Department of Anaesthesia and Critical Care Medicine

Recent Submissions

  • Pain: friend or foe 

    Chinyanga, H. M.; Kalangu, K. K. (1999)
    Pain, the most urgent of symptoms usually signals the presence of potential or on-going injury to tissue which requires attention.The warning that pain provides is, therefore, a good thing and in a way friendly. When pain ...

  • The need for peri-operative supplemental oxygen 

    Chikungwa, M.T.; Jonsson, K. (University of Zimbabwe, College of Health Sciences, 2002)
    Molecular oxygen is a colourless and odourless gas which is essential to life. It accounts for 21% of the atmospheric air. Apart from its central role in oxidative phosphorylation to produce biological energy in the form ...

  • A case report of the use of inflow occlusion and moderate hypothermia for a pulmonary valvotomy: Anaesthetic and surgical management 

    Sleigh, J.W.; Mahalu, W.; Renner, A.A.; Chinyanga, H.M. (University of Zimbabwe, College of Health Sciences, 1986)
    Pulmonary valvotomy was one of the earliest cardiac operations attempted.1 Indeed the success with which it was done did much to dispel the myths of the impossibility of operating on the heart, and ushered in the subsequent ...

  • Traumatic asphyxia during stadium stampede 

    Madzimbamuto, F.D.; Madamombe, T. (University of Zimbabwe, College of Health Sciences, 2004)
    Objectives: To present a series of cases of survivors and non-survivors of traumatic asphyxia from a single mass casualty incident in Zimbabwe and a review of the literature. Design: Descriptive case review. Setting: ...

  • A critical incident reporting system in anaesthesia 

    Madzimbamuto, F.D.; Chiware, R. (University of Zimbabwe, College of Health Sciences, 2001)
    Objective: To audit the recently established Critical Incident Reporting System in the Department of Anaesthesia and Critical Care Medicine, University of Zimbabwe Medical School. The system was set up with the purpose of ...

  • Anaesthesia associated mortality in a district hospital in Zimbabwe: 1994 to 2001 

    Glenshaw, M.; Madzimbamuto, F.D. (University of Zimbabwe, College of Health Sciences, 2005)
    Objective: To describe anaesthetic associated mortality in a district hospital in Zimbabwe. Design: A retrospective descriptive study of anaesthesia associated mortality over an eight year period. Setting: Murambinda Mission ...