Table of Contents
Cover
Cover | |
Contents
Contents | |
643-644 |
From the Editor
Seeing through another’s eyes | |
Bridget Farham | 645 |
Correspondence
Paraffin ingestion in children: Rationalising antibiotic treatment | |
Kate Balme, Cindy Stephen | 646 |
Human dignity and the future of the voluntary active euthanasia debate in South Africa | |
Allan Donkin | 647 |
Izindaba
What can we expect from the leadership of the recently elected World Health Organization Director-General, Dr Tedros? | |
648-649 |
30 days in medicine | |
650-651 |
Book reviews
The ECG Atlas of Cardiac Rhythms. By Rob Scott Millar. Cape Town: Clinics Cardive Publishing, 2015. ISBN: 978-0-620-64044-2 | |
Anton Doubell | 652 |
Darwin’s Hunch: Science, Race and the Search for Human Origins. By Christa Kuljian. Johannesburg: Jacana Media, 2016. ISBN: 978-1-4314-2425-2 | |
Anwar Suleman Mall | 653 |
Editorial
Short-course adjuvant trastuzumab will increase cure rates in patients with human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-positive breast cancer | |
Raymond Pierre Abratt | 654-655 |
Continuing Medical Education
Growing wilderness and expedition medicine education in southern Africa | |
Ross Hofmeyr, Jay Matthew, Sean Buchanan, Gela Tölken, Rik De Decker | 656-658 |
Expedition medicine: A southern African perspective | |
Ross Hofmeyr, Gela Tölken, Rik De Decker | 659-663 |
Heat-related illness in the African wilderness | |
Ross Hofmeyr, Caroline D'Alton | 664-668 |
Human factors: Predictors of avoidable wilderness accidents? | |
Rik De Decker, Gela Tölken, John Roos | 669-673 |
In Practice
A retrospective study evaluating the efficacy of identification and management of sepsis at a district-level hospital internal medicine department in the Western Cape Province, South Africa, in comparison with the guidelines stipulated in the 2012 Survivi | |
Raisa Bhikoo, Sarah Versfeld, M M De V Basson, Almero H Oosthuizen | 674-678 |
Enrolling HIV-positive adolescents in mental health research: A case study reflecting on legal and ethical complexities | |
Nataly Woollett, John Peter, Lucie Cluver, Heena Brahmbhatt | 679-683 |
Confidentiality and fitness to drive: Professional, ethical, and legal duties in the case of the diabetic bus driver | |
Christopher Wareham | 684-686 |
Does access to private healthcare influence potential lung cancer cure rates? | |
Thadathilankal-Jess John, Dante Plekker, Elvis M Irusen, Coenie F N Koegelenberg | 687-690 |
A method for determining when the superficial scalp arteries are the source of migraine pain | |
Elliot Shevel | 691-693 |
Ocular metastasis as initial presentation in breast cancer | |
Madelein Maliepaard, Michael Mesham, Zoran Aleksic, Raoul Scholtz, Jennifer Edge | 694-696 |
Research
Corneal donations in South Africa: A 15-year review | |
Nicholas J York, Christopher Tinley | 697-701 |
The effect of HIV status on clinical outcomes of surgical sepsis in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa | |
Samantha Green, Victor Y Kong, Jocinta Odendaal, Benn Sartorius, Damian L Clarke, Petra Brysiewicz, John L Bruce, Grant L Laing, Wanda Bekker | 702-705 |
Pancreatitis in a high HIV prevalence environment | |
Frank Anderson, Sandie R Thomson | 706-709 |
Cardiovascular risk factors and mortality in children with chronic kidney disease | |
Abdullahi Mudi, Caroline Dickens, Cecil Levy, Daynia Ballot | 710-714 |
Suicide in Pretoria: A retrospective review, 2007 - 2010 | |
Cornelia Engelbrecht, Ryan Blumenthal, Neil K Morris, Gert Saayman | 715-718 |
CPD
CPD questionnaire | |