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Table of Contents
Cover
| Cover | |
Contents
| Contents | |
| 350-351 |
From the Editor
| Big pharma under the spotlight | PDF HTML |
| Bridget Farham | 352 |
Editor's choice
| Editor's Choice | PDF HTML |
| Janet Seggie | 353 |
Correspondence
| Thieves of the state and the South African Medical Association | PDF HTML |
| Robert Ian Caldwell | 354 |
| Excuse me, there is an 'elephant in the room' | PDF HTML |
| Paul Porteous | 354-355 |
| A new algorithm for the diagnosis of all forms of tuberculosis is required for South Africa | PDF HTML |
| Andrew Black | 355-356 |
| Continuing danger of glucose point-of-care test devices in the neonatal setting | PDF HTML |
| Tahir S Pillay, Magdalena J Turzyniecka | 356 |
| Chesed Children’s Clinic: A non-profit, paediatric primary care outreach clinic in the Eastern Cape created by junior doctors and volunteers | PDF HTML |
| David M Favara, Lara Makin | 356-357 |
| Feline companions and demography | PDF HTML |
| Sergei V Jargin | 357 |
| Rape in South Africa | PDF HTML |
| Stephen A Craven | 357 |
Izindaba
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‘Boston’ skin cloning an exception – burns surgeons | PDF HTML |
| 358-359 |
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Is your prescribing serving a hidden addiction? | PDF HTML |
| 359-361 |
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RWOPS clampdown – a crisis in the offing | PDF HTML |
| 361-364 |
Book reviews
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‘Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients’ - By Ben Goldacre. London: Fourth Estate. 2012. ISBN 978-0007350742. | PDF HTML |
| Peter Ian Folb | 364 |
Forum
| Starch safety in resuscitation – when will we ever learn? | PDF HTML |
| Andy Parrish, Marc Blockman | 365-367 |
Editorial
| Surveillance alone plays a key role in curbing the overuse of antimicrobials: The major role of antibiotic stewardship | PDF HTML |
| K S S Han, Y Ramsamy | 368 |
| Latex allergy: ‘Plight, rights and fights’ | PDF HTML |
| Paul Charles Potter | 369-370 |
Research
| Microbiological surveillance and antimicrobial stewardship minimise the need for ultrabroad-spectrum combination therapy for treatment of nosocomial infections in a trauma intensive care unit: An audit of an evidence-based empiric antimicrobial policy | PDF HTML |
| Yogandree Ramsamy, David James Jackson Muckart, Khine Swe Swe Han | 371-376 |
| Antimicrobial susceptibility of organisms causing community-acquired urinary tract infections in Gauteng Province, South Africa | PDF HTML |
| David A Lewis, Lindy Y E Gumede, Louis A van der Hoven, Gloria N de Gita, Elsabe J E de Kock, Telsa de Lange, Venessa Maseko, Valentia Kekana, Francois P Smuts, Olga Perovic | 377-381 |
| Extremely high prevalence of multi-resistance among uropathogens from hospitalised children in Beira, Mozambique | PDF HTML |
| Birgitta Theodora van der Meeren, Kajal D Chhaganlal, Annett Pfeiffer, Ermelinda Gomez, Josefo J Ferro, Mirrian Hilbink, Cesar Macome, Francien J van der Vondervoort, Konrad Steidel, Peter C Wever | 382-386 |
| Bacterial contamination of re-usable laryngoscope blades during the course of daily anaesthetic practice | PDF HTML |
| Warren Lowman, Laurissa Venter, Juan Scribante | 386-389 |
| Latex allergy and its clinical features among healthcare workers at Mankweng Hospital, Limpopo Province, South Africa | PDF HTML |
| S M Risenga, G P Shivambu, M P Rakgole, M L Makwela, S Nthuli, T A P Malatji, N J Maligavhada, R J Green | 390-394 |
| The pharmacokinetics of enteral antituberculosis drugs in patients requiring intensive care | PDF HTML |
| C F N Koegelenberg, A Nortje, U Lalla, A Enslin, E M Irusen, B Rosenkranz, H I Seifart, C T Bolliger | 394-398 |
| AIDS-related progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML): A retrospective study from Pretoria, South Africa | PDF HTML |
| C-M Schutte, N Ranchhod, M Kakaza, M Pillay | 399-401 |
| Burden of fetal alcohol syndrome in a rural West Coast area of South Africa | PDF HTML |
| L Olivier, M Urban, M Chersich, M Temmerman, D Viljoen | 402-405 |
| Factors associated with contraceptive use in a rural area in Western Cape Province | PDF HTML |
| N Peer, N Morojele, L London | 406-412 |
| Acute kidney injury risk factor recognition in three teaching hospitals in Ethiopia | PDF HTML |
| Lowri Angharad Phillips, Nicholas Allen, Bethan Phillips, Ammanuel Abera, Ermias Diro, Stephen Riley, Yewondwossen Tadesse, John Williams, Aled Owain Phillips | 413-418 |
Guidelines
| Chronic rhinitis in South Africa: Update 2013 | PDF HTML |
| Robin John Green, Maurice Hockman, Raymond Friedman, Martin Davis, Marinda McDonald, Riaz Seedat, Carla Els, Michael Levin, Paul C Potter, Charles Feldman | 419-422 |
| Spinal cord stimulation for the management of pain: Recommendations for best clinical practice | PDF HTML |
| M Raff, R Melvill, G Coetzee, J Smuts | 423-430 |
CPD
| CPD questionnaire | |