Table of Contents
Cover
Cover | |
Contents
Contents | |
1056-1057 |
From the Editor
Vulnerability to disease: Look to the future | |
B Farham | 1058 |
Correspondence
New cholesterol targets for patients at high or very high cardiovascular risk and the indications for PCSK9 inhibitors | |
E Q Klug, F J Raal | 1059 |
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 | 1060 |
Modified full-face snorkel masks as personal protective equipment for COVID-19 in South Africa | |
L van Wyk, P Goussard, W A J Meintjes | 1061 |
Maximising health science student volunteers for the COVID-19 response: A valuable resource | |
S Verhage, I Kim, S Ndereya, K Begg, V Zweigenthal, K Fieggen, L Wallis, S Reid, J Irlam, N Ntusi, J Peter | 1062-1063 |
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 | 1064 |
Book reviews
Foundations of Global Health & Human Rights. Ed. by Lawrence O Gostin and Benjamin Mason Meier. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. ISBN: 9780197528297 | |
Y Guidozzi, N Erasmus | 1065 |
Editorial
Dangers of smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol during pregnancy | |
H J Odendaal, M Kruger, M H Botha | 1066-1067 |
Research imperialism resurfaces in South Africa in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic – this time, via a digital portal | |
K Moodley | 1068-1069 |
Reflections for global public health research and evidence-based medicine during the COVID-19 pandemic | |
E L Davids | 1070-1071 |
In Practice
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 Dlamini, S Charles, L Blumberg | 1072-1076 |
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 | 1077-1080 |
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 | 1081-1085 |
Handmaidens and pioneers: Three female anaesthetists and their contribution to anaesthesia in South Africa | |
C Gordon, P C Gordon | 1088-1092 |
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 | 1093-1099 |
Smoking and drinking habits of women in subsequent pregnancies after specific advice about the dangers of these exposures during pregnancy | |
H J Odendaal, L T Brink, D G Nel, E Carstens, M de Jager, M Potter, C du Plessis, C A Groenewald | 1100-1104 |
A rapid review of the effectiveness of screening practices at airports, land borders and ports to reduce the transmission of respiratory infectious diseases such as COVID-19 | |
T Chetty, B B Daniels, N K Ngandu, A Goga | 1105-1109 |
Trauma patterns during the COVID-19 lockdown in South Africa expose vulnerability of women | |
A Zsilavecz, H Wain, J L Bruce, M T D Smith, W Bekker, G L Laing, E Lutge, D L Clarke | 1110-1112 |
A descriptive analysis of the effect of the national COVID-19 lockdown on the workload and case mix of patients presenting to a district-level emergency centre in Cape Town, South Africa | |
C Hendrikse, M Parak, D J van Hoving | 1113-1118 |
The effect of lockdown regulations on SARS-CoV-2 infectivity in Gauteng Province, South Africa | |
J Pillai, P Motloba, K S C Motaung, L U Ozougwu, B K Ikalafeng, E Marinda, M Lukhele, D Basu | 1119-1123 |
Let’s get physical: A prospective pedometer study of doctors working in a South African emergency department | |
C B Beringer, M Wells, L N Goldstein | 1124-1127 |
Vitamin D levels in patients admitted to the intensive care unit and the association with organ dysfunction and glutamine levels | |
F Seedat, G K Schleicher, P Gaylard, R Blaauw | 1128-1133 |
Unrecognised postoperative residual curarisation in developing countries remains a common problem | |
S Chetty, S Hassim, H Perrie, J Scribante, M Parker | 1134-1138 |
CPD
CPD Questions | |