Critical Care Bundles
Beth Waweru
This short course aims to enhance ICU nurses knowledge on use of care bundles in effective management of ICU patients.
Renal Morphology, Blood Supply and Glomerular Filtration
Clifford Dwenger
0.5 Hours
This session introduces you to the overall structure of the functional elements of the kidney and their blood supply, as well as providing an overview of glomerular filtration.
Advising on Fitness for Work and Supporting Rehabilitation
Debbie Cohen
0.50 Hours
This session focuses on assessing fitness for work and advising patients with health problems about returning to work or remaining in work.
Renal Failure Diagnosis and Management
Clarisa Choh and Ramesh B Naik
0.5 Hours
This session outlines the definition and common causes of acute and chronic renal failure. By the end of the session you should be able to list the common causes of renal failure and describe how renal failure should be managed.
Nettoyage du matériel de réanimation à la vapeur
GHM
Cleaning Resuscitation Equipment with Steam - Nettoyage du matériel de réanimation à la vapeur
Cardiopulmonary Disease: Obstructive Airway Disease
Luke J Rogers
0.5 Hours
This session will provide a brief overview of obstructive airway disease.
Counselling for Post-Partum Family Planning
Industry Specialists
This video will offer a comprehensive explanation into counselling for post-partum family planning.
Diabetic Kidney Disease
Anoop Kumar Agrawal General Practitioner
0.5 Hours
Diabetes can affect many organs, including the kidneys. In this session, we discuss diabetic renal disease and its diagnosis and management in primary care.
Adrenal Disease and Steroid Replacement Therapy
Mark Heining
0.5 Hours
This session will review the applied physiology and pharmacology of the adrenal gland, with the implications for anaesthetizing patients for adrenalectomy.
Sickle Cell Disease: Genetics and Diagnostics
By The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and Ghana College of Nurses and Midwives
Sickle Cell Disease in Ghana: Genetics and Diagnostics is a course that provides healthcare workers with a foundational understanding of sickle cell disease. The course features interactive content that will explain what sickle cell disease is and the genetics underlying this inherited blood disorder. Finally, the importance of....
Wear assessment of current aesthetic crowns compared with human enamel after two finishing procedures: In vitro study
Ahmed M. Sha'aban,Gihan A. El Naggar,Rasha Nabil,Mohamed A. Rashad,Yara S. Attia
Wear of teeth is considered one of the most important issues when choosing a dental ceramic. The repeated incidence of veneer chipping with bilayered restorations has prompted the development of monolithic restorations fabricated from high strength ceramicsn
HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B coinfections in Mkushi, Zambia: a cross-sectional study
Cibangu Katamba,Theresa Chungu,Chisali Lusale
Hepatitis B virus, together with syphilis and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), are important public health challenges worldwide. It is estimated that about a million sexually transmitted infections are acquired daily throughout the world. HIV is associated with a higher prevalence of both HBV and Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) in Su....
Screening tuberculosis patients for diabetes mellitus in a routine program setting in Kampala, Uganda: a cross-sectional study
Joseph Nsonga,John Paul Dongo,Frank Mugabe,Gerald Mutungi,Richard Walyomo,Christopher Oundo,Sarah Zalwango,Daniel Okello,Simon Muchuro,Riitta A Dlodlo,Yan Lin
Although significant progress has been achieved in tuberculosis (TB) care and prevention during the past decades, TB remains a major public health problem and is responsible for more deaths than any other single infectious disease worldwide. Along with socio-economic development, urbanization, dietary and lifestyle changes, the....
Effects of aflatoxin B1 on the submandibular salivary gland of albino rats and possible therapeutic potential of Rosmarinus officinalis: a light and electron microscopic study
Bassant Ashraf,Dahlia Ghazy,Mohamed Shamel
Aflatoxins are naturally-occurring mycotoxins produced by the fungi. t Of the 20 types, Aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) is considered to be the most toxic. AFB1 toxicity was reported to lead to severe health issues such as cancer, growth retardation, and immunosuppression. In this regard, the International Agency for Research on Cancer clas....
Clinical characteristics and predictors of the duration of hospital stay in COVID-19 patients in Jordan
Rami S. Alqassieh,Isam K. Bsisu,Mohammed Qussay Al-Sabbagh,Naser M. El-Hammuri,Moh’d A. Yousef,Mohammad A. El Jarbeh,Ahmed A. Sharqawi,Heba Z. Smadi,Sami A. Abu-Halaweh,Mohammad M. Abufaraj
In December, China reported a group of pneumonia cases of unknown etiology that were later identified to be caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Coronaviruses belong to viral family. Initial assessments of the epidemiologic characteristics and transmission dynamics showed that the basic reprodu....
