Article reference: How inequity threatens the lives of pregnant women: barriers to accessing health services during an incomplete miscarriage in rural southern Mexico. Karen Gutiérrez-Peláez, Zeus Aranda, Andrea Jiménez-Peña and Hellen Mata-González The case report “How inequity threatens the lives of pregnant women: barriers to accessing health services during an incomplete miscarriage in rural […]
Category: Global Health
Alleviating diabetes distress and improving diabetes self-management through health coaching in a primary care setting
Article reference: Chima CC, Swanson B, Anikpezie N, et al, Alleviating diabetes distress and improving diabetes self-management through health coaching in a primary care setting, BMJ Case Reports CP 2021;14:e241759. Chronic medical diseases such as hypertension, diabetes and heart disease can greatly burden a patient with recurrent need for daily medication adherence and lifestyle changes. In this global health case […]
Surviving violent, traumatic loss after severe political persecution: lessons from the evaluation of a Venezuelan asylum seeker; McQuaid et al
Article Reference: McQuaid JH, Silva MA, McKenzie KC, Surviving violent, traumatic loss after severe political persecution: lessons from the evaluation of a Venezuelan asylum seeker, BMJ Case Reports CP 2021;14:e239025. McQuaide et al present a different kind of global health case report: when global health reaches our backyard. Immigration health has always been a concern but more so in the […]
Specialist shortage in developing countries: comprehending delays in care
Reference: Khan KJ, Raza VF Specialist shortage in developing countries: comprehending delays in care, BMJ Case Reports CP 2021;14:e235542. In developed countries we take appendectomies or cholecystectomies as minor bred and butter procedures. These are life saving procedures often performed in due time in developed countries. The case presented to us by Khan & Raza underlines the difficulty in […]
Traumatic subdural haematoma: integrating case-based clinical judgement with guidelines
Reference: Samitinjay A, Karri SR, Khairkar P, et al. Traumatic subdural haematoma: integrating case-based clinical judgement with guidelines, BMJ Case Reports CP 2020;13:e233197. Samitinjay et al. bring up two very crucial points in this case report: the importance of being able to deviate from guidelines which were not written with developing country resources in mind, and the necessity to train surgical […]
Overcoming the health system barriers to early diagnosis and management of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in a rural setting in North India
Bashar MA, Aggarwal A, Bhattacharya S. BMJ Case Rep 2020;13:e231009. doi:10.1136/bcr-2019- 231009 According to the World Health organization (WHO), Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the top ten causes of mortality worldwide and the leading cause from a single infectious agent[1]. Though the incidence of TB is decreasing at a rate of 2% a year, the incidence in 2018 […]
Kangaroo mother care: need of the day
Neonatal mortality figures in developing globally as of 2016 was 19 per 1000 live birth [1], 28% due to preterm birth [2]. Prematurity, babies born prior to 37 weeks of gestation, puts newborns at risk for infections, hypothermia, development delay, visual disorders and long term morbidity. In developed countries Neonatal Intensive Care Units where trained […]
Use of home telemedicine for critical illness rehabilitation: an Indian success story.
Unnikrishnan et al. Present a case report of a 26 year old male with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy who benefited from the use of Telemedicine in the setting post-ICU rehabilitation. The Who defines Telemedicine as follows: “the delivery of healthcare services, where distance is a critical factor, by all healthcare professionals using information and communication technologies […]
The global opioid crisis
The opioid crisis, “the misuse of and addiction to opioids—including prescription pain relievers, heroin, and synthetic opioids,” is a global phenomenon.[1] While it has increasingly been described in North America, it is becoming evident throughout the world.[2] [3]The reasons for this are manifold. In “Physician’s role in prescribing opioids in developing countries,” Roa et al […]
Managing traumatic amputation and prosthetics in the developing world
In, “Clinical management of quadriplegia in low and middle-income countries: a patient’s road to physiotherapy, prostheses and rehabilitation,” Choong et al provide follow-up on a patient they had previously described. The follow-up was largely concerned with how the patient arranged chronic care after losing all four limbs in a traumatic electrical accident. Through a crowd-sourced […]