Anesthesia for inguinal hernia repair: Experience with a tertiary hospital-based surgical outreach in a developing world.

Background: The dearth of adequate facilities and anesthetists limits the number and extent of surgical cases that can be attended to in surgical outreach programs. Inguinal hernia remains a common health burden in the developing world. Tertiary hospitals provide good anesthetic complements to safe surgeries and will be a veritable tool in surgical outreaches.

Diagnostic value of abdominal ultrasonography in patients with blunt abdominal trauma.

Background: Various investigative modalities are used to detect intra-abdominal injury requiring surgical intervention. Ultrasonography (US) is a cheap, readily available, safe and non-invasive investigation used in the evaluation of patients with blunt abdominal trauma. Patients are subjected to no added risk of radiation.

Circumcision: experience at a private hospital in jos, Nigeria.

Background: Most circumcisions in our environment are carried out in children for religious and cultural reasons. The PlastiBell device has been used for several decades, though some complications have been associated with its use.

Aims And Objectives: This study examines the safety and acceptability of the PlastiBell device, which was used in circumcision in the majority of patients studied.

Surgical outreach program in poor rural Nigerian communities.

Introduction: The majority of the world's population resides in rural areas without access to basic surgical care. Taraba State in North-Eastern Nigeria consists of rural communities where approximately 90% of the State's population resides.

Methods: This was a prospective study of patients whose surgical conditions were treated during surgical outreach program in rural North-Eastern Nigeria communities between February 2008 and July 2009.