Table of Contents
Cover
Cover | |
Contents
Contents | |
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Guest Editorial
Physiotherapy in the intensive care unit | |
Susan Hanekom | 3 |
Articles
Physiotherapy contributions to weaning and extubation of patients from mechanical ventilation | |
Dipna Morar, Heleen Van Aswegen | 6 |
Physiotherapy practice in South African intensive care units | |
Helena van Aswegen, M Lottering | 11 |
Reducing paediatric ventilator-associated pneumonia – a South African challenge! | |
Heide Kunzmann, Konstantinos Dimitriades, Brenda May Morrow, Andrew Charles Argent | 17 |
An observational study on the relationship between plasma vitamin C, blood glucose, oxidative stress, endothelial dysfunction and outcome in patients with septic shock | |
Kondwani George Happy Katundu, Lauren T Hill, Lester M Davids, Ivan A Joubert, Malcolm G A Miller, Jenna L Piercy, William L Michelle | 21 |
Incidence and risk factors for thrombocytopenia in the intensive care units of a tertiary hospital in northern India | |
Chitra Mehta, Joby v George, Yatin Mehta, M Tariq Ali, Manish Kumar Singh | 28 |
Case reports
Post-tracheostomy tracheo-oesophageal fistula – an unusual presentation | |
Deepa Chandramohan, Shaila S Kamat, Ravindran V | 32 |
Abstracts
Abstracts of scientific presentations at the 2016 Annual National Conference of the Critical Care Society of Southern Africa | |
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