Introducción: en la actualidad los accidentes de tránsito son considerados un serio problema de salud pública, debido al número de lesionados y muertos que ocasionan, y los recursos económicos que deben destinarse para su atención y recuperación. Objetivo: caracterizar los accidentes de tránsito en la provincia de Cienfuegos durante el año 2019.Método: se realizó un estudio observacional descriptivo y retrospectivo, en pacientes que tuvieron un accidente de tránsito en la provincia de Cienfuegos, el de período de enero a diciembre del 2019. El universo estuvo constituido por 300 pacientes. No se utilizó técnica de muestreo, coincidiendo la muestra con el universo de estudio. Las variables utilizadas fueron: edad y sexo, lesiones leves, lesiones graves, fallecidos, municipio y horario de ocurrencia del hecho, causa del accidente. Se utilizó estadística descriptiva.Resultados: predominó el sexo masculino en las víctimas por AT (77 %). Destacó el grupo de edades entre 21 y 25 años (11,7 %). El tipo de lesiones de mayor presencia fueron las leves (79,7 %). El municipio de elevada incidencia fue Cienfuegos (47 %). Predominó el horario de 16:01 hasta las 20:00 horas (22,5 %). La principal causa de los accidentes de tránsito fue por no atender el control del vehículo (30,2 %).Conclusiones: Los accidentes de tránsito en la provincia de Cienfuegos reportan un gran número de lesionados y fallecidos. Los siniestros fueron resultado de la combinación de factores relacionados con la víctima, el vehículo, la infraestructura vial, el tráfico, el control, el horario, y lugar de ocurrencia.

Introduction: The advancement of Anesthesiology depends to a large extent on scientific dissemination; developed countries present greater scientific production; In Latin America, the performance of bibliometric analyzes on the behavior of research in the specialty is imposed.Objective: to describe the trends, collaboration and impact of Latin American scientific production in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine indexed in Scopus and Web of Science between 2012 and 2021.Method: A metric analysis of the information was carried out on the articles published in the Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine research area in Scopus and Web of Science. 2,386 articles from Web of Science and 4,876 from Scopus were analyzed; Metric indicators were studied (Number of documents; percentage of documents; citations; types of collaboration; quartiles; journals; year of publication; country; institutions; author and H Index).Results: 2021 was the year with the highest volume of articles (12.96%). The most productive country was Brazil. The Mexican Journal of Anesthesiology obtained the highest publication frequency (935 articles). The University of São Paulo published 476 articles between 2012-2021. Carrillo-Esper R stood out with 86 articles. Brazil reached a higher frequency of documents in journals in all quartiles. 30.4% was national collaboration.Conclusions: The Latin American scientific production in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine behaved according to economic development, the number of scientific journals and related lines of research, institutional support and national collaboration.

Introduction: The Virtual Health Convention Center is dedicated to offering services related to scientific events. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the province of Cienfuegos has promoted several virtual activities, with the aim of maintaining the scientific momentum in the region.Objective: This study aims to characterize the scientific events carried out through the Virtual Health Convention Center.Methods: An observational, descriptive, quantitative-qualitative, cross-sectional, descriptive study was carried out. Six scientific events were examined in their entirety. The variables considered included: the scientific events held, the design and style of presentation of the papers, the category of the event according to its scope, modality and type, the central theme and year of the event, the number of papers presented, the participants, the comments and authors, the origin of the participants, and the types of research. Descriptive statistics were used for the analysis.Results: Six events were held that addressed highly relevant topics. The CovidCien2021 event stood out with 592 participants (49.04%). The province of Cienfuegos stood out with 496 delegates (41.09%). The most common research had three authors, with 104 papers (27.80%). The CovidCien2021 event also stood out with 174 researches (46.52%); bibliographic reviews were the most predominant. A total of 3293 comments were registered. A unique design was adopted for the submission of accepted papers on the event platforms.Conclusions: The use of virtual environments for the development of scientific activities has increased in popularity. These offer a higher rate of participation and presentation of papers, as well as the implementation of a unique and distinctive design in their development.