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April 2, 2021
Background Indicators to evaluate progress towards timely access to safe surgical, anaesthesia, and obstetric (SAO) care were proposed in 2015 by the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery. Despite being rapidly taken up by practitioners, datapoints from which to derive them...
Categories: Other / General Topics
March 15, 2020
Categories: Other / Covid-19
July 1, 2020
Community transmission of COVID-19 is already being reported in Africa. Most countries on the continent will have +10,000 confirmed cases within the month.2 The population, while generally younger than in Europe and North America, has much higher rates of poverty,...
Categories: Other / Covid-19
December 1, 2009
Categories: UIA / Anaesthesia Emergencies / General Topics / Obstetrics Anaesthesia
December 1, 2009
Categories: UIA / Anaesthesia Emergencies / General Topics / Obstetrics Anaesthesia
September 1, 2019
Deaths of babies in the first 28 days of life in resource-limited countries can be significantly reduced with a small number of low-tech interventions. This article summarises the core equipment and skills needed for the resuscitation of newborns where equipment...
Categories: UIA / Obstetrics Anaesthesia
September 1, 2019
Postpartum hemorrhage remains the leading cause of maternal mortality and morbidity. Oxytocic drugs are the main stay in prevention as well as treatment. Oxytocin remains the drug of choice
Categories: UIA / General Topics / Obstetrics Anaesthesia
September 1, 2019
Sepsis remains one of the four main causes of maternal mortality. Common causes of severe sepsis & septic shock during pregnancy include pyelonephritis, infection during labour and peurpurium & respiratory infection.
Categories: UIA / General Topics / Obstetrics Anaesthesia
September 1, 2019
Obesity is one of the greatest public health challenges of the 21st century. Obesity during pregnancy puts the mother, fetus and neonate at higher risk of morbidity and mortality during the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal periods.
Categories: UIA / General Topics / Obstetrics Anaesthesia