While infection and bleeding are clearly the most prevalent complications in mechanical circulatory support, neurological complications can perhaps be the most devastating. These complications are a leading cause of morbidity, mortality, increased hospital stay, and cost. These complications impact not only the patient, but also the entire health-care delivery team, and the patient’s friends an...

BACKGROUND In the majority of health centers in Ethiopia, the severity of falciparum malaria has been determined by parasitemia alone. However, it has been suggested that the use of peripheral infected RBC counts as an indicator of disease severity by itself is insufficient. Therefore, this study was performed to assess the severity of falciparum malaria infection in three Ethiopian localities ...