Table of Contents
Contents
Contents | |
427-428 |
Guest Editorial
South Africa’s coronavirus testing strategy is broken and not fit for purpose: It’s time for a change | |
M Mendelson, S Madhi | 429-431 |
Correspondence
The utility of high-flow nasal cannula oxygen therapy in the management of respiratory failure secondary to COVID-19 pneumonia | |
U Lalla, B W Allwood, E H Louw, A Nortje, A Parker, J J Taljaard, D Moodley, C F N Koegelenberg | 432 |
Closed positive end-expiratory pressure system: Pre-oxygenation and ventilatory support in COVID-19 | |
I D'Andrea, P Naidoo, E Schoeman, C Kotze | 433 |
COVID-19 restrictions and increased risk of overdose for street-based people with opioid dependence in South Africa | |
M-J Stowe, A Scheibe, S Shelly, M Marks | 434 |
Prognosticating COVID-19: A need for Africa-specific laboratory predictors | |
G Omuse, J Maranga, A Abdillah, D Maina | 435 |
COVID-19 infection in Italy: An occupational injury | |
F Chirico, N Magnavita | 436 |
Assessment of sputum cultures for the diagnosis of lower-respiratory tract infections in the outpatient setting | |
R Chanda, C J Opperman | 437 |
Obituaries
Araj Hanooman | |
Y Moodley | 438 |
Editorial
How South Africa’s Ministerial Advisory Committee on COVID-19 can be optimised | |
J A Singh | 439-442 |
Building trust during COVID 19: Value-driven and ethical priority-setting | |
A Mosam, S Goldstein, A Erzse, A Tugendhaft, K Hofman | 443-444 |
COVID-19: Science and global health governance under attack | |
J A Singh | 445-446 |
Remdesivir and COVID-19: What are the implications for Africa? | |
R J Green, F Mustafa, N Sewlall, G A Richards | 447 |
The implications of COVID-19 for the children of Africa | |
F Mustafa, R Green | 448-449 |
In Practice
Pandemics, professionalism and the duty of care: Concerns from the coalface | |
A Dhai, M Veller, D Ballot, M Mokhachane | 450-452 |
COVID-19: Mandatory institutional isolation v. voluntary home self-isolation | |
J A Singh | 453-455 |
Isolation and quarantine in South Africa during COVID-19: Draconian measures or proportional response? | |
K Moodley, A E Obasa, L London | 456-457 |
Criminalisation of transmission of SARS-CoV-2: A potential challenge to controlling the outbreak in South Africa | |
S Abdool Karim | 458-460 |
COVID-19 and patient-doctor confidentiality | |
D J McQuoid-Mason | 461-462 |
Leadership and early strategic response to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic at a COVID-19 designated hospital in South Africa | |
A Parker, S Karamchand, N Schrueder, S Lahri, H Rabie, A Aucamp, R Abrahams, P Ciapparelli, D S Erasmus, M F Cotton, U Lalla, R Leisegang, J Meintjes, R Mistry, M R Moosa, A Mowlana, C F N Koegelenberg, H Prozesky, W Smith, M van Schalkwyk, J J Taljaard | 463-465 |
Personal protective equipment (PPE) in a pandemic: Approaches to PPE preservation for South African healthcare facilities | |
C le Roux, A Dramowski | 466-468 |
COVID-19 and quarantine orders: A practical approach | PDF PDF |
W M Botes, D W Thaldar | 469-472 |
HIV and SARS-CoV-2 co-infection: The diagnostic challenges of dual pandemics | |
A Parker, J Shaw, S Karamchand, S Lahri, N Schrueder, M-Y Chothia, A Mowlana, U Lalla, B W Allwood, C F N Koegelenberg, J J Taljaard | 473-475 |
Quarantine alone or in combination with other public health measures to control COVID-19: A rapid Cochrane review | |
B Schmidt, E L Davids, T Malinga | 476-477 |
Review
Transmission of respiratory viruses when using public ground transport: A rapid review to inform public health recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemic | |
J Zhen, C Chan, A Schoonees, E Apatu, L Thabane, T Young | 478-483 |
Research
Analysis of the airway registry from an academic emergency department in South Africa | |
J C Hart, L N Goldstein | 484-490 |
Predictors of 1-year survival in South African transcatheter aortic valve implant candidates | |
J J Liebenberg, A Doubell, J van Wyk, M Kidd, T Mabin, H Weich | 491-496 |
An analysis of neonates with surgical diagnoses admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, South Africa | |
R T Saggers, D E Ballot, A Grieve | 497-501 |
A retrospective cohort study comparing pregnancy outcomes and neonatal characteristics between HIV-infected and HIV-non-infected mothers | |
G Goldman, S Budhram | 502-504 |
Ever and repeat HIV testing rates among male and female clients: Findings from a reproductive health services integration project in South Africa | |
C Milford, M E Beksinska, Z Mabude, J A Smit | 514-518 |
Prevalence and outcome of delirium among acute general medical inpatients in Cape Town, South Africa | |
N du Plooy, C Day, K Manning, F Abdullah, K James, L Grace, N Vorajee, C April, J Peter, P J Raubenheimer | 519-524 |
Lessons learnt during the national introduction of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination programmes in 6 African countries: Stakeholders’ perspectives | |
L H Abdullahi, G D Hussey, C S Wiysonge, B M Kagina | 525-531 |
Viewership footprint for a low-resource, student-centred collaborative video platform to teach orthopaedics in southern Africa | |
G S Wever, I Elliott, J McCaul, M Workman, M Laubscher, R N Dunn, M Held | 532-536 |
Thirty-day readmission rate: A predictor of initial surgical severity or quality of surgical care? A regional hospital analysis | |
P C S Snyders, O Swart, R C Duvenage | 537-539 |
Clinical characteristics and treatment outcomes of women with heroin dependence in Johannesburg, South Africa | |
N Morgan, W Daniels, U Subramaney | 540-545 |
Prevalence of hookah pipe smoking in high-school learners in Johannesburg, South Africa | |
N Naicker, J Teare, P Albers, A Mathee | 546-551 |
CPD
CPD Questions | |