Tips and Tricks for Designing Better Patient Education Materials for People with CKD
Dr Kelly Lambert - Renal Society of Australasia
This webinar will discuss tips, tricks and mistakes to avoid when designing patient education materials for people with CKD. Learn best practice techniques and view some examples of well-designed materials.
Provider Behavior Change Implementation Kit (PART 4)
Heather Hancock
John Hopkins University Now that you have learned about provider behavior change, assessed barriers to quality Facility-based provider (FBP) service provision, and determined that SBCC has a role to play in addressing those barriers, you are ready to design an SBCC intervention for Facility-based provider (FBP) behavior change.
Teaching posture, handling and lifting in pregnancy
Marion Boulton and Jane Wake
The Royal College of Midwives During pregnancy, several things occur that work against maintaining a good posture and many women with healthy backs will begin to develop backache. The changing body shape alters the centre of gravity and the hormone relaxing causes laxity of muscles including the core stabilising muscles. Unless....
An Introduction to Research Content
Avon-Maree Reynolds
The Royal College of Midwives Welcome to An introduction to Research. The course is designed to provide an introduction to research skills and terminology. It is recommended that as you work through this course you undertake all the exercises and reflection set out in each section. You can set up a reflective journal for us....
Webinar: Health Literacy & Patient Knowledge: Implications for Renal Nurses
Prof Ann Bonner
This presentation will explain what is health literacy and why it is contextual. It will also argue for why health literacy is fundamental to renal nursing practice.
Webinar: Kidney Pancreas Transplant
Paul Robertson
For patients with both diabetes and kidney disease they are managing two chronic diseases and have high complication rates. Dual transplantation of both the pancreas and kidney offers excellent outcomes to manage both diseases, and is available in specialist centres in Australia.
Alcohol use disorder
Clinical Overviews
Alcohol use disorder is a problematic pattern of compulsive and uncontrolled alcohol use associated with clinically significant impairment or distress as defined by DSM-5 criteria. These COVID-19-related materials are provided for use at no charge as part of Elsevier’s efforts to support healthcare providers and patients. The....
Caring for the Patient with General Anxiety Disorder
Clinical Overviews
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused increased anxiety for many people around the world related to their health and the health of loved ones; additional responsibilities, such as child care and homeschooling; job and financial security; and social isolation. These COVID-19-related materials are provided for use at no charge as pa....
Understanding breastfeeding
Team of specialists
Medical Aid Films This film explains the importance of breastfeeding for at least the first six months after a baby is born, demonstrating the benefits to both the mother and the baby.
Understanding healthy eating during pregnancy
Team of specialists
Medical Aid Films This film explains how women can eat healthily during their pregnancy to ensure their own health and that of their child. This film is for use in community health education.
How to use the CRADLE VSA for non-pregnant patients
Team of specialists
Medical Aid Films A film introducing the CRADLE VSA device, outlining how to check blood pressure and heart rate in non-pregnant adults and the first steps to take if abnormal blood pressure / heart rates are shown. For additional films on using CRADLE VSA with pregnant patients, please visit: How to use the CRADLE VSA to d....
SNPs in IL4 and IFNG show no protective associations with human African trypanosomiasis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: a case-control study
Olivier Fataki Asina,Harry Noyes,Bruno Bucheton,Hamidou Ilboudo,Annette MacLeod,Dieudonné Mumba Ngoyi
Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), or sleeping sickness, is a neglected tropical disease caused by infection with extracellular blood protozoan parasites, which are transmitted by the bite of the tsetse fly (. The disease is present in more than 250 foci in Africa and nearly 70 million people are at risk of infection with the....
Wood-decaying fungi found in Southern Ghana: A potential source of new anti-infective compounds
Samuel Yaw Aboagye,Vincent Amarh,Paul A. Lartey,Patrick Kobina Arthur
Several plants and fungi have served as sources of many drugs that are used in clinics. A proportion of microbial pathogens that afflict mammals may possibly infect fungal species, since they are both eukaryotes with related cellular metabolism. Unlike mammals, fungi have a higher tendency to produce relevant chemical compounds....
Seroprevalence, risk factors and impact of Toxoplasma gondii infection on haematological parameters in the Ashanti region of Ghana: a cross-sectional study
Samuel Kekeli Agordzo,Kingsley Badu,Mathew Glover Addo,Christian Kwasi Owusu,Abdul-Hakim Mutala,Austine Tweneboah,Dawood Ackom Abbas,Nana Kwame Ayisi-Boateng
— the causative organism for toxoplasmosis — is an obligate, intracellular, apicomplexan parasite with a wide geographic distribution and the ability to infect virtually any cell type across a broad host range, including humans, companion animals, livestock and wildlife. People are typically infected by either accidentally inges....
