Table of Contents
Cover
Cover | |
Contents
Contents page | |
From the Editor
The extraordinary story of the life after death of Henrietta Lacks | |
Daniel J Ncayiyana | 141 |
Editor's choice
Editor's Choice | |
J P van Niekerk | 143 |
Correspondence
Failing Emergency Medical services | |
Michael Morris | 146 |
Restraint use for child passengers in South Africa | |
Julie Kling, Thomas Nicholls, Pumla Ntambeka, A B (Sebastian) van As | 146 |
Maternal and perinatal health | |
J V Larsen | 146,148 |
‘Off-key’ note speakers | |
Savvas Andronikou | 148 |
Izindaba
Unbowed respect for tradition saves countless initiates lives | |
150-151 |
Fix the damn system!’– Johannesburg’s tertiary hospital doctors | |
152-,154-156 |
‘We didn’t ‘strip’ medical aid reserves’ – Sanlam CEO | |
157-158 |
Forum
The 11P’s of an Afrocentric trauma system for South Africa – time for action! | |
Timothy Hardcastle | 160,162 |
Position statement: Pre-hospital rapid sequence intubation | |
Christopher Stein, Martin Botha, Efraim Kramer, Daniel Nevin, Roger Dickerson, Lara Goldstein, Mike Wells, Dagmar Muhlbauer, Craig Vincent-Lambert | 163 |
Disclosure of child murder: A case study of ethical dilemmas in research | |
Yandisa Msimelelo Sikweyiya, Rachel Jewkes | 164,168 |
Obituaries
George Trevor Nurse | |
Trefor Jenkins | 170 |
Editorial
Trauma care in South Africa - a call to arms | |
Lee A Wallis | 171 |
Scientific letters
Assessment of safe endotracheal tube cuff pressures in emergency care - time for change? | |
Christopher Stein, Gary Berkowitz, Efraim Kramer | 172-173 |
The rat lung-worm Angiostrongylus cantonensis: A first report in South Africa | |
C E Archer, C C Appleton, S Mukaratirwa, K J Hope | 174-175 |
Original articles
Direct admission versus inter-hospital transfer to a level I trauma unit improves survival: An audit of the new Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital trauma unit | |
S Cheddie, D J J Muckart, T C Hardcastle, D Den Hollander, H Cassimjee, S Moodley | 176-178 |
Is universal coverage via social health insurance financially feasible in Swaziland? | |
Inke Mathauer, Laurent Musango, Sibusiso Sibandze, Khosi Mthethwa, Guy Carrin | 179-183 |
Phaeochromocytoma in black South Africans – a 30-year audit | |
K R L Huddle | 184-188 |
Guidelines
Guideline for the assessment of trauma centres for South Africa | |
Timothy Craig Hardcastle, Elmin Steyn, Kenneth Boffard, Jaques Goosen, Mande Toubkin, Andre Loubser, Denis Allard, Steve Moeng, David Muckart, Petra Brysiewicz, Lee Wallis | 189-194 |
Procedural sedation in the emergency centre | |
M Stander, L A Wallis | 195-201 |
CPD
CPD Questionnaire | |