Hace más de cuatro décadas que surgieron las voces que alertaban sobre los peligros que traía consigo el deterioro de los ecosistemas (Gaudino, 2009). A raíz de estos impactos surge la preocupación por el medio ambiente y aquí es donde entra en juego la educación ambiental. La actitud se refiere a una disposición frente a una experiencia que influye en la conducta del individuo. Esta disposición afectiva y racional se manifiesta en los comportamientos, por ello tienen un componente conductual o comportamiento, rasgos afectivos y una dimensión cognitiva no necesariamente consciente. Por otro lado, la enseñanza de actitudes y valores nos ayudará a proponer estrategias de enseñanza distintas a las utilizadas convencionalmente en Educación Superior. Por lo anterior, es necesario relacionar las actitudes a desarrollar con los contenidos impartidos en los programas de las asignaturas, así como a la propia realidad individual del estudiante, de sus tendencias actitudinales frente al medio ambiente e intentar modificar sus actos. Lo anterior nos permitirá tener la posibilidad de lograr cambios a nivel afectivo, conductual y cognitivo respecto al medio ambiente de los sujetos, mediante la implementación de un proyecto de educación ambiental
BACKGROUND: Acromegaly is a chronic, progressive and multisystemic disease caused by growth hormone hypersecretion by a functioning pituitary macroadenoma. Some clinical features of this disease are important for anesthetic management, especially those that affect the upper airway, and the cardiac, respiratory and metabolic systems. CASE REPORT: Male 34 year old patient, with progressive increase of feet, hands, nose, skull bone and tongue size, diagnosed with acromegaly caused by growth hormone producing pituitary macroadenoma. Later he presents with severe SAHOS, mitral and mild tricuspid insufficiency; so transsphenoidal resection of pituitary macroadenoma was programed. During preanesthetic evaluation was classified as ASA III Surgical Risk, Lee Cardiac Risk 0.04%, NYHA I, and high probability of difficult airway. The anesthetic induction scheme was: propofol 120 mg, remifentanil 0.2 mcg / kg / min, rocuronium 50 mg. Atraumatic orotracheal intubation using McCoy leaf N4, with reinforced endotracheal tube N 7.5 was achieved. EVOLUTION: The patient was taken to Intensive Care Unit for post-surgical control. The patient remained hospitalized for 7 days and was discharged in stable condition without neurological deficit. He is still in follow up of the severe SAHOS. It has been reported improvement of the episodes of night apnea. CONCLUSION: Patients with pituitary gland disease undergoing surgery can present some anesthetic challenges, from the airway management, to the important hemodynamic and ventilatory challenges during the surgical procedure. It is important to anticipate and prevent the possible complications and correct them in time in order to avoid irreversible injuries that increase the patient’s morbidity
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