 tienen un nivel de estrés agudo episódico. Palabras clave: SARS-CoV-2, pandemia, padres, virtual, online, estrés, educación.

Se describe el caso de una mujer de 18 años con trastorno de estrés postraumático, desarrollara a partir de una internación hospitalaria por una enfermedad sin diagnosticar. Su sintomatología, los diversos exámenes y la experiencia hospitalaria, en la que presenció varias muertes, se vio acompañada de ansiedad e irritabilidad. Luego de que se interviniera quirúrgicamente y se le diera el alta, continua la ansiedad, acompañado de sintomatología postraumática. Se procede a la revisión del caso mediante entrevistas y aplicación de pruebas psicométricas para la obtención de un diagnóstico y posterior propuesta psicoterapeuta desde el modelo cognitivo-conductual. Palabras clave: psicología, plan, psicoterapia, trauma.

This manuscript highlights and critically analyses clinical and forensic signs related to chemical burns. Signs that may lead to suspicion of a particular chemical are thoroughly discussed regarding its underlying mechanisms. Burns due to sulfuric, hydrofluoric, nitric, hydrochloric (muriatic) and acetic (including derivatives) acids, hydrogen sulphide, sodium (caustic soda) and calcium (cement) hydroxides, paraquat, burns after inflation and rupture of airbags, povidone-iodine, chlorhexidine/alcohol (in preterm infants), laxatives, and vesicants (warfare agents), will be reviewed since these are the most common agents found in daily practice, for which relevant and timed information may be helpful in formulating an emergency treatment protocols and toxicological analysis. Language: en

Alternative matrices are steadily gaining recognition as biological samples for toxicological analyses. Hair presents many advantages over traditional matrices, such as urine and blood, since it provides retrospective information regarding drug exposure, can distinguish between chronic and acute or recent drug use by segmental analysis, is easy to obtain, and has considerable stability for long periods of time. For this reason, it has been employed in a wide variety of contexts, namely to evaluate workplace drug exposure, drug-facilitated sexual assault, pre-natal drug exposure, anti-doping control, pharmacological monitoring and alcohol abuse. In this article, issues concerning hair structure, collection, storage and analysis are reviewed. The mechanisms of drug incorporation into hair are briefly discussed. Analytical techniques for simultaneous drug quantification in hair are addressed. Finally, representative examples of drug quantification using hair are summarized, emphasizing its potentialities and limitations as an alternative biological matrix for toxicological analyses.

Over recent years, hair has become the ideal matrix for retrospective investigation of chronic abuse, including for tramadol. However, in order to exclude the possibility of external contamination, it is also important to quantify simultaneously its main metabolite, O-desmethyltramadol (M1), which presence in hair reflects systemic exposure. In the present study a methodology aimed at the simultaneous quantification of tramadol and M1 in human hair was developed and validated for the first time. After decontamination of hair samples (60 mg), tramadol and M1 were extracted with methanol in an ultrasonic bath (~5 h). Purification was performed by solid-phase extraction using mixed-mode extraction cartridges. Subsequently to derivatization, analysis was performed by gas chromatography-electron impact/mass spectrometry (GC-EI/MS). The method proved to be selective. The regression analysis for both analytes was shown to be linear in the range of 0.1-20.0 ng/mg with correlation coefficients of 0.9995 and 0.9997 for tramadol and M1, respectively. The coefficients of variation oscillated between 3.85 and 13.24%. The limits of detection were 0.03 and 0.02 ng/mg, and the lower limits of quantification were 0.08 and 0.06 ng/mg for tramadol and M1, respectively. The proof of applicability was performed in hair samples from six patients undergoing tramadol therapy. All samples were positive for tramadol and M1.

The development of analytical techniques that enable the use of hair as an alternative matrix for the analysis of drugs of abuse is useful for confirming the exposure in a larger time window (weeks to months, depending on the length of the hair shaft). In the present study a methodology aimed at the simultaneous quantification of cocaine and morphine in human hair was developed and validated. After decontamination, hair samples (20 mg) were incubated with a mixture of methanol/hydrochloric acid (2:1) at 65 °C overnight (~16 h) in order to extract the drugs of the matrix. Purification was performed by solid-phase extraction using mixed-mode extraction cartridges. After derivatization with N-methyl-N-(trimethylsilyl) trifluoroacetamide, blank, standards and samples were analyzed by gas chromatography/electron impact–mass spectrometry (GC-EI/MS). The method proved to be selective, as there were no interferences of endogenous compounds with the same retention time as cocaine, morphine and ethylmorphine (internal standard). The regression analysis for both analytes showed linearity in the range 0.25–10.00 ng/mg with correlation coefficients ranging from 0.9989 to 0.9991. The coefficients of variation oscillated between 0.83 and 14.60%. The limits of detection were 0.01 and 0.02 ng/mg, and the limits of quantification were 0.03 and 0.06 ng/mg for cocaine and morphine, respectively. The proposed GC-EI/MS method provided an accurate and simple assay with adequate precision and recovery for the quantification of cocaine and morphine in hair samples. The proof of applicability was performed in hair samples obtained from drug addicts enrolled in a Regional Detoxification Treatment Center. The importance of hair samples is highlighted, since positives results were obtained when urine immunoassay analyses were negative. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

We aimed to manipulate the metabolism of Saccharomyces cerevisiae to produce lactic acid and search for the potential influence of acid transport across the plasma membrane in this process. Saccharomyces cerevisiae W303-1A is able to use l-lactic acid but its production in our laboratory has not previously been detected. When the l-LDH gene from Lactobacillus casei was expressed in S. cerevisiae W303-1A and in the isogenic mutants jen1∆, ady2∆ and jen1∆ ady2∆, all strains were able to produce lactic acid, but higher titres were achieved in the mutant strains. In strains constitutively expressing both LDH and JEN1 or ADY2, a higher external lactic acid concentration was found when glucose was present in the medium, but when glucose was exhausted, its consumption was more pronounced. These results demonstrate that expression of monocarboxylate permeases influences lactic acid production. Ady2 has been previously characterized as an acetate permease but our results demonstrated its additional role in lactate uptake. Overall, we demonstrate that monocarboxylate transporters Jen1 and Ady2 are modulators of lactic acid production and may well be used to manipulate lactic acid export in yeast cells.