Telemedicine has emerged as a valuable tool for medical training, now more than ever. It involves exchanging
healthcare or healthcare information digitally across large distances. This form of teaching has become more
common due to significant…
Introduction: Trauma training for front-line providers is a critical component of injury mitigation and trauma
systems strengthening. Although the Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) course is standard in much of the
world, cost and administrative…
Kenya is a rapidly developing country with a growing economy and evolving health care system. In the decade
since the last publication on the state of emergency care in Kenya, significant developments have occurred in the
country's approach to…
Introduction: Research studies on emergency care in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) face many ethical
considerations, including obtaining valid informed consent from vulnerable patients. This study aims to describe
the body of literature…
Introduction: The world's population is aging and this trend is also seen in South Africa. This increase will
invariably affect acute care services. The geriatric population attending emergency centres have not been
described in the South African…
Introduction: A bi-institutional partnership between physicians at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia and the
University of Toronto, Canada led the development and implementation of a novel emergency medicine (EM)
postgraduate training program at…
Most countries in Sub-Saharan Africa have struggled to utilize health information technology and thus lack in
accurate patient data. This paper describes the method of collecting patient data and patient characteristics in an
emergency centre in…
Introduction: Community assault is an interpersonal violence frequently seen in the emergency centres around
South Africa. Its aim is to inflict serious injuries to a suspected perpetrator. Data has not been published in
Mamelodi Regional Hospital…
Introduction: Stroke mortality and its predictors are important outcome measures in stroke epidemiological
studies and clinical trials. There is an observed paucity of data regarding the clinical presentations and predictors
of stroke mortality in…