Archives

2013

Vol 31, No 11 (2013): Best of 2013

• Allergic crisis

• Raised intracranial pressure

• Corneal ulcers

• Upper GI bleeding

• Paediatric nuclear medicine

Vol 31, No 10 (2013): Medicine for the elderly

• Frailty

• Managing delirium

• Medico-legal aspects of dementia

• Driving and dementia

• Treating osteoporosis

Vol 31, No 9 (2013): Pulmonology

• Pleural effusion

• Sarcoidosis

• COPD and asthma

• Pulmonary thrombo-embolic disease

• Community-acquired pneumonia

• IPF and NSIP

• Drug-resistant TB

Vol 31, No 8 (2013): Nuclear Medicine

• Nuclear medicine in oncology

• Radionuclide therapy

• Infection imaging

• Integrated imaging

• Nuclear cardiology

• Brain imaging

• Nuclear medicine in childhood

Vol 31, No 7 (2013): Dermatology

• Lymphatic filariasis

• Dermatological services in Cambodia

• Dermatological services in South Asia

• Dermatology nursing: The Mitchell’s Plain experience

• Dermatology nursing: The Overberg experience

• Community dermatology in Mexico

• Community dermatology in Argentina

• Dermatology training in Moshi, Tanzania

• Podoconiosis and endemic non-filarial tropical

elephantiasis

Vol 31, No 6 (2013): General Surgery

• Colorectal liver metastases

• Lower extremity ischaemia

• History of cardiac trauma surgery

• Colorectal cancer

• Upper GI bleeding

• Symptoms of anal disease

• Organ donation and transplantation

Vol 31, No 5 (2013): Renal and Urology

• Common paediatric renal conditions

• Acquired kidney diseases in children

• Physiology of erectile dysfunction

• Urinary retention in women

• Renal disease in the elderly

• Catheters and collection devices

• Sperm retrieval

Vol 31, No 4 (2013): Ophthalmology

• Screening for diabetic neuropathy
• Topical ocular corticosteroids
• The paediatric ophthalmic examination
• Common conjunctival lesions
• Chemotherapy in eye cancer
• HIV and the eye
• Cranial nerve palsies
• Corneal ulcers

Vol 31, No 3 (2013): Neurosurgery

• Emergency presentation
• Neurological v. non-organic conditions
• Raised intracranial pressure
• Minor head trauma
• The painful upper limb
• Intracranial haemorrhage
• Congenital anomalies
• Cervical spondylotic myelopathy
• Neurosurgical complications
• Cerebral palsy

Vol 31, No 2 (2013): Best of 2012

• Gastritis and gastropathy
• Alcohol dependence
• Depression
• Trauma and PTSD
• Barrett’s oesophagus
• Pre-diabetes and the metabolic syndrome
• Vitamin D
• IgE-mediated food allergy
• Acute bacterial rhinosinusitis

Vol 31, No 1 (2013): Paediatric Emergency Medicine

• Paediatric trauma
• Allergic crisis
• Metabolic encephalopathy
• Fluid therapy
• Heart and lungs

2012

Vol 30, No 11 (2012): Emergency Medicine

• Common animal bites
• Patient safety
• Drug abuse in SA
• Triage in mass casualty situations
• Point-of-care ultrasound applications
• Poisonous plants
• Point-of-care ultrasound training, credentialing, accreditation
• Oral medicine

Vol 30, No 10 (2012): Snake bites, spider bites and scorpion stings

• Scorpion sting
• Snake bite
• Spider bite

Vol 30, No 9 (2012): ENT

• The sore throat
• Child hearing loss
• Vertigo
• HIV manifestations in the head and neck
• Hearing aids
• Chronic suppurative otitis media
• Acute bacterial rhinosinusitis

Vol 30, No 8 (2012): Immunology

• Innate immunity
• Primary immunodeficiency disease
• Elite controllers: Understanding natural suppressive control of HIV-1 infection
• Biomarkers and genes predictive of disease predisposition and prognosis in RA
• Allergies in the workplace
• SA Bone Marrow Registry

Vol 30, No 7 (2012): Chemical Pathology

* Blood gases
* GFP and eGFR in adults
* Pre-diabetes and the metabolic syndrome
* Troponins and myocardial infarcation
* PSA and prostate cancer
* Vitamin D
* Lab tests in cystic fibrosis
* Thyroid function tests
* Influence of biological variation, interferences and standardisation on interpretation of lab results
* Immediate-onset IgE-mediated food allergy
* Cost-effective use of lab investigations

Vol 30, No 6 (2012): Anaesthetics

• Safe sedation in general practice
• Acute incidents during anaesthesia
• ‘Simple’ general dental anaesthesia
• Spinal anaesthesia
• Tonsillectomy in HIV-infected children
• Systemic toxicity
• The new Consumer Act and the GP anaesthetist

Vol 30, No 5 (2012): Urology

• The urinary tract in spinal cord injury patients
• Urinary retention in women
• Semen analysis
• Neurogenic lower urinary tract dysfunction
• Dysfunctional voiding in children
• Erectile dysfunction
• Catheters and collection devices
• Sperm retrieval techniques and cryopreservation

Vol 30, No 4 (2012): PSYCHIATRY

• Symptoms of dementia
• Depression in children and adolescents
• Trauma and PTSD
• Alcohol dependence
• Wills and curators and impaired capacity
• Depression in primary care
• Insomnia

Vol 30, No 3 (2012): Climate change and health

• Health lifestyle
• Health systems
• Global economy
• SA burden of disease
• Communities and district health systems
• Climate change advocacy
• Carbon cycle
• Teaching health science students

Vol 30, No 2 (2012): Anatomical Pathology

• Liquid-based cervical cytology
• Common paediatric renal conditions
• Autopsies in SA
• Lymph node biopsy
• Fine-needle aspiration of lymph nodes
• Gastritis and gastropathy
• Common acquired kidney diseases in children
• Barrett’s oesophagus
• Renal disease in the elderly

Vol 30, No 1 (2012): Best of 2011

• Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging
• New developments in medical imaging to detect breast cancer
• Managing first-time seizure and epilepsy in children
• Neurological complications of HIV/AIDS in childhood
• Cervical cancer screening – A new viral paradigm
• Approach to headache in children
• HPV vaccines
• Egg allergy and immunisation in children

2011

Vol 29, No 11/12 (2011): Paediatric Cardiology

Common cardiac emergencies
Pattern recognition in ECGs
Congenital heart disease
Rheumatic heart disease
Anaesthesia for congenital heart disease
Congenital heart surgery
Drugs for the paediatric heart
Neonatal cardiac emergencies
Defibrillation and cardioversion
Epigenetics CHD