Table of Contents
Cover
Cover | |
Contents
Contents | |
356-357 |
From the Editor
Caring for the mentally ill | |
B Farham | 358 |
Correspondence
Rabies - ghastly deaths are vaccine preventable | |
A Khan | 359 |
Palliative care for drug-resistant tuberculosis: An urgent call to action | |
T Govender, S Naidoo, N Padayatchi, L Gwyther | 360 |
Izindaba
30 days in medicine | |
361 |
Editorial
Unpacking Recommendation 16 of the Health Ombud’s report on the Life Esidimeni tragedy | |
L J Robertson, B Janse van Rensburg, M Talatala, C Chambers, C Sunkel, B Patel, S Stevenson | 362-363 |
Back-to-the-future potential for autochthonous transmission of Aedes aegypti-transmitted viruses in eThekwini and urban coastal KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa | |
P Rotz | 364-366 |
Continuing Medical Education
Perioperative evaluation of patients who are due to undergo surgery | |
N Ntusi | 367-368 |
A practical approach to managing diabetes in the perioperative period | |
L du Toit, T Biesman-Simons, N Levy, J A Dave | 369-375 |
Point-of-care and lung ultrasound incorporated in daily practice | |
E Neethling, F Roodt, C Beck, J L C Swanevelder | 376-381 |
In Practice
The Life Esidimeni tragedy: Moral pathology and an ethical crisis | |
A Dhai | 382-385 |
Co-infection with Streptococcus pneumoniae and Listeria monocytogenes in an immunocompromised patient | |
C J Opperman, C Bamford | 386-388 |
Fulminant hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in an infant following mother-to-child transmission of an e-minus HBV mutant: Time to relook at HBV prophylaxis in South African infants | |
B Ogunbosi, H Smuts, B Eley, S Korsman, R de Lacy, D R Hardie | 389-392 |
Review
Fanconi anaemia in South Africa: Past, present and future | |
C Feben, T Wainstein, J Kromberg, F Essop, A Krause | 393-398 |
Research
Differentiating Crohn’s disease from intestinal tuberculosis at presentation in patients with tissue granulomas | |
G Watermeyer, S Thomson | 399-402 |
The ‘ins and outs’ of faecal microbiota transplant for recurrent Clostridium difficile diarrhoea at Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa | |
S Lee, K Drennan, G Simons, A Hepple, K Karlsson, W Lowman, P C Gaylard, L McNamara, J Fabian | 403-407 |
Incidence of myocardial injury after non-cardiac surgery: Experience at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa | |
E Coetzee, B M Biccard, R A Dyer, N D Meyersfeld, C Chishala, B M Mayosi | 408-412 |
A raised serum lactate level is an independent predictor of in-hospital mortality in patients with isolated cerebral gunshot wounds | |
V Y Kong, R D Weale, G L Laing, J L Bruce, G V Oosthuizen, B Sartorius, P Brysiewicz, D L Clarke | 413-417 |
Healthcare-associated infections in paediatric and neonatal wards: A point prevalence survey at four South African hospitals | |
C Olivier, H Kunneke, N O'Connell, E von Delft, M Wates, A Dramowski | 418-422 |
The costs and outcomes of paediatric tuberculosis treatment at primary healthcare clinics in Johannesburg, South Africa | |
E P Budgell, D Evans, R Leuner, L Long, S Rosen | 423-431 |
Short-term outcomes of down-referral in provision of paediatric antiretroviral therapy at Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa: A retrospective cohort study | |
J Copelyn, P Apolles, M-A Davies, B Eley | 432-438 |
Assessing the value of Western Cape Provincial Government health administrative data and electronic pharmacy records in ascertaining medicine use during pregnancy | |
U Mehta, A Heekes, E Kalk, A Boulle | 439-443 |
CPD
CPD questionnaire | |