All public hospitals in the Canary Islands have a system for early detection of HIV.

He Canarian Health Service (SCS) has completed the implementation of an automated medical history system in all public hospitals in the islands for early detection of HIV in the emergency services of hospital centers, which will be dedicated to patients with clinical symptoms associated with the disease.

According to the Ministry of Health, this project more affordablediagnosis for a specific profile of patients other than users of the primary care services in which the test is performed. early detection sexually transmitted diseases.

Follow the recommendations of the Clinical Guideline for Early Diagnosis of HIV, STIs, Viral Hepatitis and Prevention and Control Plan.

The initiative is carried out within the framework of an agreement signed between SCS and Gilead, taking into account the recommendations of the Spanish Society of Emergency Medicine (SEMES), the Society of Microbiology of the Canary Islands and the Association of Infectious Diseases of the Canary Islands. Thus, with the accession this Thursday of La Gomera and Fuerteventura to this project, all SCS hospitals have this tool, which complies with the recommendations of the Clinical Guidelines for Early Detection of the Prevention and Control Plan for HIV, STIs, Hepatitis Viral Infections and Tuberculosis. , which recommends promoting the offer of HIV testing through serological testing in certain circumstances across health services, including emergency services.

EARLY DIAGNOSIS

Therefore, screening in Emergency services facilitates the diagnosis of a range of profiles, such as young people, sexually active people, immigrants or older people without suspected HIV who do not know, cannot or do not want to screen in their primary health care center. For this purpose it is used automated alarm system serve as a reminder to clinicians of the need to conduct HIV serological testing in certain clinical situations.

This system automatically identifies people being treated in the emergency department who have a clinical situation compatible with HIV/AIDS, so that by implementing automation in the SELENE health record system, an alarm is generated alerting the clinician to consider offering the patient an HIV test. HIV and ask serology non-urgent HIV.