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Knowledge and Practices Regarding Surgical Site Infection Prevention Among Nursing Staff at Kampala International University Teaching Hospital Bushenyi, Uganda

ABSTRACT Surgical site infections (SSIs) are infections related to an operative procedure that occurs at or near the surgical incision within 30 days after the surgery. The incidence of SSI Varies from hospital to hospital in different countries with developed countries having lower incidences ranging from 2% to 6.4%, and developing countries with higher incidence ranging from 5.5% to 25%.It is estimated that SSI develop in 2% to 5% of the more than 30 million patients who undergo surgical pr...

Assessment of Awareness of the Causes of Maternal Mortality Among Women in Reproductive Age in Bushenyi - Ishaka Municipality

ABSTRACT The study was carried out in Bushenyi-Ishaka municipality. The purpose of this study was to identify factors which influence mother’s choice of delivery site. The respondents were mothers between the ages of 15-49 years with sane minds. There were 100 mothers in the quantitative data. The research showed that among the women that had delivered before most of them 80% were aware of the common causes of maternal mortality and 30% of those that had never delivered knew the causes of m...

Knowledge Attitude and Practices of Rhesus Incompatibility Among Women Attending Antenatal Care in Kampala International University-Teaching Hospital.

ABSTRACT Background: Rhesus incompatibility occurs when a rhesus negative woman is carrying a rhesus positive foetus, the first pregnancy is normally spared, unless the mother is injected with Anti D,the subsequent pregnancies will have complications resulting to kernicterus, erythroblastosis fetalis or hydrops fetalis, in other words the foetus will not survive to term or will die shortly after birth).The objectives were: Assessing knowledge, attitude and practices of Rhesus incompatibility ...

EXPLORING PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT IN APPLIED BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS THERAPY FOR CHILDREN WITH AUTISM

This phenomenological study aimed to explore the factors impeding or encouraging parental participation through the lived experiences of eight parents of children with autism who are currently receiving applied behavior analysis-based treatment.

Factors Contributing to Increased Hiv Infection Among Married Couples Attending Art Clinic at Ishaka Adventist Hospital, Bushenyi District

ABSTRACT Globally, about 36.7 million people are living with HIV of which 51% are women worldwide. In Africa there is still prevalence of new HIV infections with 12% occur in married couples many of whom are unaware of both partners’ sero-status. The study purpose was to establish factors contributing to increased HIV infection among Married Couples attending ART Clinic at Ishaka Adventist Hospital, Bushenyi District. The study used a descriptive cross-sectional design which employed quanti...

Assessment of Knowledge On Use of Artemether Lumefantrine in Management of Uncomplicated Malaria Among Outpatients at Klu-Th

ABSTRACT This study sought to assess the knowledge on the use of Artemether/ therapy in the management of uncomplicated malaria among out patients treated at KlU-TH. A cross sectional study design was employed in this study. Data was collected from August to October 2018 using a questionnaire by simple Random sampling and was entered and analyzed using Microsoft Excel spread sheet and Statistical Package of Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20 respectively. The results were presented in form of ...

Pharmaco-Economic Analysis of Brands of Antacid Formulations Available in Ishaka Town Using Titrimetric Method

ABSTRACT Pharmaco-economics involves comparing the cost and consequences of products and services and Cost-effectiveness is the relationship between cost and effectiveness of a given drug. ANC of an antacid is one of the ways of evaluating effectiveness of antacid brands. ANC (mEq per unit dose) is the ability of the antacid to neutralize gastric acid (Shery et al., 2013), and it should be greater or equal to 5mEq per unit dose(FDA), where a unit dose of 0.5g for tablets and 5ml for suspensio...

Knowledge On HIV Post Exposure Prophylaxisis Among the Health Care Workers in Ishaka Bushenyi

Abstract Each day thousands of healthcare workers (HCWs), around the world, suffer accidental occupational exposures during the course of their role of caring for patients. Occupational exposure to blood or other body fluids in health care settings constitutes significant risk of transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and other blood-borne pathogens. Post exposure prophylaxis (PEP) is a medical response to prevent transmission of pathogens after potential exposure and refers to co...

