Demetrio Sodi Pallares ( Spanish: Demetrio Sodi Pallares ; June 8, 1913 - August 12, 2003 ) is a Mexican cardiologist who proposed a glucose-insulin-potassium mixture, which is widely used in the treatment of emergency conditions to date.
| Demetrio Sodi Pallares | |
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| Spanish Demetrio Sodi Pallares | |
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| Date of Birth | June 8, 1913 |
| Place of Birth | Mexico city |
| Date of death | August 12, 2003 (90 years old) |
| A country |  Mexico |
| Scientific field | the medicine |
| Awards and prizes | Gold Medal of the National Institute of Cardiology |
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Biography
Born in Mexico City in 1913 in the family of a prominent law professor Demetrio Sodi Gerge (who defended Jose de Leon Toral - the killer of Mexican President Alvaro Obregon Salido ).
In 1929, Demetrio Sodi Pallares graduated from the medical school of the National University of Mexico.
After graduating from medical school, he worked in various clinical services in a general hospital in Mexico City such as endocrinology , dermatology , cardiology, together with the founder of Mexican cardiology Dr. Ignazio Chavez , while he was the head of the cardiology service of the hospital and professor of cardiology in University of Mexico. He completed a physiology internship with Wigger and Wilson in Ann Arbor , Michigan .
He studied the French school at Chavez, the Austrian school Wenckebach at Brumlick and the Anglo-Saxon school of Thomas Lewis at Wilson. After his return to Mexico, he produced a brilliant association of the most prominent electrocardiographic schools. The association was based on the study of the electrical activation process and its relationship with the anatomical, clinical and physiological information in patients.
Demetros Sodi Pallares died on August 12, 2003 in Mexico at the age of 90.
Recognition
In 1963, Demetrio Sodi-Paliares became vice president and further president of the National Academy of Medicine ( Mexico ). He was awarded the Gold Medal of the National Institute of Cardiology in 1964 .
In 1983, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Cordoba ( Spain ), and in 1993 - University of AlcalΓ‘ de Henares .
Publications
Sodi Pallares has published more than 20 books and received more than 100 scientific awards. His book Nuevas Bases de Electrocardiografia (New Basis of Electrocardiography) ( 1945 ) became especially famous.
GIC (Glucose-Insulin-Potassium Solution)
In the early 1960s, Demetrio Sodi-Pallares became a pioneer in the study of metabolic disorders of the heart, developing a new treatment for glucose, insulin and potassium (GIC). This mixture has played an important role in reducing nosocomial mortality from acute myocardial infarction .
Glucose-insulin-potassium treatment was used by Sodi-Paljares in myocardial infarction . In most patients, treatment was applied by intravenous infusion of a solution of 40 meq potassium chloride and 12.5-25 units of insulin in 1000 ml of 5-10% glucose solution. The infusion rate was 40-60 drops per minute. The main contraindications for treatment are shock and renal failure . The best results were obtained in patients with electrographic signs of "acute" and "chronic" damage and ischemia.