Doctor Nurys Diéguez Andrés (1951-2016), mainstay of the Intensive Care Medicine in Las Tunas

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HISTORY OF MEDICINE, INTERNAL MEDICINE, EMERGENCY MEDICINE

Abstract

Doctor Nurys Nirma Diéguez Andrés is one of the outstanding personalities in the barely four decades of universal and free medicine in the Cuban province of Las Tunas. She started her graduate studies on Internal Medicine at Dr. Ernesto Guevara de la Serna Hospital, her long-life workplace, in 1981. There she was the founder of the local intensive care services as well as the program of donor organ extraction for transplantation to those patients in need. Her teaching activities began as Instructor in 1985, ascending to Assistant in 1992 and to Auxiliary Professor in 2001. She was designated Consultant Professor on December 7th, 2007. All the generations of intensive care physicians and nurses were molded by her educational activity. She passed away last March 23rd, 2016, in the hospital to which she devoted her whole professional career.

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Author Biography

Orlando Rafael Serrano Barrera, Hospital General Docente "Dr. Ernesto Guevara de la Serna", Las Tunas

Especialista de Segundo Grado en Inmunología. Máster en Enfermedades Infecciosas. Investigador Auxiliar.

Profesor Asistente. Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Las Tunas.

References

Mengana Castillo L, Diéguez Andrés NN, Castañeda Guerra MC, Pupo Guerra JI, Santiesteban Ruz I. Los Inhibidores de la Enzima Convertidora de la Angiotensina, una Opción Hipotensora en el Adulto Mayor. Hogar De Ancianos “Dr. Carlos Font Pupo”. Las Tunas. Revista Electrónica Dr. Zoilo E. Marinello Vidaurreta [revista en internet]. 2004 [citado 19 de junio 2016]; 23(Enero-Abril). Disponible en: http://www.ltu.sld. cu/revista/index_files/articles/enero-abril2004_8.htm.

Published

2016-06-28

How to Cite

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Serrano Barrera OR. Doctor Nurys Diéguez Andrés (1951-2016), mainstay of the Intensive Care Medicine in Las Tunas. Rev. electron. Zoilo [Internet]. 2016 Jun. 28 [cited 2025 Sep. 6];41(7). Available from: https://revzoilomarinello.sld.cu/index.php/zmv/article/view/833

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In memoriam