Assessment of Abnormal Vaginal Bleeding using Ultrasound in Um Dwanban Administrative Area

Abstract This is a descriptive cross sectional study conducted in Um Dawan Ban area in medical Mohammed Saad’s complex from August 2016 to January 2017, by Real Time Ultrasound Denshi Fukuda machine with Convex(Curved) probe with frequency 3.5 MHz. The problem of the study was an incidence of abnormal vaginal bleeding was high among pregnant and non-pregnant women in Um Dwanban administrative area. The study aimed to Assessment of Abnormal Vaginal Bleeding Using Ultrasound in Um Dawan Ban a...

Study of Malignant Breast Tumors using Ultrasound

Abstract From February 2014 to November 2014 inclusive, (200) patients presented for breast imaging and of these, (100) formed the study group , All patients in the study group were imaged with breast ultrasound. There was inclusive and exclusive data due to the lack of required information. The appearance of specific types of breast carcinoma has been studied. Although appearances vary greatly, some patterns are typical,, Mucin-containing carcinomas are often circumscribed but may have irreg...

Evaluation of Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging with Clinical Findings for Brain Stroke Patients in Khartoum State

Abstract The aim of this study is to evaluate of the diffusion magnetic resonance imaging with clinical findings for brain stroke patients in Khartoum state, to evaluate the doctor's experience about the diffusion weighted imaging for brain stroke, measure the accuracy of diffusion weighted imaging in detection brain stroke, compare the DWI findings and the conventional MRI protocols findings for brain stroke, determine the most clinical findings for brain stroke and to determine the MRI depa...

Measurement of Complete Blood Counts (CBC) among Sudanese Pregnant Ladies in Elnihood City

Abstract This was a case control study, conducted in West Kordofan State at Elnihood City during the period from April to July 2016, which aimed to determine CBC of two hundred and nine (209) healthy Sudanese pregnant women at all trimesters (case) and one hundred and one (101) non pregnant women (control).Subjectswere verbally consented and approved to participate. Two and half ml of venous blood was collected in EDTA anticoagulated container. Automated hematological analyzer (Urit3010) was ...

Measurement of Prothrombin Time and Activated Partial Thromboplastin Time in Sudanese Sickle Cell Anemia Patients in Khartoum State

Abstract This is a case control study aimed to measure levels of, Prothombin time (PT), activated partial Thromboplastin time (APTT), platelet count in patients with homozygous sickle cell disease (HbSS), sickle cell trait (HbAS) and normal controls (HbAA). The study period from August to October 2019, in Khartoum State in the Sickle Cell Clinic of Gaffer Ibn Auf Children Specialized Hospital and Al-ribat University hospital. The study population comprises two groups of children in different ...

Assessment of Pancreas in Diabetic Patients using Ultrasound

Abstract This is experimental study was done in Clinic of ultrasound, Alfao, Algadarif state, Sudan, during the period from June to October 2018, using Sonoscape A6machine with Curvilinear transducer 3.5MHZ to measure the normal spleen dimensions in adult Sudanese, and to correlate these dimensions with the variables of age, gender, height, weight and body mass index, the study was done with the subjects lying in right lateral decubits in deep breath the spleen dimensions were measured by cen...

Measurement of Normal Spleen in Sudanese Adult using Ultrasonography

Abstract This is experimental study was done in Clinic of ultrasound, Alfao, Algadarif state, Sudan, during the period from June to October 2018, using Sonoscape A6machine with Curvilinear transducer 3.5MHZ to measure the normal spleen dimensions in adult Sudanese, and to correlate these dimensions with the variables of age, gender, height, weight and body mass index, the study was done with the subjects lying in right lateral decubits in deep breath the spleen dimensions were measured by cen...


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