Background Bloodstream infections (BSIs) produced by antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB)
cause a substantial disease burden worldwide. However, most estimates come from high …

Background Health-care resource constraints in low-income and middle-income countries
necessitate the identification of cost-effective public health interventions to address COVID …

Trauma is a global health problem with an unevenly distributed impact, the major brunt
borne by low-and middle-income countries (LMICs), where more than 90% of worldwide …

Low-and middle-income countries are implementing COVID-19 vaccination strategies in
light of varying vaccine efficacies and costs, supply shortages, and resource constraints …

Background Given projected shortages of critical care capacity in public hospitals during the
COVID-19 pandemic, the South African government embarked on an initiative to purchase …

Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has had a devastating impact globally,
with severe health and economic consequences. To prepare health systems to deal with the …

Aim This paper describes the development of the training programme for South African
professional nurses on how to manage critically ill COVID‐19 patients in intensive care units …

Background: Internationally, Mobile Stroke Unit (MSU) ambulances have changed pre-
hospital acute stroke care delivery. MSU clinical and cost-effectiveness studies are …

A bstract Intensive care unit (ICU) service is resource-intense, finite, and valuable. The
outcome of critically ill patients has improved because of a better understanding of disease …

Introduction Organophosphate poisoning (OPP) is a major health-care burden in South
Africa. Recently, we have observed that patients admitted to our Intensive Care Unit (ICU) …