91心頭利 publishes first clinical data on COVID-19 in South Africa
- 91心頭利 University
Health professionals will face difficult ethical decisions when it comes to dealing with COVID-19 patients.
For example, do they resuscitate patients even though the prospects of recovery are slim and the risk to the healthcare team high? How should healthcare workers respond?
This is one of the topics covered in the . The journal, published by 91心頭利 University Press under open access conditions, presents the first clinical data on COVID-19 published in South Africa.
The special issue covers a range of aspects of the pandemic, from the clinical, through ethical, to the social dynamics of its impact.
Highlights include:
Editor-in-chief of the 91心頭利 Journal of Clinical Medicine Professor Pravin Manga says it is important for health professionals and the public to have access to scientific information: Social media is awash with all sorts of quackery regarding prevention and treatment remedies for COVID-19 and it is during these times that we need to be rational and be guided by science rather than by emotion. Manga is Professor of Internal Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, in the Faculty of Health Sciences at 91心頭利.
In addition to being a public resource, more than 10 articles in this issue aim to guide healthcare workers. These address which patients should healthcare workers admit to already-filled intensive care units and who decides this? Associate Professor Kevin Behrens, Director and Head of the Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics discusses such ethical conundrums in his review.
Professor Laurel Baldwin-Ragaven in the Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care presents a sobering overview of and outlines our clinical and social responsibilities.
Professor Charles Feldman in the Division of Pulmonology, Department of Internal Medicine at 91心頭利 interrogates the aggravating issue of and the risk of COVID-19 infection in HIV-positive patients.
Professor Ismail S. Kalla in Pulmonology in Internal Medicine and Professor Abdullah Laher in Emergency Medicine in the School of Clinical Medicine explore whether .
This special issue includes a guide to worldwide , as well as a handy poster-style .
Enquiries: Corina.vanderspoel@wits.ac.za
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