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The benefits and risks of vasoactive agents
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia • Authors: RP Von Rahden --- Clinical Unit; Department of Anaesthesia,Current shock resuscitation strategies require titration of fluid in combination with inotropes and vasopressors to counteract the actual pattern of circulatory abnormality in the patient, and to restore the circulation to a level that is adequate to prevent organ ischaemia... -
Intraoperative point-of-care testing
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia • Authors: RP Von Rahden --- Clinical Unit; Department of Anaesthesia,Point-of-care devices offer an increasing number of analytical tests more quickly than laboratory analysis, but clinicians must be aware of the limitations of these devices, especially for critical threshold-level decisions. Glucometers are susceptible to a wide range of errors, and... -
Rhetoric and anthropology
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Philippe-Joseph Salazar --- Centre for Rhetoric Studies, Department of Social Anthropology, South AfricaThis essay deals with the relationship between rhetoric and anthropology, along three main lines of argument. The author offers reflections on the relationship between the two fields, highlighting contentious intersections, as in the case of the French anthropological tradition. He... -
Relationship between nutritional status and treatment-related neutropenia in children with nephroblastoma
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Authors: Kelly S Draper --- Dietetics and Human Nutrition, South Africa GP Hadley --- Department of Paediatric Surgery, South Africa Kirthee Pillay --- Dietetics and Human Nutrition, South Africa Nicola L Wiles --- Dietetics and Human Nutrition, South AfricaBackground: Assessment of nutritional status of paediatric oncology patients is crucial, as it may influence treatment and clinical outcomes. Concurrent malnutrition and cancer in children may lead to reduced chemotherapy delivery due to impaired tolerance and increased toxicity. -
Contesting the Subaltern Narrative: The Trickster Trope in the Kenyan Political Autobiography
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Stephen Mutie --- , KenyaThis article is a critique of the idea of subalternity 1 as it is used in the Kenyan political autobiographies of leaders who have reigned but never ruled. 2 The study is largely located within postcolonial theory, with particular emphasis... -
Cardioglossa liberiensis Barbour & Loveridge 1927 is a junior synonym of Phrynobatrachus fraterculus (Chabanaud 1921)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: The Journal of the Herpetological Association of Africa • Authors: DavidC. Blackburn --- Harvard University, U.S.A.In 1927, Barbour & Loveridge described two species of Cardioglossa based on seven specimens from Liberia: C. decorata (six specimens) and C. liberiensis. Cardioglossa decorata has long been recognized as a junior synonym of Phrynobatrachus fraterculus (Chabanaud 1921), which is...