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Table of Contents
Cover
| Cover | |
Contents
| Contents | |
| 793-794 |
From the Editor
| Data → information → knowledge → wisdom: When is South Africa going to get her act together? | |
| Janet Seggie | 795 |
Editor's choice
| Editor's Choice | |
| Emma Buchanan | 796-797 |
Correspondence
| Zolpidem and restoration of consciousness – fact or fiction? | |
| André Venter | 798 |
Izindaba
| Rendering a dangerous healthcare ocean safer | |
| 799-801 |
| Euthanasia in SA – sacrificing one to render many vulnerable? | |
| 801-802 |
| Man impaled on crowbar saved by hospital trauma team | |
| 802-804 |
Forum
| Non-typhoidal Salmonella infections in HIV-positive adults | |
| Evette L Subramoney | 805-807 |
| Indications for the use of bronchial thermoplasty in severe asthma | |
| Keertan Dheda, Coenraad F N Koegelenberg, Aliasgar Esmail, Elvis Irusen, Michael Wechsler, Rob M Niven, Kian Fan Chung, Eric D Bateman | 808-809 |
| Recommendations for the use of endoscopic lung volume reduction in South Africa: Role in the treatment of emphysema | |
| Coenraad F N Koegelenberg, Johan Theron, Keertan Dheda, Willie Bruwer, Brian Allwood, Morné Vorster, Florian von Groote-Bidlingmaier, Dirk-Jan Slebos, Pallav Shah, Felix Herth | 810-815 |
Editorial
| Geography should be taught at medical school | |
| Shaheem de Vries, Heike Geduld | 816 |
Research
| Impact of transthoracic echocardiography at district hospital level | |
| W F Bedeker, A S Lachman, M Borkum, D Hellenberg, C S Cupido | 817-822 |
| The wrong and wounding road: Paediatric polytrauma admitted to a level 1 trauma intensive care unit over a 5-year period | |
| Natasha Naidoo, David J J Muckart | 823-826 |
| Interpersonal violence as a major contributor towards the skewed burden of trauma in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa | |
| Carolyn Lewis, Darryl Wood | 827-830 |
| The epidemiology of major incidents in the Western Cape Province, South Africa | |
| Daniël Jacobus van Hoving, Hendrick J Lategan, Lee Allen Wallis, Wayne Patrick Smith | 831-834 |
| Epidemiology of acute spinal cord injuries in the Groote Schuur Hospital Acute Spinal Cord Injury (GSH ASCI) Unit, Cape Town, South Africa, over the past 11 years | |
| Johan Sothmann, Juliette Stander, Nicolas Kruger, Robert Dunn | 835-839 |
| Meeting national response time targets for priority 1 incidents in an urban emergency medical services system in South Africa: More ambulances won’t help | |
| Christopher Stein, Lee Wallis, Olufemi Adetunji | 840-844 |
| The appropriateness of emergency medical service responses in the eThekwini district of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa | |
| P R Newton, R Naidoo, P Brysiewicz | 844-847 |
| A 10-year review of fatal community assault cases at a regional forensic pathology facility in Cape Town, South Africa | |
| Celeste Ingrid Herbst, Marianne Tiemensma, Shabir Ahmed Wadee | 848-852 |
| A review of primary and secondary burn services in the Western Cape, South Africa | |
| H Rode, A D Rogers, A Numanoglu, L Wallis, R Allgaier, L Laflamme, M Hasselberg, L Blom, R Duvenage | 852-857 |
| Self-expanding metal stent placement for oesophageal cancer without fluoroscopy is safe and effective | |
| Morgie Govender, Colleen Aldous, Lucien Ferndale, Sandie R Thomson, Damian Luiz Clarke | 858-861 |
| Pulmonary tuberculosis in a South African regional emergency centre: Can infection control be improved to lower the risk of nosocomial transmission? | |
| Helen Casey, Anne Smith, Lucy Parker, Matthew Dipper, Trevor Gould | 862-865 |
| Prenatal BoBsTM in the cytogenetic analysis of products of spontaneous miscarriage | |
| Sarah Mellali, Khadidja Haoud, Laetitia Gouas, Meghit Boumediene Khaled, Philippe Vago, Soraya Moulessehoul | 870-873 |
| Prevalence of breast tuberculosis: Retrospective analysis of 65 patients attending a tertiary hospital in Durban, South Africa | |
| Dibuseng P Ramaema, Ines Buccimazza, Richard J Hift | 866-869 |
CPD
| CPD questionnaire | |
Continuing Medical Education
| A variety of conditions | |
| Bridget Farham | 874 |
| Bacillary angiomatosis: A rare finding in the setting of antiretroviral drugs | |
| Matamela Chasney Madua | 874 |
| Basedow paraplegia: A possible misnomer | |
| Lizl Smith, Tanja Kemp, Cornelis H van der Meyden, Lara-Maria Schutte | 875 |
| Cryptococcal laryngitis: An uncommon presentation of a common pathogen | |
| Yahya Atiya, S Dipuo Masege | 875 |
| Efavirenz as a cause of ataxia in children | |
| Marc P K Hauptfleisch, David Paul Moore, John L Rodda | 876 |
| The real value of endobronchial ultrasound | |
| Morné Johan Vorster, Pawel Tomasz Schubert, Coenraad Frederik Nicolaas Koegelenberg | 876 |
| False-negative HIV-1 polymerase chain reaction in a 15-month-old boy with HIV-1 subtype C infection | |
| Regina Oladokun, Stephen Korsman, Nonkululeko Ndabambi, Nei-yuan Hsiao, Lucia Hans, Carolyn Williamson, Melissa-Rose Abrahams, Brian Eley | 877 |
| Delayed presentation and diagnosis of metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma in pregnancy | |
| Coceka Nandipha Mnyani, Jennifer Coryn Hull, Mbaliso Buntu Mbakaza, Ahmed Omar Ali Krim, Ermos Nicolaou | 877 |
| Kounis syndrome | |
| Pat Mahungwane Ntuli, Edson Makambwa | 878 |