Background: The efficacy of postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) prevention
protocols in low and middle-income settings is not well known, and differences in
surgical procedures, available medications, and co-existing ...
BACKGROUNG
Epilepsy as a non- communicable disease is more prevalent in Sub-Saharan Africa where 80 % of 70 million of affected people are found. Recent publications show high treatment gap of up to 78% and stigma rated ...
ABSTRACT
Background: A vast majority of community pharmacists are concentrated in the cities of
Rwanda. There is a wide gap between urban and rural dwellers when it comes to accessing
pharmacy practice. Currently ...
Chronic and acute pain is highly prevalent in the general patient population, and those suffering from chronic illness are at increased risk of untreated pain including cancer patients. Terminally ill cancer patients can ...
Background: Clinical spectrum of COVID-19 disease passes from symptom free or with mild upper respiratory symptoms to the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). The virus may affect different organs. Risk factors to ...
MURWANASHYAKA, Justin(College of science and TechnologyCollege of science and Technology, 2022-12)
These days, vehicles are growing rapidly, and as their number grows, also traffic congestion increases. Many traffic lights are still fixed today by allowing vehicles to pass in sequence after a specified number of minutes ...
Classification of moving objects plays an important role in different real-life applications, especially for security monitoring. Digital Passive InfraRed (PIR) devices are the most used solutions but fail to classify the ...
BIZIMANA, Zephanie(College of Science and TechnologyCollege of Science and Technology, 2022-11-21)
Adequate electricity is a main challenge in low income (developing) countries. Reducing technical and non-technical losses of electricity is, thus, important. This research aims at detecting the non-technical losses that ...
Introduction: Traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) remain a leading cause of mortality and disability
worldwide, and can lead to debilitating intracranial bleeding. We assessed the impact of early or
delayed surgery on the ...
Hakorimana, Fidèle(University of RwandaUniversity of Rwanda, 2022)
Background:
Pain during labor and delivery can be severe and unbearable and differently perceived by parturient. Even with advances in medicine and awareness of labor analgesics, providing epidural for labor analgesia ...
Dr. HITIMANA, Regis(University of RwandaUniversity of Rwanda, 2022)
Background
A key strategy to minimize infant HIV infection rates from Mother-to-child transmission is reducing the mother’s unmet need for contraception and understanding their fertility desires to better accompany them. ...
Background: Ventilator associated pneumonia is linked to a high mortality rate, increased ICU stay and cost. Identification of risk factors may allow a cost-effective setting of preventive measures.
Aim: To assess ...
School headteachers’ leadership is critical to the academic life of both teachers and students in a school. Headteachers, as school leaders hold a position which has a great potential for maintaining and improving the ...
Supporting the learning of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is challenging in an inclusive classroom. Different studies proved no medicine to cure the disease rather than providing
intervention to improve ...
Background and objectives: According to WHO (World Health Organization), Hospital Acquired Infection (HAI) is an infection that is not typically present at the time of admission, and acquired after hospitalization then ...
Introduction: The effective provision of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) increases
patient survival and reduces in-hospital mortality. As nurses are the front-line professionals in Hospital settings, it is very ...
BACK GROUND:
Globally, about 130 million neonates are delivered every year with an estimated 4 million deaths happening within 4 weeks after birth and 1, 5 million of those deaths are caused by infections. In absence of ...
DAPHINE, KERUBO NYANDONDI(University of Rwanda, 2019)
Background To maintain a reliable vaccine cold chain, different key procedures need to be observed during storage, transportation, handling, and administration to the end user. Otherwise, there will be loss of vaccine ...
Background:
To maintain normal temperature in pediatric patients is problematic. Hypothermia can cause physiological derangements including coagulopathy, decreased drug metabolism and vasoconstriction. Patients who develop ...
Background:
Despite availability of methods to manage labor pain, there is a big disparity in labor analgesia knowledge and access between low and high-income countries. Laboring women have significant pain. Healthcare ...