dc.contributor.author | Gelfand, Michael | |
dc.coverage.spatial | Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia.) | en_GB |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-11-25T18:02:56Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-11-25T18:02:56Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1973-07 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Gelfand, Michael (1973) Coma The Common Causes in an African Medical Ward, CAJM vol. 19, no.7. Harare (formerly Salisbury), Avondale: CAJM | en_GB |
dc.identifier.issn | 0008-9176 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/5189 | |
dc.description | A CAJM article on the prevalence of coma's African hospital patience, | en_GB |
dc.description.abstract | Coma is a common reason for a patient to be admitted to hospital. It has many causes and the physician attending a comatose patient must determine its etiology at an early stage so that the appropriate therapy can be instituted. The causes of coma are well known but, in a country like Rhodesia, where the pattern of disease differs from that of Europe, it seems that it would be a worthwhile procedure to find out the more usual causes of coma in African patients admitted to hospital. Most of the patients in this ward are adult but a few children (over the age of seven) are seen. The cases were studied consecutively in a prospective manner. Thus in this study, from 1963 to 1965 inclusive, only factors related to the cause of the coma were considered and not the outcome of the disease. | en_GB |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Central African Journal of Medicine (CAJM), University of Zimbabwe (formerly University College of Rhodesia.) | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ | en_GB |
dc.subject | Health | en_GB |
dc.title | Coma The Common Causes In An African Medical Ward | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.rights.holder | University of Zimbabwe | en_GB |