The Colombian Association of Psychiatry continues to work in different areas (professional and scientific issues) with the aim of improving the profession for its members. As you will have noted, from the scientific standpoint, the journal, as a means of communicating the knowledge base generated by mental health professionals, both national and international, strives for continued improvement ...

By constructing realities, we try to make the stream of our experiences manageable. Reality construction thus takes place in a context of continuous problem orientation. What basically drives reality construction is not some all-compassing plan, but an unremitting flow of problem orientation. The results are not neatly ordered patterns of separable elements, but large nets of constructs, with c...

Tracheostomy is one of the most frequent procedures carried out in critically ill patients with major advantages compared to translaryngeal endotracheal intubation such as reduced laryngeal anatomical alterations, reduced inspiratory load, better patient's tolerance and nursing. Thus, tracheostomy can enhance patient's care in patients who need prolonged mechanical ventilation and/or control of...