E. FERNÁNDEZ RODRÍGUEZ’s research while affiliated with University of Santiago de Compostela and other places

The aim of this paper is to determine which is the best early prognostic score in acute pancreatitis among those we have studied. Prospective study of acute pancreatitis cases during a 5 year period. 113 patients, biliary etiology in 93 cases, (average age: 63 years) and 66% females. The diagnostic accuracy of Ranson, Imrie, Osborne and apache II scores was analyzed. There were complications in 12%, and mortality was 8%. Among all the systems analyzed the Ranson criteria achieved the highest sensitivity (79%), although sensitivity was improved with Apache II at admission to the hospital (86%). We have obtained the best specificity with the Apache II (89%) and with the Osborne criteria (88%). The modification of Ranson's criteria for biliary etiology didn't improve the sensitivity (56%) to detect severe cases of acute pancreatitis. The Apache II system was the best for the early detection of severe acute pancreatitis. Its diagnostic sensitivity was higher than the multiple laboratory criteria analyzed.

Nowadays, the mountain in Galicia seems to have an exclusively forest porpouse, but traditionaly, this did not happen. The use of mountain is a model of sustainable situations, according to Balboa. Theses uses in Galicia could be summarized in the following points:  "Estivadas", use of the mountain based on utilization of fire for renewing gorse and broom bushes, getting collateraly a harvest of rye.  Rotation of rye-fallow during periods of 6-10 years and then let bushes to take up the land.  "Esquilme", which is a practice consisting on the use of bushes for cattle bedding. Once this material turned into manure, it could serve to fertilize crop lands.  Mountain pastures which were a huge pastures land for cattle herds: cows, sheep, goats and, to a lesser extent, horses. These animals grazed in freedom, semifreedom or colective grazing (system of "veceiras"). Apart from these main uses, there were others as: firewood, timber, fruits (chestnuts) or honey. These traditional uses could be found in mountain regions in Galicia, where there are different kinds of buildings depending on the area, which are dissapearing. All these constructions, today into disuse in most of cases, are a resource which should be held up, and not only because they have an ethnographic interest. Keyword: Mountain, buildings. 1. Exposition and objectives of the study. The maintenance and restoration of these buildings is necessary because of their historic, etnographic, cultural and even economic value. With this work we intend to do an introduction to the analysis of these constructions, starting from a field study that we done in eastern mountains of Galicia and from the bibliographic review. For doing this analysis, we work on the principle that this maintenance and restoration only will be done if the buildings are still functional, that is, if they still have some utilization. The first step to achieve this is doing an inventory of the buildings and classing them. This labour is only done in a localized and partial way. In second place, the possibility of a future utilization of these buildings has to be studied from two points of view: the possibility of maintenance of their current and traditional uses (agricultural and for cattle) and the possibility of new uses related to agroforestry and cattle sector or not. For analysing these two possibilities is necessary to study: - The kind of building and its constructive features. This knowledge will allow us to define if they are still useful in the new productive systems of the current extensive agriculture.