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Table of Contents
Cover
| Cover | |
Contents
| Contents | |
| 423-424 |
Guest Editorial
| A good complaints system | |
| Graham Howarth, John Tiernan, Gareth Gillespie, Pieter Carstens | 425-426 |
Editor's choice
| Editor's Choice | |
| Janet Seggie | 427-428 |
Correspondence
| Patient satisfaction with emergency departments | |
| Z Mahomed, L Wallis, F Motara | 429 |
Izindaba
| Stellenbosch University: Africa’s first WHO Bioethics Collaborating Centre | |
| 430-431 |
| Healthcare workers baulk at caring for contagious patients | |
| 431-432 |
| Judge nudges dormant euthanasia draft law | |
| 432-433 |
| The Fabricius decision on the Stransham-Ford case – an enlightened step in the right direction | |
| 434-435 |
| Robotic computer system develops high-skill ‘technosurgeons’ | |
| 435-436 |
Forum
| Management of pulmonary hypertension | |
| Mohammed Rafique Essop, Nazzereno Galie, David B Badesch, Umesh Lalloo, Achter Goolam Mahomed, Datshana P Naidoo, Mpiko Ntsekhe, Paul G Williams | 437-439 |
| Rural district hospitals – essential cogs in the district health system – and primary healthcare re-engineering | |
| Karl Willem du Pré le Roux, Ian Couper | 440-441 |
| Encephalopathy after persistent vomiting: Three cases of non-alcohol-related Wernicke’s encephalopathy | |
| Katherine Antel, Nevadna Singh, Briony Chisholm, Jeannine M Heckmann | 442-443 |
| A bedside system for clinical grading of parotid gland enlargement | |
| Mashudu Tshifularo | 444-445 |
| Reflections of a Retiree: 40 years in Public Service at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital | |
| Ken Robert Huddle | 446-450 |
Editorial
| Minimising the ‘cost’ of laparoscopic cholecystectomy | |
| Sandie R Thomson, Martin D Smith | 451-452 |
| The management of burns begins at home | |
| Darryl Wood | 452 |
| Paediatric dental sedation: Will your child return home unharmed? | |
| B J S Diedericks | 453 |
Research
| A cost analysis of operative repair of major laparoscopic bile duct injuries | |
| Stefan Hofmeyr, Jake E J Krige, Philippus C Bornman, Steve J Beningfield | 454-457 |
| Prehospital cooling of severe burns: Experience of the Emergency Department at Edendale Hospital, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa | |
| Daniel Fiandeiro, Janeshree Govindsamy, Roshen Chathram Maharaj | 457-460 |
| Paediatric dental chair sedation: An audit of current practice in Gauteng, South Africa | |
| Faizal Bham, Helen Perrie, Juan Scribante, Clover-Ann Lee | 461-464 |
| The South African Surgical Outcomes Study: A 7-day prospective observational cohort study | |
| Bruce Mark Biccard, Thandinkosi E Madiba, on behalf of the South African Surgical Outcomes Study investigators | 465-475 |
| The impact of acute preoperative beta-blockade on perioperative cardiac morbidity and all-cause mortality in hypertensive South African vascular surgery patients | |
| Y Moodley, B M Biccard | 476-479 |
| Granulomas at initial diagnosis of Crohn’s disease signal a poor outcome | |
| Gillian Ann Watermeyer, Sandie R Thomson | 480-483 |
| Waiting times for prostate cancer diagnosis in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa | |
| K Singh, E H Abdel Goad, S S Ramklass | 484-486 |
| The appropriateness of preoperative blood testing: A retrospective evaluation and cost analysis | |
| H E Buley, D Bishop, R Rodseth | 487-490 |
| Analysis of referrals and triage patterns in a South African metropolitan adult intensive care service | |
| Katherine Gordon, Nikki Allorto, Robert Wise | 491-495 |
| Outcomes of vitrectomy for advanced diabetic retinopathy at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa | |
| James Clarke Rice, Jonel Steffen | 496-499 |
Continuing Medical Education
| Trauma care – the Eastern Cape story | |
| J John, W Matshoba | 500 |
| Introduction to algorithms for managing the common trauma patient | |
| L Wallis | 501 |
| Algorithms for managing the common trauma patient | |
| J John | 502-507 |
CPD
| CPD questionnaire | |