Background: The benefits of Pain relief to parturients in labour cannot be over-emphasized. However, in low middle income countries accessibility, availability and affordability these services are not optimum. This has made it near impossible for women in labour to benefit from e...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2020/v32i1630619
Introduction: Caesarean section (Cs) is a surgical procedure carried out to prevent adverse maternal and fetal outcome. Aversion to Cs may constitute a major obstacle to safe motherhood. Some for pregnant women not accepting Cs are socio-cultural, religious, ethnic or economical....
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2020/v32i1630620
Background: The prevalence of diabetes mellitus (DM) have tripled from 1980 till date as a result of many factors of which obesity/excessive weight gain is a closely related factor of DM. There are many adverse challenges of DM in pregnancy with its associated fetal and maternal...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2020/v32i1630621
Background/Purpose: Malaria is an established health challenge and a major cause of mortality and morbidity among under-five children in Nigeria. This community-based study was designed to assess the effect of health education packages on the malaria control practices of mothers...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2020/v32i1530607
Introduction: Tracheostomy is one of the most common procedures that done to critical patients such as head injury ones to improve their situation. It is done by creating an anterior stoma in the neck and inserting a short tube to maintain stoma open. Objective: The objective of...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2020/v32i1530611
Background: Fracture femur is common in elderly. Spinal anesthesia (SA) in elderly patients can be associated with major hemodynamic changes whereas lumbar plexus block (LPB) can provide ideal perioperative analgesia as there is no hemodynamic instability or depression of pulmona...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2020/v32i1530612
Tuberculosis has re-emerged as a serious health concern as a result of AIDS epidemic, immigration from areas where the disease is endemic and multi drug resistance, with 8.8 million patients affected worldwide in 2010. Infections with mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTb) are globally...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2020/v32i1530605
Introduction: There are varied scrotal findings in subfertile males of which ultrasonography is a readily available, non-ionizing and reproducible imaging modality of choice for proper assessment. Aim: To identify the patterns of scrotal ultrasonographic findings in suspected sub...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2020/v32i1530606
This systematic review (SR) synthesises recent evidence and assesses the methodological quality of published SRs in the Differential diagnosis of temporomandibular disorders (TMD). A systematic literature search was conducted in the PubMed, Cochrane Library, and Bandolier databas...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2020/v32i1530604
Daniele Melo Sardinha, Pedrinha do Socorro Castro dos Prazeres, Rubenilson Caldas Valois, Erivelton do Carmo Baia, Gabriel Fazzi Costa, Juliana Conceição Dias Garcez, Diana da Costa Lobato, Lidiane Assunção de Vasconcelos, Ana Lúcia da Silva Ferreira, Eimar Neri de Oliveira Junior & Ana Gracinda Ignácio Da Silva·Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research·2020
Objective: Describe the epidemiological profile of patients seen in an outpatient clinic in a region of the Amazon. Methodology: A cross-sectional, exploratory, descriptive survey with a quantitative approach, conducted in an outpatient clinic of health specialties of a Private H...
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Research Article10.9734/jammr/2020/v32i1530603