Vol. 24 No. 5 (2018)

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Published: 2018-10-23

Editorial

Assessing Coagulation

Michael F M James

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Procalcitonin direct antibiotic therapy in immunocompromised patients

Reitze Nils Rodseth

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Research Articles

Paraglossal straight blade intubation in syndromic children

Michiel Adriaan Du Toit, Rebecca Mary Gray

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Surgical outcomes in eastern Uganda: a one-year cohort study

A Hewitt-Smith, F Bulamba, C Olupot, F Musana, J P Ochieng, M S Lipnick, R M Pearse

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Procalcitonin kinetics in the first 48 hours of ICU admission is associated with higher mortality in critically ill patients with community-acquired pneumonia in a setting of high HIV prevalence

Kathryn Naidoo, Kim De Vasconcellos, David Lee Skinner

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Thromboelastography in mild, chronic liver disease: challenging conventional coagulation tests preceding liver biopsy

Lara R Veronese, Malcolm Miller, Wendy C Spearman

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Effect of peribulbar block on emergence agitation in children undergoing strabismus surgery under desflurane anaesthesia

Jeetinder Kaur Makkar, Aswini Kuberan, Preet Mohinder Singh, Arun Magadi Gopinath, Kajal Jain, Jaspreet Singh, Narinder Pal Singh

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Scientific Letters

The effect of different anaesthetic mask shapes on the anatomical dead space using infant, child and adult part-task trainers

Lourens Botes, Jana Jacobs, Saschke Van der Merwe, Louwrens Van Heerden, Bart Stephanus Diedericks

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