One day a week one of the physician visits one of three school to do cardiovascular screening with every single child. This screening consist in evaluating the blood pressure (according percentiles), heart sounds, peripheral pulses and clinical signs of anemia.
The objective of this intervention is make an earlier diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases. If necessary, we could refer the children who needs it to the National Cardiovascular Center in Guatemala City –UNICAR-. For this activity we use stethoscopes, blood pressure cuff according to age of the patient, and a percentile’s chart.