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Haemodialysis: Renal Replacement Therapy, Vascular Access and Nursing Care
Presentation on haemodialysis as renal replacement therapy in acute kidney injury and chronic kidney disease: overview of kidney functions, definitions and indications, the dialysis process and vascular access, and the nursing care involved. Anthony Chesire.
Gynaecology: Witwatersrand Departmental Clinical Protocol
Pocket protocol for registrars, medical officers, interns and students in the Wits academic gynaecology units: pre-operative blood tests, history and examination, lower abdominal pain, ectopic pregnancy and ovarian cysts. Externally authored by the University of the Witwatersrand; not a KMTC document.
Gynaecology: Sexually Transmitted and Reproductive Tract Infections
Notes distinguishing STIs from reproductive tract infections, then routes of transmission, facilitating factors and the management of the common genital infections.
Gynaecology: Reproductive Health and Safe Motherhood Module Unit
Module unit opening on reproductive health and safe motherhood definitions, then puberty, the menstrual cycle, menopause, abortion, ectopic pregnancy, ovarian tumours, infertility and family planning methods.
Gynaecologic Nursing: Midwifery Block Reproductive Health Notes
Handout stating the block objective and content, then vulval and internal genital anatomy, the menstrual cycle, history taking and bimanual pelvic examination.
Gynaecological Emergencies: Acute Pelvic Pain and Emergency Presentations
Slide deck on the acute gynaecological presentation: the four emergency presentations, gynaecologic versus non-gynaecologic causes of pelvic pain, the assessment approach, pelvic inflammatory disease, ectopic pregnancy and ovarian torsion.
Haematology: Blood Composition, Haemopoiesis and Anaemias
Introduction to haematology: plasma and serum, haemopoiesis, red cell, white cell and platelet physiology, iron-deficiency and megaloblastic anaemias, thalassaemia, sickle cell disease, and bleeding and clotting disorders.
Reproductive Health: Factors Contributing to Non-Utilisation of Tubal Ligation
Two-student nursing research project on why women of reproductive age attending the MCH/FP clinic at Kombewa District Hospital do not use tubal ligation: exploratory design, 152 respondents, with findings, conclusions and recommendations. UEAB Baraton, NRSG 423, supervised by Dr David Deya.
Haemolytic Anaemias: Haemoglobin Defects and Sickle Cell Disease
Numbered lecture outline on haemoglobin defects: genetic control of globin synthesis, normal haemoglobin proportions, and the inherited and acquired haemolytic anaemias.
Gynaecology: History, Examination and Management Notes
Gynaecology revision in note form: history with pain assessed by SOCRATES, discharge, prolapse, incontinence and menstrual history, systems enquiry, general and abdominal examination, then the common conditions and their management. Externally authored by Alex Harkness; not a KMTC lecture.
Haematological Nursing: Blood Diseases, Anaemia, Leukaemia and Bleeding Disorders
Nursing block on blood diseases: review of blood anatomy and physiology with a formed-elements table, then anaemia, sickle cell disease, polycythaemia vera, leukaemia, agranulocytosis and bleeding disorders. C. Mwangi.
Nursing Health Assessment: Head-to-Toe Examination Sequence
Head-to-toe assessment walk-through: the inspection-palpation-percussion-auscultation order and the abdomen's inspection-auscultation-percussion-palpation exception, privacy and hand hygiene, then system-by-system examination findings.
