Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is a disease caused by an acid-fast staining pathogenic bacterium, Mycobacterium tuberculosis that is resistant to at least isoniazid (INH) and rifampicin (RIF), the two most potent TB drugs. Drug-resistant tuberculosis poses a significant problem for...
Download PDF ↓Severe respiratory distress is a common and serious complication in the newborn which may be due to premature birth, neonatal pneumonia and neonatal sepsis, accounting for over one-half of all neonatal deaths globally. Nasal continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) is a noninvasive form of...
Download PDF ↓Over the years, many researchers have tried to address how to integrate traditional medicine with investment expropriation. While some countries have well managed to combine both Traditional Medicine (TM) and Conventional Medicine (CM) others have not. In many African, South American and Asian...
Download PDF ↓Tourniquets are extensively used in Orthopaedic surgery to achieve a bloodless field at the surgical site resulting in elevated lactate levels. Use of antiretroviral drugs is also associated with elevation of lactate levels. Hyperlactatemia is associated with increased morbidity and mortality....
Download PDF ↓Diagnosis of abortion in Zambia relies on clinical findings coupled with ultrasound examination. The treatment of choice in the first trimester is manual vacuum aspiration (MVA). Reducing the physical pain and anxiety during MVA is the ultimate goal of management for which, several drugs have...
Download PDF ↓Diagnosis of abortion in Zambia relies on clinical findings coupled with ultrasound examination. The treatment of choice in the first trimester is manual vacuum aspiration (MVA). Reducing the physical pain and anxiety during MVA is the ultimate goal of management for which, several drugs have...
Download PDF ↓Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) is an autosomal recessive inherited condition characterized by the inheritance of two abnormal genes coding for the formation of Haemoglobin and one of them is Haemoglobin s. Musculoskeletal manifestations are the commonest clinical presentations of both acute and...
Download PDF ↓The Surgical Apgar Score (SAS) is a very easy and objective tool for triaging patients postsurgery. It can be used as an assessment tool for performance of hospitals, units or individual surgeons. However, not much research has been done to assess its utility in resource limited settings like...
Download PDF ↓Following an observation of lack of statistics locally, a retrospective study to determine the presentation, management and short-term outcomes of extradural spinal tumours from 2013 to 2016 at the University Teaching Hospital was conducted after approval from the University of Zambia Biomedical...
Download PDF ↓Anaemia is a public health problem globally affecting 293.1 million children and 28.5% of these children are in the sub Saharan Africa. The study was to determine the prevalence of anaemia and the associated risk factors of anaemia in children aged 6 months to 15 years admitted to the University...