Publications by authors named "Moruf Babatunde Yusuf"
Introduction And Importance: Osteomyelitis is a bone infection that can occur as a rare late complication of electrical burns. It may occur in any bony part of the body where there has been an electrical burn injury. Osteomyelitis occurs several weeks or months after the initial infection, and can persist for several months or years, and is difficult to manage.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Surgical checklist was introduced by the World Health Organization to reduce the number of surgical deaths and complications. During a surgical conference on "safety in surgical practice," it was noticed that the awareness and the use of surgical checklist are poor in Nigerian hospitals. This study was aimed at determining the awareness and use of surgical checklist among the theater users in our hospital, factors militating against its implementation, and make recommendations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Self-discharge by patients without completing their treatment is a problematic issue in healthcare and is strongly associated with readmission and poor treatment outcome.
Patients And Methods: A descriptive study of the rate and reasons why patients with limb injuries took self-discharge against medical advice (DAMA) from our facility, Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria, a tertiary health institution between May 2011 and April 2014.
Results: One hundred and thirty-one (16.
Background: Pathologic or spontaneous fractures are recognised causes of morbidity in children. There is a paucity of data on their aetiology and patterns in African children.
Methods: A combined retrospective and prospective study of 47 children aged 15 and below with pathologic fractures of long bones seen from January 2000 to December 2006.