Drug pooling: A cost-saving strategy to enhance antibiotics availability for pediatric in-patient in Nigeria.

Background: Antibiotic use is common but has a lot of challenges. Implementation of an efficient and cost-effective policy, which can improve the availability and sustainability of pediatric antibiotic use, is required. In this study, we explore the concept of antibiotic drug pooling (DP) as a means to overcome challenges often associated with antibiotic use.

Learning transurethral resection of the prostate: A comparison of the weight of resected specimen to the weight of enucleated specimen in open prostatectomy.

Background: Minimally invasive procedures in the surgical management of benign prostate enlargement (BPE) are of limited use in the resource-poor settings due to nonavailability of the requisite facilities and skills. It has been observed that teaching uroendoscopy inclusive of transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) can be challenging in the resource-poor settings where the traditional master-apprentice (Halstedian) approach has remained the prevalent training technique.

Patients And Methods: We aimed in this retrospective study to assess completeness of resection in TURP by comparing the proportion of prostate tissue resected to the proportion enucleated in open retropubic prostatectomy (ORP).