Colonoscopy findings in patients with haematochezia in Benin (South-South Nigeria): A 9-year prospective study.

Background: Colonoscopy is an important armamentarium in the investigation of haematochezia. Patients with haematochezia are very anxious about the presence of blood in their faeces. They are usually referred for diagnostic colonoscopy based on the presence of blood in stool or anaemia.

Discharge Against Medical Advice (DAMA) in Adult Emergency Department of a Tertiary Hospital in Nigeria.

Background: Patients who discharge against medical advice are at increased risk of morbidity and mortality as well as posing a serious burden for the hospital especially when re-admitted.

Aim: To determine the demographics, prevalence, clinical diagnosis and reasons for discharge against medical advice adult Emergency Department.

Methods: This was a retrospective descriptive study, carried out over one year period from June 2018 to May 2019 at University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria.

Five years after commencing the objective structured clinical examination: are we getting it right? Medical students' assessment as the measuring index.

Introduction: The aim of this study was to assess our use of OSCE from the perception of final year medical students.

Materials And Methods: This is a cross sectional survey of final year medical students undergoing the final examination in Surgery. All 102 medical students in the class were given the self-administered questionnaire to fill.

Neuroleptic malignant syndrome in a young adult female at the university of Benin Teaching Hospital: a case report.

Background: Neuroleptic malignant syndrome is a rare but life-threatening idiosyncratic complication following the use of antipsychotic agents, anaesthesia and surgery. It is characterized by hyperthermia, muscle rigidity, autonomic disturbances and mental state alterations.

Case: A 31 year old female weighing 60kg received a depot preparation of Fluphenazine on account of depression with psychotic features observed two days prior to elective Cholecystectomy under general anaesthesia.

Intestinal obstruction secondary to cecal endometriosis.

Endometriosis of the gastrointestinal tract is rare and occurs in <1% of all patients undergoing major gynecological surgeries. Bowel involvement has been reported in 3%-37% of all women of childbearing age with endometriosis. Total obstruction of the gastrointestinal tract occurs in <1% of cases of endometriosis with bowel obstruction.