Welcome to GASOC's March Journal Club! This month's focus will be on anaesthetics with 2 great speakers lined up; Alexandra Torborg based in South Africa and Mack Kalenga based in Zambia.
Our first speaker is Alexandra Torborg currently works as an anaesthesiologist in private practice in Durban, South Africa. Alexandra is an honorary lecturer at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and a member of the African Perioperative Research Group (APORG). Her interests are in paediatric anaesthesia, regional anaesthesia and clinical research. Outside of work Alexandra enjoys open water swimming, freediving, and birdwatching.
Alexandra will be discussing the paper 'Outcomes after surgery for children in Africa. A fourteen-day prospective observational cohort study (ASOS-Paeds)'.
This paper is currently awaiting publication in The Lancet but pre-print version is available here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract\_id=4556560
The evenings second speaker is Mack Kalenga a final-year trainee in the Anaesthesia and Critical Care program at the University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka Zambia and currently serves as Chief Resident. Recognized for his commitment to quality improvement projects, Mack recently received the Best Trainee Project award at the Research and Audit Federation of Anaesthetic Trainees (RAFT) Winter Scientific Conference in 2023 for a project he co-developed. Mack has a background of excellence in academics and leadership with several accolades including the Overall Best Graduating Student in the Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery Program award in 2019 and the Society of Anaesthetists Emerging Leaders Award in 2023.
Mack will be discussing a randomised trial titled 'Effect of an Early Resuscitation Protocol on In-hospital Mortality Among Adults with Sepsis and Hypotension.
Available here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5710318/
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