Volume 43, Number 5

May 2014

Schizophrenia: No Health Without Physical Health

Schizophrenia is a severe and chronic mental disorder, with onset routinely occurring in late adolescence. It is associated with the poorest outcomes among all described psychotic conditions, and there is currently no cure. However, effective treatments are available to mitigate some of the psychiatric symptoms, and more recent studies...

Use of Endobronchial Ultrasound-guided Transbronchial Needle Aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) in the Diagnosis of Granulomatous Mediastinal Lymphadenopathy

The clinical utility and safety of endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) in the diagnosis and mediastinal staging of patients with non-small cell lung has been well established with diagnostic accuracies reported at 85% to 100%, and a negative predictive value of 11% to 97.4%. Of all the other...

Systemic Candidiasis in Extremely Low Birthweight (ELBW) Neonates Despite the Routine Use of Topical Miconazole Prophylaxis: Trends, Risk Factors and Outcomes over an 11-Year Period

Systemic candidiasis in extremely low birth weight (ELBW) neonates is associated with a high mortality, as well as short- and long-term morbidities. The incidence of systemic candidiasis in the very low birth weight neonates is less than 10% but it is higher in the ELBW cohort. It varies in...

The Looi Suture Technique for Anchoring the Lateral Tarsal Strip to the Lateral Orbital Wall

The lateral tarsal strip (LTS) procedure was first described by Anderson and Gordy in 1979 for the management of paralytic or senile eyelid laxity and lateral canthal tendon laxity. The procedure described by the authors involved lateral canthotomy and inferior cantholysis, dividing the lid into anterior and posterior lamellae,...

The Golden Hours in Paediatric Septic Shock—Current Updates and Recommendations

Sepsis in children is a global health issue. The Global Health Observatory estimates that 58% of deaths in children under 5 years old are caused by infectious diseases. Mortality increases as sepsis progresses to septic shock. The implementation of childhood vaccination programmes and the advent of vaccines such as...