Precision medicine implementation and research-practice partnerships: implications of measurement scale differential item functioning
John J. O. Mogaka,Moses J. Chimbari
Recent advances in omics technologies offer greater understandings of how gene-environment interactions affect health and pathological processes. Omics-based biomarkers (OBMs) resulting from advances in biomedical technologies form the basis of precision medicine (PM), an approach to medicine that emphasizes predictive, preventi....
Malaria management in children with fever in rural Sierra Leone. Has anything changed after the Ebola outbreak?
Joseph Bangalie Sesay,Olga Denisiuk,Katrina Hann,Rony Zachariah,Francis Lionel Moses,Umaru Dumbuya
A cross-sectional study conducted in 2017. Although the post-Ebola period was included in this evaluation, it was for a relatively short period (six months) which was probably too soon to gauge health system recovery. At the primary healthcare level in the same district and among children under five, we thus performed a new anal....
Needle lost in the haystack: multiple reaction monitoring fails to detect Treponema pallidum candidate protein biomarkers in plasma and urine samples from individuals with syphilis
Geert A. Van Raemdonck,Kara K. Osbak,Xaveer Van Ostade,Chris R. Kenyon
hPTPs Isotopically labelled proteotypic surrogate peptides. LOD Limit of detection. MSM Men who have sex with men. PCR Polymerase chain reaction. TPPA Treponema pallidum Particle Agglutination test. RPR Rapid plasma reagin test. COG Clusters of Orthologous Groups. FA ....
Pneumococcal nasopharyngeal carriage and antimicrobial susceptibility profile in children under five in southern Ethiopia
Siraj Hussen,Solomon Asnake,Demelash Wachamo,Birkneh Tilahun Tadesse
EDHS = Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia, PCV = pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, NP = nasopharyngeal, STGG = skim milk tritons glucose glycerol, and n
HIV treatment and monitoring patterns in routine practice: a multi-country retrospective chart review of patient care
Baba M Musa,Everistus Ibekwe,Stanley Mwale,Daniel Eurien,Catherine Oldenburg,Gary Chung,Richard F Heller
In addition to choice of appropriate drugs, best practice management of patients with HIV requires monitoring response to treatment and disease progression. This includes tracking clinical immunological, and virological data on patients at diagnosis and on follow-up. There is a rich literature guiding HIV treatment, and guidelin....
Interfacial microscopic examination and chemical analysis of resin-dentin interface of self-adhering flowable resin composite
Tamer M. Hamdy
Adhesive dentistry has seen a paradigm shift from the invasive to be minimally invasive, due to a revolution in bonding systems. There are great demands for simplified restorative materials. A new self-adhering flowable resin composite (Vertise™ Flow Self-Adhering Flowable Composite, Kerr Dental, USA), was recently introduced on....
Andrographolide, isolated from Andrographis paniculata, induces apoptosis in monocytic leukemia and multiple myeloma cells via augmentation of reactive oxygen species production
Hiroki Doi,Taei Matsui,Johannes M. Dijkstra,Atsushi Ogasawara,Yuki Higashimoto,Seiji Imamura,Tamae Ohye,Hiromu Takematsu,Itsuro Katsuda,Hidehiko Akiyama
Many plant-derived products possess a potential for use in chemotherapy. For example, vincristine (VCR) and vinblastine—two natural alkaloids isolated from. Andro has been shown to have anti-tumor activities against solid and hematopoietic tumor cell lines, established from colon-, gastric-, liver-, breast-, and prostatic cancer....
Willingness-to-pay for a hypothetical Ebola vaccine in Indonesia: A cross-sectional study in Aceh
Mudatsir Mudatsir,Samsul Anwar,Jonny Karunia Fajar,Amanda Yufika,Muhammad N. Ferdian,Salwiyadi Salwiyadi,Aga S. Imanda,Roully Azhars,Darul Ilham,Arya U. Timur,Juwita Sahputri,Ricky Yordani,Setia Pramana,Yogambigai Rajamoorthy,Abram L. Wagner,Kurnia F. Jam
Ebola virus disease (EVD), formerly called as Ebola hemorrhagic fever, is a disease characterized by high mortality in human populations. EVD is a highly fatal disease and can be economically burdensome in affected countries. The case fatality rate of EVD ranges from 25% to 100%, with an average of approximately 68%. Development....
Cytotoxic T cells response with decreased CD4/CD8 ratio during mammary tumors inhibition in rats induced by non-contact electric fields
Firman Alamsyah,Rarastoeti Pratiwi,Nisrina Firdausi,Jessica Irene Mesak Pello,Subekti Evi Dwi Nugraheni,Ahmad Ghitha Fadhlurrahman,Luthfi Nurhidayat,Warsito Purwo Taruno
Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in the world, with one in eight women being at risk of developing it. Skin toxicity or dermatitis arises in electric field therapy due to prolonged direct contact between the electrodes and the skin. Cancer therapy that can re-induce immune response to destroy and clean up tumo....