Table of Contents
Cover
Cover | |
Contents
Contents | |
62-63 |
From the Editor
The blame game | |
B Farham | 64 |
Correspondence
Manuscripts not suitable for general readership of the South African Medical Journal | |
G Joubert, T Mulder, W J Steinberg, J Botes; response from the Editor | 65 |
Latest results show urgent need to address child restraint use | |
C Clay, A B van As, K Hunter, M Peden | 66 |
Book reviews
This Is How It Is: True Stories from South Africa. Published by Life Righting Collective. Johannesburg: Jacana Media, 2018. ISBN: 978-1-928232-56-8 | |
J Giddy | 67 |
Editorial
Success brings new challenges in circumcision campaign | |
P S Millard, N Goldstuck | 68 |
Continuing Medical Education
Evolving concepts of stroke and stroke management in South Africa: Quo vadis? | |
A Taylor, N A B Ntusi | 69-71 |
Medical management of acute ischaemic stroke | |
K Bateman | 72-76 |
Mechanical thrombectomy for acute ischaemic stroke | |
R Harrichandparsad | 77-80 |
Post-stroke rehabilitation | |
S Whitehead, E Baalbergen | 81-83 |
In Practice
Reimagining liver transplantation in South Africa: A model for justice, equity and capacity building – the Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre experience | |
S Tager, H R Etheredge, J Fabian, J F Botha | 84-88 |
Life-threatening hyperkalaemia due to trimethoprim in a patient treated for Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia | |
N du Plooy, B Rayner | 89-90 |
Atypical presentation of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever: Lessons learned | |
H J Krüger, R de Wet, L H Blumberg, J Weyer, F G Lemke | 91-94 |
Research
Midwife-led obstetric units working ‘CLEVER’: Improving perinatal outcome indicators in a South African health district | |
S J Oosthuizen, A-M Bergh, J Grimbeek, R C Pattinson | 95-101 |
The association between preterm labour, perinatal mortality and infant death (during the first year) in Bishop Lavis, Cape Town, South Africa | |
L T Brink, G S Gebhardt, D Mason, C A Groenewald, H J Odendaal | 102-106 |
Factors related to hospital readmissions in people with spinal cord injury in South Africa | |
M K Mashola, S A S Olorunju, J Mothabeng | 107-111 |
Validation and effect on diabetes control of glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) point-of-care testing | |
S Pillay, C M Aldous, D Singh, D Pillay | 112-115 |
Mortality among older patients admitted to the medical wards of Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa, 2010 - 2013 | |
L A Adebusoye, S Z Kalula | 116-121 |
Four-year review of admissions to a South African regional hospital general surgery department | |
J Pape, O Swart, R Duvenage | 122-126 |
A retrospective review on benzodiazepine use: A case study from a chronic dispensary unit | |
I Singh, F Oosthuizen | 127-132 |
CPD
CPD questionnaire | |