Dr. Prieto has extensive experience spanning several decades developing and running his own private medical practices to include but not limited to general family medicine, emergency medical cases and outpatient medical care. He brings his decades of experience to you wherever you are via 800TeleMed.com
He is a trusted and valued A&E consultant in Southend university hospital, mainly in mayor and resus area, in the UK where he is a hospital medical team leader in trauma calls and cardiac arrest cases, and in charge of the department when he is on call.
He treats and supervises a hospital medical staff treating many different emergency conditions such as DKA, COPD exacerbation, Sepsis, stroke, arrhythmias, acute abdomen and many other conditions.
He supervises many junior doctors and interns. Finally we have teaching section every week.
He has extensive experience managing a large daily flow of patients in both hospital and private medical practice settings. with all types of surgical and medical emergencies both for adults and Pediatric emergencies and poly-trauma patients.
He performs the first assessment of the patient and perform all the necessary manoeuvers for resuscitation: Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, airway support , venous access (peripheral or central venous line), fluid resuscitation, treatment of life-threatening arrhythmias, major analgesia, etc. I also have to establish a complete diagnosis, using the relevant investigations. For outpatient cases I do make diagnosis and treatment on many diseases in all population group, disease prevention program. I perform minor surgery. I used to see disease like Hypercholesterolemia, Diabetes Mellitus, Coronary disease, metabolic syndrome, arterial hypertension. I also perform diagnosis and vascular ultrasound.
He has played a team leader roll in trauma calls and cardiac arrest and has been in charge of the emergency room medical staff when he has been on call. Moreover I treat many different emergency condition as DKA, COPD exacerbation, Sepsis, stroke, arrhythmias, acute abdomen and others. I supervised all junior doctor work. Finally we have teaching section every week.
Education:
UNIVERSITY: Instituto Superior de Ciencias Medicas Sep 1985 to July 1991
Special Training:
Family Medicine: ISCM Santiago of Cuba
Emergency Medicine: Orlando Pantoja Teaching Hospital Santiago of Cuba
Special Training:
Functional Medicine: Dr. Kalish Institute
ALS: Yes Where Taken: Wales, UK DATE: June 2021
EPLS: Yes Where Taken: Aylesbury, UK DATE: Nov 2018
Appraisal Training: Where Taken: London, UK DATE: July 2018
ATLS: Yes Where Taken: London, UK DATE: Oct 2017
A&E Radiology Survival Course: Where Taken: London, UK DATE: April 2017
Diagnostic Ultrasound: Gainesville Florida, August 2002
Work Experience:
Sep 2016 – Present ED Consultant/Emergency Consultant Southend university hospital, UK
SUMMARY:
He has worked as an emergency room doctor in the Southend university hospital treating patients for minor to major medical conditions while playing the supervisory roll of team leader to interns and other junior medical staff responding to trauma, cardiac arrest and various other medical conditions such as but not limited to; diabetic complications, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Sepsis, stroke, arrhythmias, acute abdominal conditions to name a few.
Feb 2013 – Aug 2016 Family Doctor Medicsegur, Segur de Calafell., Barcelona, Spain
SUMMARY:
He has operated and worked in his own private practice handling emergency and outpatient cases with a daily flow of approx. 20 patients. He has extensive experience handling all types of surgical and medical emergencies for both adults, pediatric emergencies and trauma patients. He has performed: initial patient assessments, all the necessary manoeuvers for resuscitation: Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, airway support, venous access (peripheral or central venous line), fluid resuscitation, treatment of life-threatening arrhythmias, major analgesia, etc., established a complete diagnosis, using the relevant investigations. Conducted outpatient diagnosis and treatment for many diseases across population groups and administered disease prevention programs, performed minor surgeries. Diagnosed and treated diseases like Hypercholesterolemia, Diabetes Mellitus, Coronary disease, metabolic syndrome, arterial hypertension. I also perform diagnosis and vascular ultrasound.
Mar 2011 – Jan 2013 Emergency Physician Punta de Europa Hospital, Algeciras, Spain
SUMMARY:
The hospital I work in is the most important in Algeciras Malaga It has about 400 beds. The main departments
are: Intensive Care Department (25 beds), Surgical Departments-General Surgery, Orthopedic, Neurosurgery,
OB GYN, Cardiac Surgery-approximately 250 beds, and Medical Departments: Cardiology, Gastroenterology,
Pediatrics, Hemodialysis and Neurology-approximately 250 beds. Last year were admitted about 50.000
patients.
