This qualitative study assessed subjective trauma team performance at Geogetown Public Health Corporation. Poor inter-professional communication and teamwork were seen as major barriers to optimal team performance, identifying a need for improved inter-professional training and collaboration.

The study discusses the importance of awareness of oral manifestations of HIV, as it may reveal important information regarding the immune status of the individual, and, thus help in the identification of patients harbouring the HIV virus, as well as in predicting the decline in their immune status.

We hypothesized that the personality traits, the emotion and stress disturbances induced by the high altitude environment may contribute to the development of acute mountain sickness (AMS). In the current study, young adult subjects who travelled to the plateau from the plain area by air were recruited. The emotional anxiety and personality traits of the participants were investigated by questionnaires, respectively. The correlation of anxiety and personality traits with the development of AMS was analysed. We hypothesized that the personality traits, the emotion and stress disturbances induced by the high altitude environment may contribute to the development of acute mountain sickness (AMS). In the current study, young adult subjects who travelled to the plateau from the plain area by air were recruited. The emotional anxiety and personality traits of the participants were investigated by questionnaires, respectively. The correlation of anxiety and personality traits with the development of AMS was analysed.

Diabetes mellitus is one of the most common chronic childhood disease. Diabetic retinopathy, which is not widespread in children with Type 1 diabetes, is one of the leading causes of blindness is developed countries.

Dietary and physical activity behaviours of Guyanese adolescents’ survey revealed that only one-tenth of youth are consuming daily recommended fruit and vegetable intake. Only half of youth participate in vigorous physical activity and less than half in moderate physical activity.

A review of diving injuries presenting to the hyperbaric chamber at the Barbados Defense Force showed the activities that led to injury, types of injury and outcomes.  

Periodic dental visits have been recommended for preventive treatment. The experience of having fluoride administered by a dentist in the previous year was low in this sample of Mexican schoolchildren. Additionally, we identify and characterize socio-economic inequalities for this intervention.

The objective of this study is to compare incidence-trends of trauma patients. There is a higher incidence of trauma-related injuries, in Curacao compared with countries in the region. This study is a start to set up a new trauma-registry.

Thyrotoxic hypokalaemic periodic paralysis has rarely been described among West Indians. We draw attention to seven cases encountered on the Island of Trinidad over a 25-year period in diverse ethnicities. All the cases were successfully treated. The global literature on thyrotoxic is reviewed from a West Indian perspective with an hypokalaemic periodic paralysis emphasis on the multiethnic presence of this illness in modern-day cosmopolitan populations.

The discrepancy rate between the clinical and autopsy cause of death diagnoses was 36.8%. The high frequency of discrepant diagnoses among older age groups, combined with the diagnostic challenges in the Emergency Department related to time and patient co-morbidities, highlight the need to increase the autopsy rate.

Gentamicin has a propensity to induce nephrotoxicity. This study showed that most of the patients treated with gentamicin experienced some levels of nephrotoxicity and suggests the need for the vigilant monitoring of serum creatinine in such patients in a hospital setting without therapeutic drug monitoring facilities.

A case study of bilateral congenital dislocated knees with a review of non-operative management of congenital dislocated knees.

Maternal fish consumption, as well as, residence can influence placental mercury concentration. The highest placental mercury was found in areas within bauxitic soil.

The mothers’ iliac bone was obtained to reconstruct the graft of the children’s anterior spinal column, thereby inducing new bone formation without affecting the growth and development of the children. The efficacy of debridement was definite.