Preoperative anxiety potentially results in perioperative anaesthetic complications. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of preoperative anxiety in adult patients scheduled to undergo elective orthopaedic surgery at an academic hospital in South Africa and identify contributory factors.
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Background: There is enormous pool of unmet need for inguinal hernia (IH) repair in our environment due to numerous factors against elective repair. This has led to a large number of patients presenting emergently with complications. The aim of this study is to document the epidemiology and outcome of su...
BACKGROUND: Maternity Waiting Homes are houses built in the healthcare settings that lodge pregnant women in their term state of pregnancy to prevent labor and delivery-related complication. This study aimed to estimate the extent of pregnant women’s intention to use Maternal Waiting Homes and identify...
Obstetric spinal anaesthesia is routinely used in South African district hospitals for caesarean sections, providing better maternal and neonatal outcomes than general anaesthesia in appropriate patients. However, practitioners providing anaesthesia in this context are usually generalists who practise an...
Ureteroscopy is a major diagnostic and therapeutic technique for lesions of the ureter and intrarenal collecting system.
METHODS: A retrospective chart review was done at St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College, Ethiopia to determine the outcome of ureteroscopy and factors affecting it. The stu...
