SAJCC Vol. 38 No. 2

Risk factors associated with unplanned ICU admissions following paediatric surgery


Traumatic brain injury: Association between the Glasgow Coma Scale score and intensive care unit mortality


Ventilator-associated pneumonia in PICU – how are we doing?


Iatrogenic blood loss in critical care: A prospective observational study conducted at Universitas Academic Hospital in the Free State Province, South Africa

SAJCC Vol. 38 No. 3

2022 CCSSA Congress & SASPEN Abstracts


A comparison of the warming capabilities of two Baragwanath rewarming appliances with the Hotline fluid warming device


Scope and mortality of adult medical ICU patients in an Eastern Cape tertiary hospital

SAJCC Vol. 39 No. 1

Malawian critical care nurses’ views on the implementation of an educational intervention to enhance sustained use of an ETT cuff pressure management guideline


Carbon dioxide levels of ventilated adult critically ill post-operative patients on arrival at the ICU


Prevalence and independent predictors of in- hospital stroke among patients who developed acute alteration of consciousness in the medical ICU


Healthcare professionals’ perception of knowledge and implementation of Patient Safety Incident reporting and learning guidelines in specialised care units, KwaZulu-Natal

SAJCC Vol. 39 No. 2

Clinical features and outcomes of patients with myasthenia gravis admitted to an intensive care unit: A 20-year retrospective study


An analysis of referrals to a level 3 intensive care unit in a resource-limited setting in SA


Moral distress among critical care nurses when excecuting Do-not-resuscitate orders in a public critical care unit in Gauteng


The use of anticoagulants in patients hospitalised with COVID‐19

SAJCC Vol. 39 No. 3

Abstracts of the Critical Care Congress 2023 in association with SASPEN


Deep medicine ...Navigating the intersection of technology, cognition and ethics in the digital age of medicine


Groote Schuur Hospital neurosurgical intensive care unit: A 2-year review of admission characteristics


Core competencies in critical care for general medical practitioners in South Africa: A Delphi study


Patient perceptions of ICU physiotherapy: ‘Your body needs to go somewhere to be recharged ... ’


Outcomes of traumatic brain injury patients in an adult intensive care unit of a South African regional hospital, without on-site neurosurgical service

SAJCC Vol. 40 No. 1

Nutrition support practices in the intensive care unit of a tertiary hospital in Ghana 


A review of the role of testosterone in the care of the critically ill patient


Critical care nurses’ experiences of communication-vulnerable patients in the ICU


A quasi-experimental study in the paediatric emergency department of a referral hospital in Nigeria


CO2 gap changes compared with cardiac output changes in response to intravenous volume expansion and/or vasopressor therapy in septic shock


The effect of the SARS-CoV2 pandemic and lockdown on non-Covid ICU admissions

SAJCC Vol. 40 No. 2

Transfusion-associated necrotising enterocolitis in VLBW babies


Factors influencing knowledge translation into critical care practice


Critical care nurses’ orientations to caring for patients and their families


Bed occupancy and nosocomial infections in the ICU


Physical function measures in ICU survivors, where to now? A scoping review


Primary cutaneous melioidosis - A rare case needing intensive care unit admission

SAJCC Vol. 40 No. 3







  • CCSSA 2024 Congress Abstracts




  • A validation of machine learning models for the identification of critically ill children




  • Knowledge, attitudes and practices of administration of IV antimicrobial medicines among ICU nurses




  • Implementation strategies to overcome barriers to early mobilisation practices in Zimbabwean and South African public sector ICUs




  • Use of IV immunoglobulin for the treatment of severe COVID-19




  • Ventilator-associated pneumonia rates in a level I trauma ICU compared with international benchmarks




  • A profile of children with traumatic brain injury admitted to the PICU