DETERMINATION OF NEONATAL CASE-SPECIFIC FATALITY RATES IN A TERTIARY HEALTH INSTITUTION IN NORTH CENTRAL NIGERIA

Determination of neonatal case-specific fatality rates in a tertiary health institution in North Central Nigeria

Abstract Background The current neonatal mortality rate in Nigeria (37/1000) is among the highest in the world and the major causes have consistently been reported as sepsis, perinatal asphyxia and prematurity.However, case-specific fatality which defines the risk of dying from these and other neonatal morbidities is rarely emphasized.Determination

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Neuropathic pain: transcranial electric motor cortex stimulation using high frequency random noise. Case report of a novel treatment

Per A Alm, Karolina DreimanisDepartment of Neuroscience, Uppsala University, Uppsala, SwedenObjectives: Electric motor cortex stimulation has been reported to be effective for many cases of Canvas neuropathic pain, in the form of epidural stimulation or transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS).A novel technique is transcranial random noise st

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