Acute pain management in the trauma patient population: are we doing enough? A prospective observational study.

Purpose: There is a strong correlation between trauma and pain. Pain increases the rate of depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, and even mortality in trauma patients.

Methods: This institution-based, provider-blinded and patient-blinded, observational study was conducted among trauma patients treated at kur Anbessa Specialized Hospital.

Surgical Management of Acute Abdomen in Adult Patients: Experience from a Private Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Background: Acute abdomen is a major surgical problem in Ethiopia with surgery for acute abdominal conditions accounting for roughly one-third of total emergency operations in many centers. This study was conducted with the aim of studying the pattern and outcome of surgically managed acute abdominal cases in a private general hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Methods: This was a retrospective cross-sectional study of acute abdominal cases in adult patients operated at Teklehaimanot General Hospital between January 1, 2018 and August 1, 2019.

Risk Factors that Affect Morbidity and Mortality in Patients with Perforated Peptic Ulcer Diseases in a Teaching Hospital.

Background: This study was done to identify risk factors that affect the morbidity and mortality of patients operated for a perforated peptic ulcer in a resource-limited setting.

Methods: A two years (January 1, 2016 -December 30, 2018) retrospective cross-sectional study was done on patients admitted and operated for PPU at Yekatit 12 Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Results: A total of 93 patients were operated.

Patterns of injury at an Ethiopian referral hospital: Using an institutional trauma registry to inform injury prevention and systems strengthening.

Background: Data about injury patterns and clinical outcomes are essential to address the burden of injury in low- and middle-income countries. Institutional trauma registries (ITRs) are a key tool for collecting epidemiologic data about injury. This study uses ITR data to describe the demographics and patterns of injury of trauma patients in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in order to identify opportunities for injury prevention, systems strengthening and further research.

Pattern of Vascular Diseases at Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Background: Vascular diseases are evolving fast in sub-Saharan Africa, but its management is challenged by lack of expertise and infrastructure. In the light of the prevailing challenge, this study was done to see the pattern of vascular disease and its treatment in a tertiary referral hospital.

Methods: A prospective cross-sectional study was done over a period of one year (February 9, 2016 to February 8, 2017) at Tikur Anbessa specialized hospital (TASH) at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Feasibility of telephone-administered interviews to evaluate long-term outcomes of trauma patients in urban Ethiopia.

Background: Little is known about long-term functional outcomes of trauma patients in low-income and middle-income countries. In sub-Saharan Africa most studies of injury only collect data through emergency department disposition or hospital discharge, and methods of collecting long-term data are subject to significant bias. With the recent increase in access to mobile telephone technology, we hypothesized that structured, telephone-administered interviews now offer a feasible means to collect data about the long-term functional outcomes of trauma patients in urban Ethiopia.

Medical students' choice of specialty and factors determining their choice: a cross-sectional survey at the Addis Ababa University, School oF Medicine, Ethiopia.

Background: A consideration of the future specialization interests of undergraduate medical students might help in understanding the needs of higher medical education and future manpower availability for healthcare in a country.

Objective: This study assessed the career of choice made by medical students of the Addis Ababa University in the year 2012.

Method: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 161 medical students of the Addis Ababa University, School of Medicine, Ethiopia in April 2012 using a self-administered questionnaire.

Review of morbidity and mortality among patients adimitted to the Surgical Intensive Care Unit at Tikur Anbessa Specialized Teaching Hospital, Ethiopia.

Background: Caring for the critically ill is a challenge in developing country including Ethiopia, where heath needs often outstrip available resources. There is scarce data available on morbidity and mortality of surgical intensive care unit patients in Ethiopia.

Objective: To describe mortality, morbidity and outcomes of patients under the care of surgical intensive care unit team between September 2010 and August 2011.

Development and implementation of an emergency medicine graduate training program at Addis Ababa University School of Medicine: challenges and successes.

Background: Ethiopians experience high rates of acute illness and injury that have been sub-optimally addressed by the existing health care system. High rates of patient morbidity and mortality prompted the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) and the Addis Ababa University School of Medicine (AAU-SM) to prioritize the establishment of emergency medicine (EM) as a medical specialty in Ethiopia to meet this acute health system need.

Objectives: To review the EM residency training program developed and implemented at AAU-SM in partnership with the University of Wisconsin (UW), the University of Toronto (UT) and University of Cape Town (UCT) and to evaluate the progress and challenges to date.

Emergency medicine and its development in Ethiopia with emphasis on the role of Addis Ababa University, School of Medicine, Emergency Medicine Department.

Introduction: Globally Emergency Medicine (EM) is young discipline and even in developed countries it is about five decades old. In Ethiopia formal pre-hospital care or hospital based Emergency department (ED) development is a recent phenomenon and this article describes development of Emergency Medicine care in Ethiopia before, around and after Ethiopia millennium.

Methodology: Documents related to emergency medicine development and implementation from different government and nongovernmental data sources are used as a resource for this article.

Squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus presenting with features of intracranial space occupying lesion.

We are reporting on a rare case of a male patient with squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the esophagus presented itself clinically as a pure intracranial space occupying lesion with symptoms of abnormal body movement, hemiplegia and failure to communicate.

The McGill Pain Questionnaire in Amharic: Zwai Health Center patients' reports on the experience of pain.

This paper presents for the first time an Amharic translation of the McGill Pain Questionnaire developed by Melzack and used in many countries around the world. It allows for a quantitative and qualitative assessment of the intensity, location, and nature of experienced pain, as well as conditions that relieve pain. Data collected from one hundred patients attending the Zwai Health Center indicated that 81% reported pain at the time, one-quarter of whom were in severe pain.