Intensive Care

The intensive care residency program has been in existence since 2003 and has produced more than 55 graduates, who now hold senior positions in multiple institutions throughout the country.

The educational project of our residency program follows the basic guidelines set forth by the national residency accreditation system of the Ministry of Health's health team and those of the teaching and research committee of the Argentine Society of Intensive Care (SATI).

 The organization of intensive care services is based on hierarchical, participatory, and professional criteria. Responsibilities for medical decisions of all kinds are distributed according to this organization and in accordance with the principles of medical professionalism.

From a structural point of view, the unit consists of 28 single beds divided into four sectors (Intensive Care, Intermediate Care, Coronary Care, and Hemodynamics) that primarily receive medical-surgical patients, generating an approximate turnover of 1,700 critical patients per year.

From a technological standpoint, this unit is equipped with multi-parameter monitors and state-of-the-art microprocessor-controlled ventilators that enable the assessment and treatment of critically ill patients with the highest quality standards. 

It has the capacity to perform invasive and minimally invasive hemodynamic monitoring, as well as echocardiography, enabling personalized decision-making at the patient's bedside. 

Additionally, as a diagnostic resource, it has two CT scanners and a state-of-the-art MRI machine available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, allowing for contrast studies and specialized image evaluation by specialists in the field.

The availability of digital angiography equipment allows diagnostic and therapeutic procedures to be performed in both cardiology and interventional medicine. This technology enables multiple emergency situations to be resolved using minimally invasive approaches. 

Human resources consist of one head of service, three coordinators, and eight staff physicians who are alternately responsible for supervising, monitoring, and training 16 residents.

In addition, it has rotating staff from other residences within our institution or from other national and international institutions, either through academic agreements or free academic mobility. The latter will be arranged and organized according to service availability.

Doctors in training always work under supervision. All doctors on staff are involved in teaching activities, which is a primary objective of the service and is linked to their daily work.

In addition, the Medical Center home to the Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine Specialist Program of the University of Buenos Aires School of Medicine.

Director: Dr. Arnaldo Dubin

Deputy Director: Dr. Alejandro Risso Vázquez 

HEAD OF SERVICE
Dr. Dubin, Arnaldo

Coordinators
Rubatto Birri, Paolo Nahuel
Mugno, Matías
Mariano Furche

Chief Resident
César Alfonso Alquichire Jerez

A4:
María de las Mercedes Giménez Pecci
Pablo Daniel Cosentino
Viviana Muñoz
Néstor David Vargas Mamani

R3:
Cesar Andres Rodriguez Plata
Andrea Alejandra Duran Choquecallalta
Ruben Yucra Mitma
Alexis Cárdenas Aguirre

A2:
María Alejandra Serpa Garces
Franco Ezequiel Ceballos
Carlos Geovanny Bustos López
Alejandro Araujo Berrocal

R1:
Micaela Bourbotte
Yotman Stiver Manjarres Santos
Jhon Willian Borja Cedeño
Carlos Arturo Sánchez Nieves

General information:

  • Residence hours: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
  • Duration: 4 years.
  • Vacation: 4 weeks per year.
  • Number of vacancies for first-year residents: 4 (four).

Academic:

  • Certified by the National Ministry of Health and Specialist from the University of Buenos Aires (advanced course).
  • UBA headquarters for the Specialist Degree Program.
  • Advanced Specialist Course. SATI (Headquarters): Online classes and in-person workshops, and at UBA (Headquarters): In-person classes held at the Medical Center.
  • Classes provided by resident physicians and staff physicians.
  • Guard duty.
  • Interdisciplinary seminars with other Medical Center residencies Medical Center Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Imaging, and Neonatology).
  • Participation in conferences related to the specialty.
  • Presentation of research papers. 

Rotations:

Second year: Anesthesia at Hospital Alemán. 

Third year: echocardiography and coronary care unit (SO) and trauma (Fitz Roy)

4th year: 3 months of elective rotation.

Other information:

  • He puts on a dust coat and both of them.
  • We have a dining room that provides all meals.
  • Room with beds for residents on call.

Income:

  • UNICO exam (UBA campus) administered by the National Ministry of Health. 

Scientific Papers