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Jurnal Internasional Afrika vol.12 issue 4 2022
African Journal of Emergency Medicine
Patients requiring palliative care attending a regional hospital emergency centre in South Africa: A descriptive study
Background: : Globally, emergency centers (ECs) face increasing patients with palliative care (PC) needs. This is also true for South Africa. Factors include an increasingly older population, rising rates of non-communicable and infectious diseases.…
Jurnal Internasional Afrika vol.12 issue 4 2022
African Journal of Emergency Medicine
Performance of the South African triage score among HIV positive individuals presenting to an emergency department
Introduction: Over a quarter of patients presenting to South African Emergency Centres (EC) have concurrent human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), yet it is unclear how this impacts their presenting complaints, the severity of illness, and overall…
Jurnal Internasional Afrika vol.12 issue 4 2022
African Journal of Emergency Medicine
Prevalence and correlates of depression and substance use disorders in emergency department populations: A cross-sectional study at East Africa’s largest public hospital
Introduction: There are persistent gaps in screening, identification, and access to care for common mental disor- ders in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. An initial step towards reducing this gap is identifying the prevalence, co-morbidities, and…
Jurnal Internasional Afrika vol.12 issue 4 2022
African Journal of Emergency Medicine
Prevalence and presentation of neonatal sepsis at a paediatric emergency department in Johannesburg, South Africa
Background: Despite a significant reduction in the prevalence of neonatal sepsis over the past three decades, the prevalence still remains high, especially in low- and middle-income countries. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and…
Jurnal Internasional Afrika vol.12 issue 4 2022
African Journal of Emergency Medicine
Streamlining referral decisions for childhood poisoning: a cross-sectional study from a tertiary children’s hospital in Cape Town, South Africa
Introduction: The study objectives were to report on current paediatric poisoning figures from South Africa, and to better understand this patient population to contribute suggestions for streamlining local triage and referral criteria. Methods: A…
Jurnal Internasional Afrika vol.12 issue 4 2022
African Journal of Emergency Medicine
Ten years of the community-based emergency first aid responder (EFAR) system in the Western Cape of South Africa: What has happened, what has changed, and what has been learned
The emergency first aid responder (EFAR) system was designed as a low-cost and adaptable community-based prehospital
emergency care system, and was first published after conducting a study in the township of Manenberg,
South Africa, in 2010. EFARs…
emergency care system, and was first published after conducting a study in the township of Manenberg,
South Africa, in 2010. EFARs…
Jurnal Internasional Afrika vol.12 issue 4 2022
African Journal of Emergency Medicine
The lived experiences of emergency care personnel in the Western Cape, South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal hermeneutic phenomenological study
In March 2020, the World Health Organisation declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. Shortly after the first case of COVID-19 was reported in South Africa, the Western Cape province experienced a rapid growth in the number of cases, establishing it as…
Jurnal Internasional Afrika vol.12 issue 4 2022
African Journal of Emergency Medicine
Training, knowledge, experience and perceptions regarding cardiopulmonary resuscitation of doctors at an academic hospital in central South Africa
Background: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) improves immediate survival and survival to discharge in patients with cardiac arrest in hospital. Without frequent retraining in CPR, healthcare providers may lose their skills and knowledge earlier…