Outcome of non-traumatic coma in a tertiary referral hospital in Cameroon.

Introduction: Coma is a medical emergency, and optimal management, especially in a resource-poor setting, depends on knowledge of its aetiology and predictors of outcome. This study aimed to provide hospital-based data on the prevalence, etiology, and outcome of non traumatic coma (NTC) in adults at a tertiary level in Cameroon.

Methods: A three year retrospective cohort study of medical records of patients aged 18 years and above, who presented in coma of non-traumatic origin at a Cameroon emergency department (ED) was conducted.

Pre-Therapeutic Assessment of Older People in Sub-Saharan Africa: Introduction to the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment.

: With the ongoing epidemiological transition in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), conditions that require invasive treatment (surgery, cancer, and anaesthesia, etc.) will become increasingly common. Comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) is a multidisciplinary diagnostic process aimed at identifying older people at risk of negative outcomes.

Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of Cameroonian physicians with regards to acute pain management in the emergency department: a multicenter cross-sectional study.

Introduction: Pain is the most frequent presenting complaint in patients consulting or admitted to the emergency department (ED). Thus, its acute management is often done by physicians working in the ED. These clinicians are often general practitioners and not emergency medicine physicians in resource-poor settings.

A case of Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome in a low-resource tertiary hospital in Douala, Cameroon.

The Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome is the congenital absence or underdevelopment of the uterus and vagina even though the external genitalia, ovaries and ovarian function are normal. This condition is uncommon in Cameroon. A 23-year-old woman of the Fulbé tribe, a predominantly Islamic tribe of the northern part of Cameroon, complained of the absence of menstruation after age of puberty and lower abdominal pain occurring almost at the same period every month.