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pro vyhledávání: '"Clint Hendrikse"'
Publikováno v:
African Journal of Emergency Medicine, Vol 14, Iss 4, Pp 268-272 (2024)
Introduction: Suicidal behaviour is a public health emergency, causing an estimated one million deaths globally each year. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on suicidal behaviour is not fully understood. This study aimed to describe the impact of t
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https://doaj.org/article/02e947a5494d4cb08cd75cd750eb110f
Publikováno v:
African Journal of Emergency Medicine, Vol 14, Iss 2, Pp 65-69 (2024)
Introduction: Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a significant global cause of mortality, ranking third after myocardial infarction and stroke. ECG findings may play a valuable role in the prognostication of patients with PE, with various ECG abnormalities p
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https://doaj.org/article/8a62222ebfd140d88849ac219a6fc1b8
Publikováno v:
African Journal of Emergency Medicine, Vol 13, Iss 4, Pp 287-292 (2023)
Introduction: Triage is the most important step in patients’ journey through an Emergency Centre (EC) and directly impacts time to critical actions. Triage tools, like the South African Triage Scale, are however not designed to predict patient outc
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https://doaj.org/article/d7f39ae56d17451c914ef2f370d9f9ec
Publikováno v:
African Journal of Emergency Medicine, Vol 12, Iss 4, Pp 366-372 (2022)
Introduction: The burden of stroke in Africa has increased in the last two decades, with the population undergoing a rapid epidemiological transition, with a rise in the incidence of stroke risk factors together with the gradual aging of the populati
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https://doaj.org/article/62799a19116b49baaef47f62d85fcb10
Publikováno v:
African Journal of Emergency Medicine, Vol 12, Iss 3, Pp 252-258 (2022)
Introduction: Emergency centres are most often the point of entry to the healthcare system for patients presenting with emergencies. Even though emergency medicine has developed rapidly in certain regions of South Africa, it is yet to flourish in the
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https://doaj.org/article/232cd790b33449ebb0bbf3422bf2da50
Publikováno v:
African Journal of Emergency Medicine, Vol 12, Iss 3, Pp 264-269 (2022)
Introduction: Appropriate and efficient staffing is a cornerstone of emergency centre performance. There is however a paucity of literature describing clinician output in low- and middle-income countries with current staffing models based on anecdota
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https://doaj.org/article/4f4e4828ca0f4982b79da06df632fb96
Publikováno v:
South African Journal of Psychiatry, Vol 29, Iss 0, Pp e1-e9 (2023)
Background: The process of medical clearance aims to exclude a general medical condition as an underlying cause for mental and behavioural disorders and involves routine screening with special investigations. Current evidence, however, suggests that
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https://doaj.org/article/1d6482c48f584e59ae9bc93bbcea9c02
Autor:
Craig A. Wylie, Farzana Araie, Clint Hendrikse, Jan Burke, Ivan Joubert, Anneli Hardy, Willem Stassen
Publikováno v:
BMC Emergency Medicine, Vol 22, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2022)
Abstract Introduction Prehospital advanced airway management, including endotracheal intubation (ETI), is one of the most commonly performed advanced life support skills. In South Africa, prehospital ETI is performed by non-physician prehospital prov
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https://doaj.org/article/cf52826e6aaa423192636027a66d7431
Publikováno v:
African Journal of Emergency Medicine, Vol 11, Iss 4, Pp 477-482 (2021)
Introduction: The South African government enforced various alcohol sale restrictions during the COVID-19 lockdown in order to reduce hospital admissions related to alcohol-associated injuries. A cross-sectional study was performed to describe the te
Externí odkaz:
https://doaj.org/article/ce5dae7aefa94cef953f9aa88d61d2fe
Publikováno v:
African Journal of Emergency Medicine, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 39-45 (2021)
Introduction: Cerebrovascular disease remains one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality globally. In South Africa, it was the fourth leading cause of death in 2016, responsible for 5.1% of all deaths - the leading cause of death in individ
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https://doaj.org/article/b47fab9298394d3bbd3c1271dc249f00