Preventable trauma deaths in the Western Cape of South Africa: A consensus-based panel review.

Injury causes 4.4 million deaths worldwide annually. 90% of all injury-related deaths occur in low-and-middle income countries.

Feasibility of conducting a military-relevant multicenter cohort study to assess outcomes of early trauma resuscitative interventions in a prolonged care civilian setting.

Background: The Epidemiology and Outcomes of Prolonged Trauma Care (EpiC) study is a 4-year, prospective, observational, large-scale epidemiologic study in South Africa. It will provide novel evidence on how early resuscitation impacts postinjury mortality and morbidity in patients experiencing prolonged care. A pilot study was performed to inform the main EpiC study.

Assessment of documented adherence to critical actions in paediatric emergency care at a district-level public hospital in South Africa.

Introduction: The provision of high-quality care is vital to improve child health and survival rates. A simple, practice-based tool was recently developed to evaluate the quality of paediatric emergency care in resource-limited settings in Africa. This study used the practice-based tool to describe the documented adherence to critical actions in paediatric emergency care at an urban district-level hospital in South Africa and assess its relation to clinical outcomes.

Emergency centre reorganization in preparation to the COVID-19 pandemic: A district hospital's dynamic adaptation response.

The COVID-19 global pandemic forced healthcare facilities to put special isolation measures in place to limit nosocomial transmission. Cohorting is such a measure and refers to placing infected patients (or under investigation) together in a designated area. This report describes the physical reorganisation of the emergency centre at Khayelitsha Hospital, a district level hospital in Cape Town, South Africa in preparation to the COVID-19 pandemic.

A comparison of trauma scoring systems for injuries presenting to a district-level urban public hospital in Western Cape.

Background: Trauma is a major public health issue and has an extensive burden on the health system in South Africa. Many trauma scoring systems have been developed to estimate trauma severity and predict mortality. The prediction of mortality between different trauma scoring systems have not been compared at district-level health facilities in South Africa.