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Background: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) is one of the most commonly performed emergency procedures, with approximately 600,000 patients undergoing the procedure every year in the United States. Although LC is associated with fewer complications when compared with open cholecystectomy, the risk for infectious complications, including surgical site infection and intra-abdominal abscess, remains a significant source of postoperative morbidity. The goal of this study is to determine whether the gallbladder retrieval technique during LC affects risk of infectious complications. Methods and procedures: We conducted a retrospective comparative study in a minimally invasive surgery high-volume center in Bogota, Colombia. Patients who underwent LC in 2018 to 2020 were identified. The patients were divided into three groups. One group of LC performed using home-made gallbladder retrieval bag (HMGRB), and another group of LC performed using commercial gallbladder retrieval bag (CGRB). The primary outcomes were infectious complications of superficial site infection and intra-abdominal abscess. Results: A total of 68 (7.58%) patients underwent LC using an HMGRB, and 828 (92.41%) using a CGRB. There was no significant difference in preoperative sepsis, or sex distribution between patient groups. Using t test, we found differences on age distribution among groups (p < 0.01), surgical times (p < 0.01), and length of stay (p = 0.01). When using Chi square, we found differences in Tokyo and Parkland Grading Scale severity (p < 0.01), use of postoperative antibiotics (p < 0.01), and drain use (p < 0.01). Nonetheless, there was no difference in the rate of superficial surgical site infection (p = 0.92). Conclusion: HMGRB are not associated with increased risk of postoperative intra-abdominal abscess or superficial surgical site infection in comparison with CGRB but imply longer surgical times and length of stay. The use of HMGRB is safe, feasible, and has lower cost during LC. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The different circumstances that led young university students to marijuana use were analyzed, so our unit of analysis was young university students from the faculty of social sciences and the spatial dimension was the national university of Bogotá, as an inclusion criterion we interviewed students from the third semester who stated that they had used marijuana at least once in their lives. It was given a phenomenological approach that allowed us to study the problems of these young people as they experience and / or perceive them, not based on theories. To collect the information, the semistructured interview was applied with open-ended questions of preference that allowed the informants to express themselves freely and thus provided us with more information about the circumstances that motivated them to consume this type of hallucinogen. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The approach, the development, the results and the conclusions of a Participatory Action Research, PAR, carried out to approach a better understanding of the phenomenon of conceptualization through writing, from the elaboration of conceptual maps to the writing of definitions of concepts are presented. Such IAP was made following a model in cycles of observation, reflection, planning and action, repeated in ascending spiral in relation to the progress in favorable developments for the achievement of the common objective of the group of participants, teachers and students of the fourth and fifth grades of primary basic education of a school in Bogotá. It was demonstrated that this classroom practice contributed to a transformation of the students' thinking to such a point that it led them to distance themselves from the simple repetition of knowledge for the accumulation of information and to transcend to the construction, organization and expression of knowledge through writing, which is something unusual in ordinary didactic practices in these grades of primary basic education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Results of a research entitled “Statistical Assessment of Life for Analyzing Impact of Accident Rates" are shown in this article; the research is based on an experiment of choice conducted through stated preference surveys with the purpose of estimating the will to pay for having risk of death decreased in a scenario of public transportation in Bogotá. The experiment assessed the choice between conventional transportation service and a new safer system by comparing several characteristics: rate, trip time, and death probability. Data collected are consistent to a Binary Probit model which includes income and educational level of the individuals. It was found that the statistical value of life in this context is 128 million Colombian pesos, which is a significantly lower price when compared to international values. The debate about this topic at a domestic level is then opened. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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