Richard Nyeko

TL;DR: Fuid boluses significantly increased 48-hour mortality in critically ill children with impaired perfusion in these resource-limited settings in Africa.

TL;DR: Excess mortality from boluses occurred in all subgroups of children and should prompt a re-evaluation of evidence on fluid resuscitation for shock and are-appraisal of the rate, composition and volume of resuscitation fluids.

TL;DR: Severe anaemia complicates one third of childhood admissions with serious febrile illness to hospitals in East Africa, and is associated with increased mortality, emphasizing the need for rapid recognition and prompt blood transfusion.

TL;DR: Eight clinical prognostic factors that could be rapidly assessed by healthcare staff for triage were combined to create the FEAST Paediatric Emergency Triage (PET) score and externally validated and discriminated those at highest risk of fatal outcome at the point of hospital admission and compared well to other published risk scores.

TL;DR: The use of herbal medicines during pregnancy among women in Gulu district is common, which may be an indicator for poor access to conventional western healthcare and calls for community sensitization drives on the dangers of indiscriminate use of herbals medicine in pregnancy.