Publications by authors named "B J Arekhandia"
Article Synopsis
- Traumatic brain injury (TBI) significantly impacts victims, and understanding its prevalence, demographics, and causes is crucial for developing effective prevention and management strategies.
- A study conducted at Lagos University Teaching Hospital analyzed data from 125 adult TBI patients, revealing a high male-to-female ratio and a mean age of about 41 years, with 67.2% of injuries resulting from road traffic accidents.
- The findings indicate that most patients lack health insurance, highlighting the need for expanded national health coverage to better support individuals suffering from TBI.
Posterior communicating aneurysm (PCOM) commonly presents with ptosis of the eye. This is so also with space occupying lesion compressing the oculomotor nerve. It is quite uncommon for a patient to have both lesions at the same anatomical space concurrently causing ptosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Intracranial subdural empyema (SDE) is a seemingly uncommon life-threatening ailment with varying presentations and outcomes. A variety of risk factors have been associated with predisposition to intracranial SDEs; however, they may be cryptogenic. There is an increased predilection for intracranial SDE in children and teenagers with paranasal sinusitis or middle ear infections.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground/objective: Inefficient nursing care of chest drains may associated with unacceptable and sometimes life-threatening complications. This report aims to ascertain the level of knowledge of care of chest drains among nurses working in wards in a teaching hospital in Nigeria.
Methods: A cross-sectional study among nurses at teaching hospital using pretested self-administered questionnaires.
Background: Venous thromboembolism is a potentially dangerous condition that can lead to preventable morbidity and mortality among surgical patients.
Objectives: We aimed to determine the knowledge and practice of surgeons practising in Tertiary Hospitals in Nigeria about prophylaxis of deep vein thrombosis (DVT).
Materials And Methods: Eight Tertiary Institutions were selected from institutions in the geopolitical regions of the country by simple random sampling using balloting method.