The South African Medical Journal (SAMJ) - first published in 1884 - is a monthly, peer reviewed, general medical journal publishing leading research impacting clinical care in Africa. The journal now incorporates continuing medical education (CME).
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SAMJ October 2020 |
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| The full issue of Vol. 110 No. 10 is available for viewing and download under 'Issues' | |
| Posted: 2020-07-08 | |
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Online First: COVID-19 in South Africa
Table of Contents
Correspondence
| Modified full-face snorkel masks as personal protective equipment for COVID- 19 in South Africa | |
| L van Wyk, P Goussard, W A J Meintjes |
| Clinical v. laboratory-based screening for COVID-19 in asymptomatic patients requiring acute cardiac care | |
| L H Joubert, P G Herbst, A F Doubell, A J K Pecoraro |
| Metabolic alkalosis in hospitalised COVID-19 patients: A window to the pathogenesis? | |
| J Rood, R Davids, A le Roux, M du Plessis, A Parker, B W Allwood, H W Prozesky, C F N Koegelenberg, J J Taljaard |
Editorial
| Reflections for global public health research and evidence-based medicine during the COVID-19 pandemic | |
| E L Davids |
| Research imperialism resurfaces in South Africa in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic – this time, via a digital portal | |
| K Moodley |
| Access to novel therapies for COVID-19 – distributive justice and Russian roulette? | |
| M Pepper |
In Practice
| Is the COVID-19 regulation that prohibits parental visits to their children who are patients in hospital invalid in terms of the Constitution? What should hospitals do? | |
| D J McQuoid-Mason |
| Essential medicine selection during the COVID-19 pandemic: Enabling access in uncharted territory | |
| T D Leong, S M McGee, A L Gray, R de Waal, T Kredo, K Cohen, G Reubenson, M Blockman, J Nel, G Maartens, H Rees, R Wiseman, K Jamaloodien, A G Parrish |
| Opportunistic pathogenic fungal co-infections are prevalent in critically ill COVID-19 patients: Are they risk factors for disease severity? | |
| O T Ezeokoli, C H Pohl |
| Implementing malaria control in South Africa, Eswatini and southern Mozambique during the COVID-19 pandemic | |
| B D Brooke, J Raman, J Frean, J Rundle, F Maartens, E Misiani, A Mabuza, K I Barnes, D P Moonasar, Q Madlamini, S Charles, L Blumberg |
| Prolonged treatment of COVID-19 pneumonia with high-flow nasal oxygen: A story of oxygen and resilience | |
| G G Audley, P Frankenfeld, S Dlamini, P Raubenheimer, J Hoare, L Cairncross, R van den Berg, M V Gule, G Calligaro |
Research
| COVID deaths in South Africa: 99 days since South Africa’s first death | |
| V Pillay-van Wyk, D Bradshaw, P Groenewald, I Seocharan, S Manda, R A Roomaney, O Awotiwon, T Nkwenika, G Gray, S S Buthelezi, Z L Mkhize |
| Postmortem lung biopsies from four patients with COVID-19 at a tertiary hospital in Cape Town, South Africa | |
| C Bruce-Brand, B W Allwood, C F N Koegelenberg, U Lalla, E Louw, A H Diacon, P T Schubert |