I work in the Emergency Department, we use a triage protocol on the patient’s arrival and Family Medicine residents or trained nurses are in charge with this assessment. The rest of the cases are directed to Receiving Rooms: there are Receiving Rooms for Internal Medicine, General Surgery, Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, where a specialist physician is in charge 24 hours.
The daily flow of patients in our A and E department is about 30. The staff consists of 20 emergency physicians (full time specialists or primary physicians) and about 30 nurses. We work a 24 hours shift every 4 days. There are 6 medical teams ; each of them is composed of 6 doctors and 2 or3 residents. We also work in the pre-hospital setting-ambulances and helicopter service.
I deal with all types of surgical and medical emergencies both for adults and Pediatric emergencies and poly-trauma patients. I perform the first assessment of the patient and perform all the necessary manoeuvers for resuscitation: Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, airway support (intubations with or without premedication), venous access (peripheral or central venous line), fluid resuscitation, treatment of life-threatening arrhythmias, major analgesia, etc. I also have to establish a complete diagnosis, using the relevant investigations. The available investigation facilities are: Analysis Laboratory, Radiology and Imagistic Medical Department (Ultrasonography, CT scan, Angiography, and Endoscopy).
I see about 30 to 50 cases in a 24 hours shift. I supervise the residents work.
Jan 2011 – Feb 2011 Emergency Physician Tenerife Salud. Canary Islands, Spain
SUMMARY:
Tenerife Salud is an urgent care setting facility I was the only physician on 12 hours shift. I was dealing with all types of surgical and medical emergencies. My duties here were the same as I have described above. I did make the referrals to other specialists whenever it was necessary and also for patient’s admittance. The daily flow of patients was about 50 patients.
May 2010 – Dec 2010 Family Doctor Centro de Prevencion Ibermutuamur. Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
SUMMARY:
Regular employee medical examinations
Jan 1995 – Apr 2010 Emergency Physician Orlando Pantoja Hospital Contramaestre, Santiago of Cuba
SUMMARY:
Emergency physician. The hospital I used to work in was the most important in Contramaestre, Santiago of Cuba It had 765 beds. The main departments were: Intensive Care Department (35 beds), Clinical Toxicology (25 beds), Surgical Departments-General Surgery, Orthopaedic, Neurosurgery, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Cardiac Surgery-approximately 500 beds, and Medical Departments: Cardiology, Gastroenterology, Haemodialysis and Neurology-approximately 200 beds. Last year were admitted about 50.000 patients, not only from Contramaestre or neighbourhoods, but from other places.
I was working in the Emergency Department, where patients arrived in critical condition; we used a triage protocol and emergency medicine residents or trained nurses were in charge with this assessment. The rest of the cases are directed to Receiving Rooms: there are Receiving Rooms for Internal Medicine, General Surgery, Neurosurgery, Plastic Surgery, Orthopaedics, where a specialist physician is in charge 24 hours.
The daily flow of patients in our ER was about 200; almost half of them needed to be admitted.
The staff consists of 20 emergency physicians (full time specialists or primary physicians) and about 30 nurses. A doctor must work 6 hours per day and a 24 hours shift every 6 days. There were 6 medical teams; each of them was composed of 8 to 10 doctors and part of them was residents. A team had a permanent leader; I was the leader of my team.
We worked not only in the ER, but also in prehospital setting-ambulances and helicopter.
I was dealing with all types of surgical and medical emergencies. It was my duty to do the first assessment of the critical patient and to perform all the necessary manoeuvres for resuscitation. This can mean cardiopulmonary resuscitation, airway support (intubations with or without premedication), venous access (peripheral or central venous line), fluid resuscitation, treatment of life-threatening arrhythmias, major analgesia, etc. The secondary assessment it was also my job-I had to establish a complete diagnosis, using the relevant investigations. The available investigation facilities were: Analysis Laboratory, Radiology and Imagistic Medical Department (Ultrasonography, CT scan, Angiography, and Endoscopy). I make the referrals to other specialists whenever it was necessary and also for patients admittance; in our hospital the emergency physician could not admit any patient without the specialist agreement.
I saw about 40 cases in a 24 hours shift. In the same time, I supervised the residents work.
When my team was on duty, I did coordinate the ER activity and the prehospital activity, too. I supposed to solve any unexpected problem that may appear.
I was interested and I was involved in all the clinical studies our department is developing.
Languages:
Spanish
English
Special Interests:
Travel, Baseball, the outdoors and fishing
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