Research into occupational noise induced hearing loss in South African large-scale mines: Access denied?
Nomfundo F. Moroe,Katijah Khoza-Shangase
The mining industry in South Africa remains one of the driving forces behind the development of the country’s economy. Currently, mining in South Africa is reported as a significant contributor to the economy in that firstly, it contributes an average of 20% to South Africa’s GDP. Secondly, it boasts a total annual income of nea....
Protective and curative effects of Beta vulgaris on pesticide dimethyl 2,2-dichlorovinyl phosphate-exposed albino rats
Eucharia O. Nwaichi,Eka B. Essien,Uzoamaka Chinonso Ibe
Organophosphates are a group of pesticides and are massively utilized globally due to their numerous benefits in the health and agricultural sectors. According to. Pesticide poisoning is commonly caused by the action of pesticides on mostly the internal organs of the body. Some pesticides that are referred to as external irritan....
REFRACTIVE ERROR
Kagumba Nicholas Musisi and Tanvi Shah
Emmetropia: a condition in which incident parallel light rays are focused on retinal photoreceptors Ammetropia: parallel light rays not focused on photoreptors of the retina under minimum accommodation
RETINOBLASTOMA
Dr Abubaker Kakinaki
Eye Health Africa https://eyehealthafrica.org/ Retinoblastoma is the most common primary intraocular malignancy of childhood and accounts for about 3% of all childhood cancers. Its of embryonal origin. Occurring up to 1:18000 live births.
CONGENITAL CATARACTS
Dr Abubaker Kakinaki
Eye Health Africa https://eyehealthafrica.org/ This course will describe the different aspects of cataracts: Pathophysiology Epidemiology Mortality/Morbidity Etiology Workup & Tx Complications Parents education
REFRACTIVE ERROR
Kagumba Nicholas Musisi and Tanvi Shah
Emmetropia: a condition in which incident parallel light rays are focused on retinal photoreceptors Ammetropia: parallel light rays not focused on photoreptors of the retina under minimum accommodation
CHILDHOOD BLINDNESS: RETINOPATHY OF PREMATURITY TRAUMA VITAMIN-A DEFICIENCY
Dr Joyce Chan
Eye Health Africa https://eyehealthafrica.org/ This course describes the CHILDHOOD BLINDNESS: RETINOPATHY OF PREMATURITY TRAUMA VITAMIN-A DEFICIENCY
RSA Webinar: Relevance of New Clinical Trials in Management of CKD
Professor Carol Pollock &
To provide front line staff with new knowledge re trials that have shown benefit in patients with diabetic and non-diabetic CKD. Secondarily to provide information regarding new trials underway in patients with kidney disease.
Self-management and its associated factors among people living with diabetes in Blantyre, Malawi: a cross-sectional study
Chimwemwe Kwanjo Banda,Belinda T. Gombachika,Moffat J. Nyirenda,Adamson Sinjani Muula
Diabetes mellitus significantly contributes to morbidity and mortality from non-communicable diseases in Malawi. Although the study by Cohen. The conceptual framework guiding the study was adapted from social cognitive theory (SCT) by Albert Banduran
Case Report: rare hybrid lesion of a central giant cell granuloma within a juvenile ossifying fibroma
Hadeer Rizk Saad,Noura M. Kamal,Hatem W. Amer
Central giant cell granuloma (CGCG) is believed to be an entity exclusive to jaw bones. The term “benign fibro-osseous lesions” generically describes an aggregate of pathologies that are characterized by replacement of normal bone with a highly cellular connective tissue associated with newly formed bone trabeculae. Radiographic....
Case Report: Neuroleptic malignant syndrome in a HIV-positive patient
Sibi Joseph,Jerry George,Mongezi Tau,Lourdes de Fatima Ibanez-Valdes,Thozama Dubula,Humberto Foyaca-Sibat
Most authors define neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) as a rare, yet life-threatening, idiosyncratic reaction to medications, mostly but not limited to neuroleptic drugs (dopamine receptor antagonists). NMS was initially described by Delay and colleagues in 1960, who noticed it in patients treated with high-potency antipsycho....