Elizalde GJJ

Language: English
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Page: 296-297
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ABSTRACT

British physician Dr. Alan Gilston provided the strength and vision for the birth of our global organization after the 1st World Congress of Intensive Care Medicine in London in 1974. At the following World Congress in Paris in 1977 the first constitution was adopted by the General Assembly delegates and the organism was officially formed, joining up National Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine from the world and being his first president a great Mexican leader in the field, Dr. Alberto Villazón-Sahagún from 1981 to 1985.
Despite this, our country has never hosted a World Congress and this perhaps explains that it is poorly known in general in our professional environment, although one of the benefits of being credentialed in the COMMEC (Mexican College of Critical Care Medicine, formerly known as AMMCTI), is precisely belonging to this international organization.