Publications by authors named "Y B Amusa"
Background: Access to quality and timely care prevents unnecessary deaths and morbidity from potentially curable surgical diseases. This study describes the magnitude of unmet surgical needs in a Nigerian community and describes the experiences garnered during a surgical outreach organized by a tertiary institution in an underserved community.
Methods: This is a descriptive study highlighting details of a surgical outreach to a community in south-Western part of Nigeria.
Article Synopsis
- Advances in surgical techniques have increased the safety of thyroidectomy, but voice changes remain a significant concern, which this study addressed by evaluating patients undergoing surgery for non-malignant goiters in Nigeria.* -
- The study involved preoperative assessments of voice and laryngeal status, with postoperative evaluations at 1 week, 1 month, and 3 months, revealing that 18.5% of patients experienced early voice changes after the operation.* -
- While most voice changes were temporary—returning to baseline in five of the ten cases by three months—abnormal preoperative findings were linked to a higher risk of these postoperative voice changes.*
Purpose: Sleep medicine is a rapidly growing field of Medicine globally. However, studies are lacking on the knowledge of Nigerian medical and dental students on sleep and the different types of sleep disorders. Thus, we assessed the knowledge, interest and awareness of Nigerian medical and dental students about sleep medicine.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPopulation-based studies of contribute to understanding the epidemiology of infection. We enrolled surgical inpatients admitted to an African tertiary-care hospital in order to prospectively analyze the nosocomial impact of . Data collection included an active sampling of the anterior nares and infectious foci within 48 h after admission and subsequently when clinically indicated.
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