Prevalence of bacteraemia in febrile, under-five children in the children’s outpatient clinic of University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Port Harcourt, Nigeria

Prevalence of bacteraemia in febrile, under-five children in the children’s outpatient clinic of University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Port Harcourt, Nigeria

Background: Bacteraemia is the presence of viable bacteria in the circulating blood. The most common manifestation of bacteraemia is fever. Untreated bacteraemia can progress in 10% of children to focal infection and sepsis which can be fatal. Knowledge of the organisms implicated in causing bacteraemia would help in the right choice of antibiotics while awaiting blood culture results. Objectiv...

Eclampsia At the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital Port Harcourt , Nigeria

Backround: Eclampsia remains a significant cause of maternal and peri-natal morbidity and mortality worldwide, particularly in resource poor countries, Nigeria inclusive. It is to a great extent, a preventable obstetric complication and measures required for its prevention, to minimize adverse maternal and peri-natal outcome, are well known and inexpensive. Objectives: To determine the socio-de...

Empiric antibiotic prescription among febrile under-five Children in the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Rivers State, Nigeria

Background: More than 97% of febrile infants and young children have self-limiting viral infection and therefore, would not require antibiotics. Over prescription of antibiotics increases antibiotics exposure and development of resistance among patients. There is need to evaluate empiric antibiotic prescription in order to limit its use to only febrile children with bacterial infection. Aim and...

Prevalence of neonatal septicaemia in the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Nigeria

Prevalence of Astigmatism in Post Operative Cataract in University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Nigeria

Clinical cards of all cataract patients operated on in the eye centre of the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH) between 2002 and 2006 were studied. The study comprised 114 eyes of 100 patients who had cataract surgeries done within the 5-year period of this study. The age of the patients ranged from 6 months to 94 years with mean age of 58.84±19.57years. Data obtained from the...