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Non metabolic causes of pathological fractures in Kenyatta National Hospital
(University of Nairobi., 2003)
This was a prospective study over a period of 10 months from the month of April 2002 to
January 2003. The purpose of the study was to determine the pattern of non metabolic
causes of pathological fractures in Kenyatta ...
Management and survival in advanced prostate cancer in Nairobi.
(2000-05)
Objective:
To evaluate the management and survival of patients with advanced prostate cancer in this locality.
Design:
A prospective case study.
Setting:
Kenyatta National Referral Hospital and the Nairobi and Mater ...
Anaesthesia in the new millennium; new drug, routes and delivery systems
(University of Nairobi, 2004)
Researchers in both human and veterinary anaesthesia continue searching for better and safer anaesthetics substances which can cause damage and even death if given in incorrect doses or concentrations. Apart from looking ...
East African Orthopaedic Journal
(African Journal Online, 2007)
The aim of the journal is to give orthopedic surgeons, technologists and other personnel within the orthopedic specialty a forum of diverging their research findings to the rest of the world. The journal comprises of ...
Effectiveness of syndromic management of vaginal discharge at specialized treatment center (casino) Nairobi.
(University of Nairobi, 2009)
BACKGROUND: Syndromic management is a World Health Organization (WHO) strategy for the management of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI). Diagnosis is based on identification of syndromes, which are combinations of ...
Factors affecting provision of oral care by nurses in the intensive care unit at the Kenyatta national hospital
(University of Nairobi,, 2007)
Background: Intensive care unit (leU) patients have complex oral care needs.
Inadequate oral care may predispose ICU patients to nosocomial infections.
Recentinitiatives have sought to improve the qua1ityand evidence ...
Knowledge, attitudes and practices of registered nurses on scientific nursing research at the Kenyatta National Hospital
(2006)
Scientific Nursing Research is defined as the systematic process of investigating phenomena
related to nursing with the aim or adding to the nursing body of knov, ledge, to improve practice
and for better health care ...
Development of Orthopaedics in Kenya
(2007)
It is difficult to say at what point Orthopaedics in
Kenya broke away from general surgery. All over
the world, orthopaedics has developed as an off
shoot of general surgery. There are various forms
of practice of ...
Experience with breast cancer in a single oncology clinic in Nairobi
(University of Nairobi, 2006)
Combinations of anthracyclines and cyclophosphamide ± 5-FU are widely used in treatment of breast cancer (BC) in the adjuvant setting. Addition of taxanes is beneficial. For Her2-positive tumours addition of herceptin may ...
Effects of use of latex rubber gloves by dental students at the dental school, faculty of dental sciences
(University of Nairobi, 2008)
Introduction: Latex is the material that rubber gloves are made of. The powder inside gloves and even the latex itself may elicit a latex reaction on the handler of the gloves or the patient. Latex reactions have become ...