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Clinical Guidelines for Diagnosis and Treatment of Common Conditions in Kenya
(WHO; 2002; 344 pages)
FOREWORD
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ABBREVIATIONS
1. ACUTE INJURIES AND TRAUMA & SELECTED EMERGENCIES
1.1. Anaphylaxis & Cardiac Arrest
1.2. Abdominal Trauma
1.3. Bites & Rabies
1.4. Burns
1.5. Disaster Plan
1.6. Head Injury
1.7. Multiple Injury Patient
1.8. Pneumothorax & Haemothorax
1.9. Shock
1.10. Tracheostomy
2. AIDS & SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS
2.1. HIV/AIDS in Kenya
2.2. HIV Transmission & Prevention
2.3. Stages of Infection & Diagnosis of AIDS
2.4. HIV Testing & Patient Education
2.5. Gonorrhoea & Urethral Discharge
2.6. Genital Discharge in the Female
2.7. Dysuria in the Female
2.8. Lower Abdominal Pain in the Female
2.9. Genital Ulcer Disease
2.10. Buboes or Swollen Inguinal Glands
2.11. Genital Warts
3. CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES
3.1. Congenital Heart Disease
3.2. Deep Vein Thrombosis
3.3. Heart Failure
3.4. Hypertension
3.5. Pulmonary Oedema
3.6. Acute Myocardial Infarction
3.7. Acute Rheumatic Fever (ARF)
3.8. Rheumatic Valvular Heart Disease
4. CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
4.1. Cerebral Palsy
4.2. Seizure Disorders
5. DENTAL AND ORAL CONDITIONS
5.1. Abscess, Periapical
5.2. Acute Necrotizing Ulcerative Gingivitis (ANUG)
5.3. Alveolitis (Dry Socket)
5.4. Cellulitis (Oral)
5.5. Gingivitis
5.6. Neoplasms, Salivary Gland & Hereditary/Developmental Disorders
5.7. Pericoronitis
5.8. Periodontitis
5.9. Pulpitis
5.10. Temporomandibular Joint Disorders
5.11. Trauma
6. EAR, NOSE AND THROAT CONDITIONS
6.1. Acute Otitis Media
6.2. Otitis Externa
6.3. Chronic Suppurative Otitis Media (CSOM)
6.4. Epistaxis
6.5. Foreign Bodies in the Ears
6.6. Foreign Bodies in the Nose
6.7. Mastoiditis
6.8. Wax in Ear
6.9. Foreign Body in the Oesophagus
6.10. Laryngotracheal Trauma
6.11. Allergic Rhinitis
6.12. Parotid Masses
6.13. ENT Manifestations of HIV/AIDS
6.14. Hearing Impairment
6.15. Tracheostomy
7. ENDOCRINE SYSTEM CONDITIONS
7.1. Diabetes Mellitus
7.2. Thyroid Diseases
8. EYE CONDITIONS
8.1. Common Eye Conditions
8.2. Eye Injuries
8.3. Ocular Manifestation of Common Systematic Diseases
8.4. Orbital Cellulitis
9. FAMILY PLANNING
9.1. Hormonal Contraceptives
9.2. Intrauterine Contraceptive Devices (IUCDS)
9.3. Barrier Methods
9.4. Surgical Contraception
9.5. Periodic Abstinence (Natural Family Planning)
10. GASTROINTESTINAL CONDITIONS
10.1. Amoebiasis
10.2. Diarrhoeal Diseases
10.3. Gastritis
10.4. Gastro-Oesophageal Reflux Disease (GORD)
10.6. Upper Git Bleeding
10.7. Lower Git Bleeding
10.8. Worms
11. IMMUNIZATION
12. INFECTIONS (SELECTED) & RELATED CONDITIONS
12.1. Bacterial Infections
12.2. Malaria
12.3. MEASLES
12.4. MENINGITIS
12.5. PARALYSIS (ACUTE FLACCID)
12.6. SCHISTOSOMIASIS
12.7. TETANUS
12.8. TUBERCULOSIS
12.9. SALMONELLA INFECTIONS
13. MENTAL DISORDERS
13.1. ACUTE CONFUSION (Acute Psychosis)
13.2. ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL (Delirium tremens)
13.3. SUBSTANCE ABUSE RELATED DISORDERS
13.4. ANXIETY
13.5. CHILDHOOD PSYCHIATRIC DISORDER
13.6. CONVERSION SYNDROMES
13.7. DEPRESSION
13.8. BIPOLAR MOOD DISORDER (MANIC EPISODE)
13.9. SCHIZOPHRENIA
13.10. SLEEP DISORDERS
13.11. SUICIDE ATTEMPTS
13.12. VALUE OF ELECTRO-CONVULSIVE THERAPY (ECT)
14. MUSCULOSKELETAL CONDITIONS
14.1. ARTHRALGIA, NON-SPECIFIC
14.2. GOUT
14.3. OSTEOARTHRITIS
14.4. RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS
15. NEONATAL CARE & CONDITIONS
15.1. NEONATAL ASPHYXIA & RESUSCITATION
15.2. CARE OF THE NORMAL NEWBORN
15.3. BIRTH INJURIES
15.4. BORN BEFORE ARRIVAL (BBA)
15.5. CONGENITAL ANOMALIES
15.6. INFANTS OF DIABETIC MOTHERS
15.7. NEONATAL JAUNDICE
15.8. PRETERM INFANT
15.9. APNOEIC ATTACKS
15.10. RESPIRATORY DISTRESS
16. NEOPLASMS
16.1. NEOPLASMS IN CHILDHOOD
