Browsing by Author "Joubert, J. J."
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- ItemBlood oxygen saturation levels during conscious sedation with midazolam. A report of 16 cases(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 1986) Roelofse, J. A.; Van der Bijl, P.; Joubert, J. J.; Breytenbach, H. S.In a double-blind randomized study on 16 healthy individuals, two groups of subjects (8 in each group) received either midazolam (Dormicum; Roche) 0,1 mg/kg or placebo intravenously for conscious sedation during oral surgical procedures. Oxygen saturation of the blood was measured at different stages. Ten minutes after administration of the drug, the percentage oxygen saturation was significantly lower (P<0.05) in the midazolam group than in the placebo group.
- ItemThe usefulness of cerebrospinal fluid tests for neurosyphilis(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 1994) Russouw, H. G.; Roberts, M. C.; Emsley, R. A.; Joubert, J. J.To determine the usefulness of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) tests for syphilis at a large academic hospital, clinical and laboratory data on 644 patients in whom such testing was requested over a 12-month period were analysed. In 198 cases (31%) the Treponema pallidum haemagglutination (TPHA) screening test could not be performed because of insufficient fluid. Thirty-eight of the remaining patients were diagnosed as having active neurosyphilis. Examination of 22 files of patients who had a positive TPHA and fluorescent treponemal antibody absorption (FTA-Abs) test together with a negative CSF Venereal Disease Research Laboratory (VDRL) test revealed that other CSF measures indicating disease activity (CSF protein, cells or IgG index) were not utilised optimally. In 10 (45%) of these patients neurosyphilis was not diagnosed despite either abnormal or incomplete CSF biochemical analysis, indicating that if the CSF VDRL is used as the sole marker for disease activity, some cases of neurosyphilis are likely to be missed.