Publications by authors named "Isaac Kihurani"
Pediatric emergency care (PEC) training for health care workers (HCWs) is commonly offered in the form of short courses. This study gathers the perspectives of HCWs from eight African countries on how to best deliver and implement short training courses in PEC. This is a qualitative study using semi-structured key informant (KI) interviews.
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- The study highlights the underestimation of congenital heart disease (CHD) in Africa due to under-reporting and early mortality rates.
- It investigates the prevalence and factors linked to late diagnosis of CHD in pediatric patients at three hospitals in Kenya over five years, finding that 60.6% of patients were diagnosed after the age of one.
- Key factors affecting late diagnosis include the presence of a cardiac murmur and parental education level, emphasizing the need for improved early detection and screening practices to lower CHD-related health issues.
Road traffic crashes are a significant cause of the disease burden among children, with the highest mortality in low- and middle-income countries. This observational study explores such injuries in Cape Town, South Africa through an analysis of data for cases in 1992, 2002 and 2012 at the Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital, a referral paediatric hospital for children younger than 13 years. Descriptive and time trend analysis of demographic data as well as of the causes, severity and place of injury was conducted.
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