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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Paediatric Surgery"”.
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Paediatric Surgery training in South Africa: Trainees' perspectives
… documented evidence regarding the training of paediatric surgeons in South Africa since its inception as a formal speciality in 2007. This study aims to assess South African paediatric surgical trainees' perspectives regarding their training. Methods: A prospective study was conducted via an …
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An analysis of neonatal mortality following gastro-intestinal and/or abdominal surgery in a tertiary hospital in South Africa
… wall defects at a tertiary freestanding paediatric hospital in Western Cape, South Africa, over a 12-year period. (2) Ascertain the causes and risk factors associated with 30-day post-operative mortality. Method: A retrospective folder audit of all neonates that underwent gastrointestinal …
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Advantages of MesoRex shunt compared with distal splenorenal shunt for extrahepatic portal vein occlusion in children
… management of portal hypertension in the paediatric population. Although different shunts have been proposed for EHPVO, both the MesoRex shunt and distal splenorenal shunt have shown the most promising results as effective and definitive approaches to alleviating EHPVO. Aim: To review …
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Video assisted gastrostomy in children
… a gastrostomy if needed. At the Department of Paediatric Surgery in Lund we have used the Video Assisted Gastrostomy (VAG) procedure since 1994 when establishing gastrostomies. In this thesis, children with different diseases, who all had undergone the VAG procedure, were studied in five …
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Paediatric brain tumours: The University of Cape Town experience from 1996 - 2017
… with their treatment. Despite the importance of paediatric brain tumours though, little is known about childhood brain tumours in South Africa as limited data have been published and there have been no funded studies to support research in this area. In addition, we know very little about the …
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Inhalational burns in children
This study began in 1990 in the Burn Unit of The Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital (RCWMCH) in Capetown. It came to our attention that children in the Burn Unit developed respiratory problems. These were complications of fireburns, smoke inhalation, explosions and even hot water scalds. …
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Correlation of 99mTc Sucralfate scan and endoscopic grading in caustic oesophageal injury: An observational analytic study at Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital
Introduction: Technecium (Tc) 99m Sucralfate scan has been shown to be a reliable and non-invasive screening modality after caustic substance ingestion, followed by oesophagoscopy under general anaesthesia to grade the extent and severity of injury. Aim: To determine a correlation between the 99mTc …
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Local anesthetic wound infusion versus standard analgesia in paediatric post-operative pain control : a randomised control trial
… [EPI] for children undergoing open abdominal surgery and (b) intravenous morphine and Perfalgan® infusion alone [standard post-operative analgesia - SAPA] in children undergoing Lanz incision laparotomy for complicated appendicitis. Patients aged between 3 months and 12 years undergoing …
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Birth prevalence of ano-rectal malformations for the Western Cape Province, South Africa
… 2012; retrospective data was collected from the Paediatric Surgical Departments of Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital, Tygerberg Children's Hospital as well as the private sector health registries. The number of live births per year for a specific municipal district was obtained from the …