A new microvascular sleeve anastomosis

The bulk of this thesis will be devoted to the development of the new anastomotic technique and descriptions of the various experimental systems designed to test the anastomosis, together with the results obtained

Recurrent primary fallopian tube carcinoma presenting with an appendiceal metastasis

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'n Histories-argeologiese ondersoek na die scenario van Jesaja 8:6 : ['et me hassiloah haholekim le'at]

Verhandeling (B. Th.) -- Universiteit van Stellenbosch, 1988.Full text to be digitised and attached to bibliographic record

Die etiese problematiek rondom nieroorplantings : 'n teologiese besinning

Proefskrif (M. Th.) -- Universiteit van Stellenbosch, 1991.Full text to be digitised and attached to bibliographic record

Management of incomplete abortions at South African public hospitals

CITATION: Fawcus, S. et al. 1997. Management of incomplete abortions at South African public hospitals. South African Medical Journal, 87(4):438-442.The original publication is available at http://www.samj.org.zaObjective. The objective of this report was to review and describe the management of incomplete abortion by public sector hospitals. Design. A descriptive study in which data were collected prospectively from routine hospital records on all women admitted with incomplete abortion to a stratified random sample of hospitals between 14 and 28 September 1994. Setting. Public sector hospitals in South Africa. Patients. Women with incomplete abortions. Main outcome measures. Length of hospital stay, details of medical management, details of surgical management, determinants of the above. Main results. Data were collected on 803 patients from the 56 participating hospitals. Of these, 767 (95.9%) were in hospital for 1 day or more, and 753 (95.3%) women underwent evacuation of the uterus. Sharp curettage was the method employed in 726 (96.9%) and general anaesthesia was used for 601 (88%) of the women requiring uterine evacuation. Antibiotics were prescribed for 396 (49.5%) and blood transfusions were administered to 125 (17%) women. Statistical analysis showed length of stay to be longer in small hospitals (under 500 beds) and when the medical condition was more severe. Antibiotic usage and blood transfusion were more common with increasing severity and a low haemoglobin level on admission. However, some inappropriate management was identified with regard to both. Main conclusions. It is suggested that uncomplicated incomplete abortion can be more effectively and safely managed using the manual vacuum aspiration technique with sedation/analgesia as an outpatient procedure. Attention should be directed at the introduction of this management routine at all types of hospital and to the ensuring of appropriate management of women with complicated abortion.Publisher’s versio

Entwicklung eines Beurteilungsverfahrens fuer schaltbare Reibungskupplungen Abschlussbericht. Berichtszeitraum 1973-1978. Forschungsvorhaben Nr. 18

TIB: RN 3358 (72) / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekSIGLEDEGerman

The Missing Politics of Urban Vulnerability: The State and the Co-production of Climate Risk.

Studies of urban disaster and climate change risk have increasingly invoked governmentality as a theoretical frame for understanding how urban risk governance functions. This article argues that the use of governmentality in this context can advance political readings of urban vulnerability to climate risk. However, using the idiom of co-production from Science and Technology Studies, I question current treatments of the politics of expertise in the urban risk governance literature, highlighting the need to understand the political commitments and practices that shape the implementation of purportedly technical risk knowledge and their particular manifestation in the context of informal, urban settlements. A case study from Bogota, Colombia, links the science and practice of state risk management to vulnerability outcomes in informal urban settlements. It shows how a new suite of qualitative methodological approaches are revealing of the power-knowledge dynamics in governance that influence vulnerability, and their differential social effects