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Low BMI as a predictor of duration of hospital stay among intestinal obstruction patients undergoing emergency laparotomy in Mulago Hospital
(Makerere University, 2013-06)
BACKGROUND: Despite improved surgical techniques and efforts to ensure that surgery is safe for the patient, abdominal surgery is still associated with a certain risk of morbidity and mortality. This risk increases with ...
Prevalence and patterns of deep venous thrombosis in patients with acute traumatic spinal cord injury at Mulago Hospital.
(Makerere University, 2013)
Background: Spinal cord injured patients are at high risk of developing DVT. This is because spinal cord injury favours two of the Virchow’s triad of factors for DVT; thus endothelial injury (trauma) and immobility (venous ...