Journal ArticlePLoS One · 2025
In Rwanda, alcohol use disorder (AUD) is estimated to affect 7% of the population. The Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT) is an excellent screening instrument for AUD, but a Rwanda-focused version previously was unavailable. Our objective was ...
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Journal ArticleAfr J Emerg Med · March 2024
In high-income countries, outcomes following in hospital cardiac arrest have improved over the last two decades due to the introduction of rapid response teams, cardiac arrest teams, and advanced resuscitation training. However, in low-income countries, su ...
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Journal ArticlePan Afr Med J · 2023
INTRODUCTION: as the opportunity to receive life-sustaining treatments expands in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), so do potential ethical dilemmas. Little is known regarding the attitudes, beliefs, and practices of physicians in SSA regarding end-of-life care et ...
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Journal ArticleRwanda Medical Journal · January 1, 2023
INTRODUCTION: The burden of injuries is high in low- and middle-income countries where pre-hospital systems are being developed to improve acute injury care. This study compares the characteristics and outcomes between trauma patients transported by formal ...
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Journal ArticleJ Rural Health · June 2022
PURPOSE: The opioid epidemic in the United States continues to grow, particularly impacting rural communities served by critical access hospitals (CAHs) in Maine. Buprenorphine is an effective medication for the treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD) that ...
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Journal ArticlePerspect Biol Med · 2021
A tunnel collapses in Africa, fatally injuring a young miner. Common concepts of individual liability are inadequate to account for the injustice that led to his death. A social connection model elucidates the underlying structural injustice and the respon ...
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Journal ArticleWest J Emerg Med · October 14, 2019
INTRODUCTION: Musculoskeletal injuries (MSI) comprise a large portion of the trauma burden in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). Rwanda recently launched its first emergency medicine training program (EMTP) at the University Teaching Hospital-Kigali ...
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Journal ArticleAnn Am Thorac Soc · September 2019
Rationale: Despite oxygen's classification as an essential medication by the World Health Organization, it is inconsistently available in many resource-constrained settings. Hypoxemia is associated with increased mortality, and mounting evidence suggests t ...
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Journal ArticlePerspect Biol Med · 2016
This essay argues for a reorientation in medicine, a reorientation that integrates Descartes's tree-like approach to medical knowledge, which positions medical care in traditional, vertically hierarchical processes of patient differentiation, with the rhiz ...
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Journal ArticleEmergency Medicine · December 1, 2015
A 32-year-old woman presented for evaluation of upper arm pain and swelling after sustaining a work-related injury several days earlier. ...
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Journal ArticleJ Exp Zool A Comp Exp Biol · August 1, 2006
Invertebrates at hydrothermal vents and cold seeps must cope with high levels of toxic H2S. In addition, these and all marine invertebrates must balance internal osmotic pressure with that of the ocean. Cells usually do so with organic osmolytes, primarily ...
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