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Obstetrics and Gynaecology: Recent submissions
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(In House Publications, 2020-12)Babies born at the lower limits of viability have a poor prognosis in the South African setting. Neonatal intensive and high care units are overburdened, which leads to outbreaks of resistant organisms. An equitable set ...
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(AOSIS, 2020-02-17)Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy (HDP) are a leading obstetric cause for maternal morbidity and mortality nationally as well as globally. The Saving Mothers is a report published every three years by the National ...
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(In House Publications, 2020-07)Perineal trauma is a common consequence of vaginal childbirth. This may be spontaneous or an iatrogenic event following an episiotomy, or a combination of the two. One UK study states that up to 85% of women experience ...
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(In House Publications, 2020-12)AIM : To monitor the impact of the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic on use of maternal and reproductive health services, and maternal mortality. METHOD : Data from the District Health Information System (DHIS) was used ...
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(In House Publications, 2020-12)Maternal death as a result of suicide has been under-reported in South Africa for several reasons. The aim of this chapter is to identify all deaths from suicide reported to the NCCEMD during 2017 to 2019 coded in various ...
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(In House Publications, 2020-07)At the time of writing (24th August 2020), it has been over 5 months since the first case of COVID-19 was diagnosed in South Africa. Since then over 600,000 cases have been diagnosed in South Africa, of which over 13,000 ...
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(In House Publications, 2020-12)Maternal sepsis has always been amongst one of the direct leading causes of maternal mortality. This paper is focused on deaths due to Pregnancy Related Sepsis in viable pregnancies and highlights the summary of findings ...
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(In House Publications, 2020-12)Since 1999, seven triennial reports have been submitted by the South African National Committee for the Confidential Enquires into Maternal Deaths (NCCEMD) to the Minister of Health along with recommendations on methods ...
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(Medknow Publications, 2020-07)Cervical cancer is staged clinically using the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics staging system. Although lymph node status does not form part of the staging, it has important prognostic and potential ...
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(BMC, 2021-02)BACKGROUND: This study had a threefold aim: to test the value of stakeholder involvement in HTA to reduce evidence gaps and interpret findings; and to assess a medical device by applying the EUnetHTA Core Model (CM) in ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2020-07)The COVID-19 pandemic has placed healthcare resources around the world under immense pressure. South Africa, given the condition of its healthcare system, is particularly vulnerable. There has been much discussion around ...
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(World Health Organization, 2021-01)No abstract available.
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(World Health Organization, 2021)Despite progress in reduction in maternal deaths in South Africa, deaths due to complications of hypertension in pregnancy remain high at 26 deaths per 100 000 live births in 2016. The South African health ministry modified ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2020-12)Triage and rationing of scarce intensive care unit (ICU) resources are an unavoidable necessity. In routine circumstances, ICU triage is premised on the best interests of an individual patient; however, when increased ...
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(BMC, 2021-04)BACKGROUND: Cervical cancer treatment and care remains limited in Zimbabwe despite the growing burden of the disease among women. This study was aimed at investigating strategies to address barriers in accessing treatment and ...
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(South African Heart Association, 2020-11)Pregnancy and coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) share several common features which makes differentiation between the 2 difficult. Both are multisystem disorders, may present with breathlessness, are associated with ...
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Judicious use of personal protective equipment to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in maternity units (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2020-06)More than 300 women give birth in South Africa (SA) every day. An increasing number of midwives, obstetricians and gynaecologists have tested positive for COVID-19 in SA, and this has led to the closures of maternity units. ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2020-05)BACKGROUND : Inadequately controlled labour pain is associated with numerous deleterious physiological and psychological effects. Epidural labour analgesia is accepted as the gold standard. OBJECTIVES : To establish the ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2020-12)The COVID-19 pandemic is the biggest global disturbance in living memory. Much debate has focused on economic outlay to various communities or groups by governments and health services, including access to personal protective ...
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(NISC (Pty) Ltd, Medpharm Publications, and Informa UK Limited, 2020)BACKGROUND: A study was conducted to determine the accuracy of preoperative endometrial sampling histology type and tumour grade results compared with the final postoperative diagnosis. METHODS: This was a retrospective ...
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