Dorothy Kyeyune

TL;DR: Among children with lactic acidosis due to severe anemia, transfusion of longer-storage compared with shorter-storage RBC units did not result in inferior reduction of elevated blood lactate levels, and these findings have relevance regarding the efficacy of stored RBC transfusion for patients with critical tissue hypoxia and lactic acids due to anemia.

TL;DR: If confirmed by the trial, a cheap and widely available ‘bundle’ of effective interventions, directed at immediate and downstream consequences of severe anaemia, could lead to substantial reductions in mortality in a substantial number of African children hospitalised withsevere anaemia every year, if widely implemented.

TL;DR: The level of consciousness, hemoglobin concentration, blood lactate level, and thigh muscle tSo2 level were poor predictors of cerebral oxygen saturation, and more studies are needed to evaluate the use of noninvasive cerebral tissue oximetry in the care of children with severe anemia.

TL;DR: In this article, the efficacy of CCP for treatment of COVID-19 in Uganda was evaluated in a randomized trial, where patients with positive SARS-CoV-2 reverse transcriptase (RT)-PCR test irrespective of disease severity were hospitalised and randomised to receive either CCP plus standard of care (SOC) or SOC alone.

TL;DR: In November 2014, a 3-day conference devoted to transfusion medicine in sub-Saharan Africa was held in Kampala, Uganda, with a broad overview of issues pertinent to transfusions medicine in Africa.