COVID-19 Primary Care Response in Low Resource Settings
The PCI Academy
Primary Care International This is a rapidly-evolving area and this information is a guide only, to help you think and plan ahead. If you have contact with a patient with, or concerned about, COVID-19, you must check the relevant national advice to ensure you are following the latest guidance and protocols.
Infection Prevention For Postpartum IUCD Services
JHPIEGO
Infection Prevention – practices and procedures that limit the transmission of infectious agents to patients, staff and the community.
Loss & Grief During COVID19
Dr. Catherine Syengo Mutisya, Consultant Psychiatrist
Grief is a normal phenomenom common to all of us. As we go through life, we experience a wide variety of losses for which we grieve.
COVID-19 Vaccines: Communication and Behaviour Change
Hospital for Sick Children ( SickKids) & GCNM
COVID-19 Vaccines: Communication and Behaviour Change features interactive activities on how to effectively communicate accurate and evidence-based information to address vaccine hesitancy with families, colleagues and communities. Important concepts on vaccines and how they work, efficacy and safety, vaccine schedule and post-a....
COVID-19: Child and Adolescent Health
Hospital for Sick Children ( SickKids) & GCNM
COVID-19: Child & Adolescent Health focuses on prevention and health promotion for children, adolescents and their families during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. The course features interactive activities on concepts important in the care of children, adolescents and families affected by COVID-19 and highlights the secondary....
Management of HIV during Pregnancy and the Post-Partum period
Dr. Chris Visser
Immediate linkage to patient-centred care and follow-up is required for all patients who have a positive HIV test during pregnancy or at the time of delivery. This presentation will outline the steps to follow when managing HIV during pregnancy and the postpartum period.
Conference Highlights: Anesthesiology 2016 for Surgeons
Chris Cole
0.5 Hours
New research was presented at Anesthesiology 2016, the annual meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, from October 22 to 26 in Chicago. The features below highlight some of the studies presented at the conference.
Conference Highlights: CROI 2017
Chris Cole, Physicians Weekly’s and AKH Staff and Planners
0.5 Hours
The annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) brings together top basic, translational, and clinical researchers from around the world to share the latest studies, important developments, and best research methods in the ongoing battle against HIV/AIDS and related infectious diseases. CROI is a global....
COVID-19 Vaccine Preparation And Administration
Dr. Maureen Akolo
This course intends to equip nurses with knowledge on vaccine preparation and administration
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.
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....