Clinical use of intraoperative auto-transfusion requires the removal of platelets and plasma proteins due to pump-based suction and water-soluble anticoagulant administration, which causes dilutional coagulopathy
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Self-anticoagulant sponge for whole blood auto-transfusion and its mechanism of coagulation factor inactivation
CLINICAL: 2 POINTS
Monitoring transmission intensity of Trachoma with serology
Trachoma, caused by ocular Chlamydia trachomatis infection, is targeted for global elimination as a public health problem by 2030. To provide evidence for use of antibodies to monitor C. trachomatis transmission, we collated IgG responses to Pgp3 antigen, PCR positivity, and clinical observations from 19,811 children aged 1–9 years in 14 populations.
CLINICAL: 2 POINTS
Assessing the global risk of typhoid outbreaks caused by extensively drug resistant Salmonella Typhi
Since its emergence in 2016, extensively drug resistant (XDR) Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi (S. Typhi) has become the dominant cause of typhoid fever in Pakistan. The establishment of sustained XDR S. Typhi transmission in other countries represents a major public health threat.
CLINICAL: 2 POINTS
Influencing the culture of Quality and Safety Through Huddles
Literature shows that interdisciplinary huddles help promote clear communication and proactive reporting of potential errors. High reliability organization (HRO) and just culture models were implemented, yet fragmented team communication about patient safety remained. Huddles were implemented to identify and address patient safety issues.
CLINICAL: 2 POINTS
Communication
Communication can be defined as imparting or exchanging of information by speaking, writing, or using some other medium, such as phone lines or computers. We all know that communication involves more than one person, one cannot communicate to themselves. Communication is a two way street.
CLINICAL: 1 POINTS
CHOLERA OUTBREAK IN SOUTH AFRICA
Since the last update on 28 February 2023, four new cholera cases have been reported. All new cases were detected in Gauteng Province over the last week, and have been classified as indigenous cases; none reported recent travel (international or local) and there was no evidence of a direct link to imported cases. Three of the new cases are in the City of Johannesburg and are adults who participated in the same traditional healing ritual. One case is in Ekhurhuleni: a 10-year-old child with no history of travel and no apparent links to other cases. All new cases are recovering.
CLINICAL: 2 POINTS
Balancing health worker well-being and duty to care: an ethical approach to staff safety in COVID-19 and beyond.
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the risks that can be involved in healthcare work. In this paper, we explore the issue of staff safety in clinical work using the example of personal protective equipment (PPE) in the COVID-19 crisis.
ETHICS: 3 POINTS
Practice what you preach’: Nurses’ perspectives on the Code of Ethics and Service Pledge in five South African hospitals
A recent focus of the global discourse on the health workforce has been on its quality, including the existence of codes of ethics.
ETHICS: 1 POINTS
An exploration of an ethics of care in relation to people with intellectual disability and their family caregivers in the Cape Town metropole in South Africa
People with intellectual disability (ID) are defined as a group by their need for lifelong support. For the most part, it falls to family caregivers to provide this support.
ETHICS: 3 POINTS
Experimental Treatment with Favipiravir for COVID-19: An Open-Label Control Study
An outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection and its caused coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been reported in China since December 2019.
ETHICS: 3 POINTS
Ethics of sleep- Clinical practice and the law
Ethical behaviour is core to the practice of sleep medicine. Sleep medicine raises questions in three often distinguished subcategories of ethics – normative ethics (how should we behave?)…
ETHICS: 2 POINTS
Blood Transfusions and Medical Malpractice in South Africa
Blood transfusions save countless lives around the world, with an estimated 85 million units of red blood cells transfused each year.
ETHICS: 2 POINTS