Presentación de cámara anestésica de bajo costo como herramienta didáctica para explicar los fundamentos de la anestesia general a estudiantes de medicina veterinaria

Se presenta el uso de una cámara anestésica de bajo costo, construida en vidrio, de fácil manejo y limpieza, como recurso didáctico, para explicar, en ratones de laboratorio, los fundamentos de la anestesia general inhalatoria a estudiantes de medicina veterinaria. La cámara permite adecuada dosificación del anestésico, garantiza la vida de los animales y disminuye la exposición de profesores y estudiantes a los gases anestésicos. Así, se pueden abordar didácticamente los aspectos básicos de la anestesia general inhalada, como el efecto de la concentración del anestésico en el aire inspirado y solubilidad.

The regulation of Internet content. A qualitative, Colombian and comparative law study

 The incursion of Internet has created new forms of information and communication. As a result, today’s generation is culturally socialized by the influence of information and communication technologies in their various forms. This has generated a series of characteristics of social and cultural behaviour which are derivative of didactic, academic or recreational use. Nevertheless the use of the Internet from an early age represents not only a useful educational tool; it can constitute a great danger when it is used to access contents unsuitable for their adaptive development. Accordingly, it is necessary to study the legal regulation of internet content and to evaluate how such regulation may affect rights. Further, it is also important to study of the impact and use of this technological tool at level of the familiar unit, to understand better how it can suggest appropriate social mechanisms for the constructive use of Internet. The present investigation involves these two aspects with the purpose of uniting the legal and social perspective in a joint analysis that allows one more a more integral vision of this problem of great interest at the global level. 

Conceptuals Mentefactos as a Didactic-Pedagogical Strategy of the Basic Concepts in the Sampling Theory Applyed to the Health Research

In populational sampling it is vitally important to clarify and discern: first, the design or sampling method used to solve the research problem; second, the sampling size, taking into account different components (precision, reliability, variance); third, random selection and fourth, the precision estimate (sampling errors), so as to determine if it is possible to infer the obtained estimates from the target population. The existing difficulty to use concepts from the sampling theory is to understand them with absolute clarity and, to achieve it, the help from didactic-pedagogical strategies arranged as conceptual “mentefactos” (simple hierarchic diagrams organized from propositions) may prove useful. This paper presents the conceptual definition, through conceptual “mentefactos”, of the most important populational probabilistic sampling concepts, in order to obtain representative samples from populations in health research.