Key Issues: A Round Table Discussion

Discussion and Round Table Presentation

Chairman Terblanche: Most of the discussion time will be spent reviewing the long-term management of patients after a variceal bleed. In the last 10 minutes we will attempt to place the role of prophylactic therapy in perspective. In my view there are some end-stage patients who should not be subjected to either emergency or definitive treatment. Unfortunately they are frequently difficult to i...

Pediatric dermatology; report of a round table discussion.

Antibiotic therapy; report of a round table discussion.

362 f!ed iutrics VOLUME 20 AUGUST 1957 NUMBER 2 T HE LIBERAL, though not indiscriminate, use of antibiotics in pediatrics has resulted in far more assets than liabilities, although the statement has been made that 90% of antibiotics used in this country today are wasted. Often the pediatrician is able to select the correct and most effective anti#{149} biotic on the basis of clinical examinatio...

Round Table Discussion Antiretroviral therapy is only part of it

There is as yet no cure for AIDS, but therapeutic strategies must play a part in any comprehensive approach to the epidemic — even in resource-poor countries. Farmer et al. (1) provide a starting point, but manymore clinical trials are needed to investigate the efficacy of antiretrovirals (ARVs) in prolonging life and improving the quality of life lived with AIDS in developing countries (2). Th...

Morbilliviruses in aquatic mammals: report on round table discussion.

A workshop was organised to ascertain the current situation with regard to morbillivirus infections in aquatic animals. The great interest generated by the discovery of these new virus infections in 1988 has to some extent abated but much high quality research has continued in this field as the workshop showed. There is some serological evidence that the viruses have continued to circulate in m...