16.2. NEOPLASMS IN ADULTS
16.3. HEAD AND NECK CANCERS
17. NUTRITIONAL AND HAEMATOLOGIC CONDITIONS
HAEMATOLOGY
17.1. ANAEMIA
17.2. BLOOD TRANSFUSION
NUTRITION
17.3. FAILURE TO THRIVE
17.4. GROWTH MONITORING AND NUTRITION
17.5. CHILD ABUSE & NEGLECT
17.6. MALNUTRITION
18. OBSTETRIC AND GYNAECOLOGICAL CONDITIONS
18.1. GYNAECOLOGY
18.1.1 Abortion (Miscarriage)
18.1.2 Ectopic Pregnancy
18.1.3 Infertility
18.1.4 Pelvic Masses
18.1.5 Menstrual Disturbances
18.1.6 Neoplasms
18.1.7 Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID)
18.1.8 Abscesses and Fistulae
18.1.9 Sexual Assault
18.2 OBSTETRICS
ANTE-NATAL CARE & COMPLICATIONS
18.2.1 ANTE-NATAL CARE
18.2.2 HIGH RISK PREGNANCY CONCEPT
18.2.3 ANAEMIA IN PREGNANCY
18.2.4 ANTEPARTUM HAEMORRHAGE (APH)
18.2.5 CARDIAC DISEASE IN PREGNANCY
18.2.6 DIABETES IN PREGNANCY
18.2.7 DRUGS IN PREGNANCY
18.2.8 MALARIA IN PREGNANCY
18.2.9 MULTIPLE PREGNANCY
18.2.10 PRE-ECLAMPSIA & ECLAMPSIA
18.2.11. ECLAMPSIA
18.2.12 RHESUS (Rh) INCOMPATIBILITY
18.2.13 URINARY TRACT INFECTION (UTI) IN PREGNANCY
INTRAPARTUM CARE & COMPLICATIONS
18.2.14. NORMAL LABOUR & DELIVERY
18.2.15. COMPLICATED LABOUR & DELIVERY
POSTPARTUM CARE & COMPLICATIONS
18.2.16. POST NATAL CARE
18.2.17. COMPLICATIONS OF PUERPERIUM
18.2.18. POSTPARTUM HAEMORRHAGE (PPH)
18.2.19. PUERPERAL INFECTIONS
18.2.20. BREAST CONDITIONS
18.2.21. DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS (DVT)
18.2.22. PUERPERAL PSYCHOSIS
19. ORTHOPAEDICS
ORTHOPAEDICS & FRACTURES
19.1. FRACTURES
JOINT AND TENDON INJURIES
19.2. JOINT INJURIES
19.3. OSTEOMYELITIS
19.4. CHRONIC OSTEOMYELITIS
19.5. OSTEOSARCOMA
19.6. SEPTIC ARTHRITIS
20. POISONING
21. RESPIRATORY DISEASES
ACUTE UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS
21.1. COMMON COLD (ACUTE RHINITIS, CORYZA)
21.2. PHARYNGOTONSILLITIS, TONSILLITIS
21.3. DISEASES OF THE ADENOIDS
21.4. SINUSITIS
21.5. ACUTE EPIGLOTTITIS
21.6. CROUP (ACUTE LARYNGOTRACHEOBRONCHITIS)
LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS
21.7. APPROACH TO COUGH OR DIFFICULT BREATHING IN CHILDREN
21.8. PNEUMONIA - Infant age less than 2 months
21.9. PNEUMONIA - Child age 2 months to 5 years
21.10. PNEUMONIA - Adults
21.11. ACUTEBRONCHITIS-Bronchitis (tracheobronchitis)
21.12. WHEEZING AND ASTHMA - Children Under 5 yrs
21.13. BRONCHIAL ASTHMA (Adults)
21.14. CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE
22. SIGNS & SYMPTOMS
22.1. COMA
22.2. FEVER
22.3. FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN
22.4. HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY
22.5. JAUNDICE
22.6. OBSTRUCTIVE JAUNDICE
22.7. LYMPHADENOPATHY
23. SKIN DISEASES
ECZEMA
23.1. ATOPIC ECZEMA
23.2. CONTACT DERMATITIS
BACTERIAL INFECTIONS
23.3. IMPETIGO CONTAGIOSUM
23.4. BULLOUS IMPETIGO
23.5. STAPHYLOCOCCAL SCALDED SKIN SYNDROME (SSSS) - RITTER'S DISEASE
23.6. SUPERFICIAL FUNGAL INFECTIONS
PARASITIC INFESTATIONS
23.7. SCABIES
23.8. PELLAGRA (NIACIN DEFICIENCY)
23.9. SEBORRHOEIC DERMATITIS
DERMATOLOGICAL EMERGENCIES
23.10. ERYTHEMA MULTI FORME SYNDROME
23.11. EXFOLIATIVE DERMATITIS
23.12. JIGGERS/TUNGA PENETRANS
24. SURGERY
24.1. CARE OF THE SURGICAL PATIENT
24.2. ABDOMINAL CONDITIONS
24.3. ABSCESSES
24.4. ANORECTAL CONDITIONS
24.5. BREAST DISEASES
24.6. CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM CONDITIONS
24.7. CHEST
24.8. FLUID & ELETROLYTE BALANCE
24.9. GENITOURINARY SYSTEM
24.10. SKIN ULCERS & TUMOURS OF THE SKIN
25. Genito-urinary Diseases: Urinary Tract & Renal Conditions
25.1. Urinary Tract Infections
25.2. Renal Disease Signs & Symptoms
25.3. Acute Glomerulonephritis
25.4. Acute Renal Failure
25.5. Chronic Renal Failure
25.6. Hypokalaemia
25.7. Nephrotic Syndrome
25.8. Urinary Fistula
Annexes
A. Reference Ranges of Common Laboratory Tests
B. Paediatric Drug Dosages
C. Kenya Essential Drugs List (October, 2002)
HAEMATOLOGY
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