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Management of a Patient with Foreign Body Ingestion at Ndola Teaching Hospital, Zambia
Foreign body (FB) ingestion refers to intentional swallowing of indigestible, non-nutritious solid substances. It is more common in children and psychiatry adult patients. Adult psychiatry patien...
Management of patient with a ruptured pancreatic pseudocyst...a Teaching Hospital, Zambia: Case report and literature review
A pancreatic pseudocyst (PP) is a localized collection of pancreatic juice in pancreatic tissue or peripancreatic space reach, in amylase and other enzymes, surrounded by a cyst wall composed of ...
Diagnostic Imaging of Non-Accidental Injury and Percutaneous Foreign Bodies: A Case Report from Zambia
This case report presents the role imagingplayed in the diagnosis and surgical removal of multiple percutaneous foreign bodies in a 5-year-old child who presented with non-accidental injuries (...
Mental Health Research in Namibia: A scoping Review of Literature
BACKGROUND: Mental disorders contribute significantly to the global burden of diseases affecting about 30% of the population. In Namibia, there has been very little research on mental health to i...
Image Interpretation and Reporting by Radiographers in Afri...ngs from the Literature Review and their Application to Zambia
BACKGROUND: The need for having reporting radiographers has been a part of the discussion in the last decade in Zambia. This is due to acritical shortage of radiologists, an increase in demand ...
Head and Neck Lymphatic Malformation Management Algorithm: An Experience from a Tertiary Centre in Tanzania
BACKGROUND: Lymphatic malformations are localized areas of malformed lymphatic system that can either be congenital or acquired which commonly occur in the head and neck region. Several treatment...
Sedation of Children undergoing Magnetic Resonance Imaging ...Resource Poor Setting using low doses of Ketamine and Diazepam
We aimed to describe the successful use of low doses of ketamine hydrochloride with diazepam premedication to sedate children with ages between 3days to five years who presented at three diagno...
Effectiveness of Cefotaxime in the prevention of surgical s...al surgery at the University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia
INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES: Inguinal operations are the most performed surgeries in children. There is a divergent view on use of pre-operative antibiotic prophylaxis to prevent Surgical site in...
The Interactions of Public Health Organisational Leadership...Study of the Sally Mugabe Central Hospital in Harare, Zimbabwe
INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND: This paper presents a case study from Sally Mugabe Central Hospital; that examines the interactions of public health organisational leadership with its environment, w...
Geo-Spatial Distribution of Frequencies of MTB/RIF Detected...ing Health Facilities in Manicaland Zimbabwe for 2017 and 2018
OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to produce Geo Spatial Distribution of Frequencies of MTB/RIF Detected Specimens based on Requesting Health Facilities in Manicaland Zimbabwe for 2017 and ...
Phytochemical Studies and Blood Glucose Lowering Effect of ...>Piliostigma thonningii in Alloxan - Induced Diabetic Rats
BACKGROUND: There is anecdotal evidence among some Zambian traditional medicine practitioners that Piliostigma thonningii possesses antidiabetic effects. This study assessed the in-vivo antidiabe...