Archives administrator Mrs. Yolette Délius works with paper files for information provision in the Archives of the Ophthalmology Department of State University Hospital Haiti on January 26, 2016. The existing data management architecture is unable to provide reliable indicators for data-driven management and policy due to the lack of financing, digital technologies, adequate human resources, an...

Complete aortic occlusion is rare, but potentially catastrophic. It usually occurs in patients with advanced aortoiliac atherosclerosis, and can cause severe ischaemic manifestations (7). Acute aortic occlusion bears an early mortality of 31–52 % (1, 7) and is caused either by embolic occlusion or by acute thrombosis of the infrarenal abdominal aorta. Between 75–80 % of cases of thrombotic aort...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The rapid development seen in recent years in surgical and anesthetic techniques allowed for an increased indication of invasive procedures. At the same time, with the aging of the population, the postoperative recovery period became the focus of major concern for the healthcare team. For such, new analgesic techniques were developed, among them, Patient Controlled Ana...

INTRODUCTION Study of clinical profile of the patients and diagnostic yield of the selected bronchoscopic procedures gives us important information in clinical decision making and better patient care. There are hardly very few studies regarding these entities. Therefore, we decided to study clinical characteristics and outcomes of the patients who underwent bronchoscopic evaluation in our setti...

The electroencephalogram (EEG), which has been in clinical use for over 70 years, is still an essential tool for diagnosis of neural functioning (Kennett, 2012). Well-known applications of EEGs include identification of epilepsy and epileptic seizures, anoxic and hypoxic damage to the brain, and identification of neural disorders such as hemorrhagic stroke, ischemia and toxic metabolic encephal...

INTRODUCTION Dermatology is primarily an outpatient specialty, but it also plays an important role in the care of inpatients. METHODS We conducted a prospective study that recorded data from inpatient dermatology consultation request forms over a period of four months. The study evaluated 313 requests that led to 566 visits, 86 biopsies, 35 laboratory exams, 41 direct microscopic studies, 18 ...

We analyzed 31 children with myelomeningocele born between July 1990 and July 2000. Follow-up median was 24 months (6-68 months). Only 2 mothers had a known etiologic factor (diabetes mellitus). Twelve had the correct prenatal diagnosis. All children were born at term; 23 by cesarean; 13 had rupture of the membrane. Surgical correction had a 4 days median (1 to 44 days). Lumbosacral lesions wer...

A 1 year review of 529 cases of acute appendicitis, treated at the University Hospital in 1990, was performed. Perforation rate was 23.7% and delay in diagnosis was found to be significant. Patients above 50 years of age were particularly at risk. Diagnostic error was 19.3% and it was a problem not only in young women but also in children. Temperature and rectal examinations were not found to b...