Kirubel Tesfaye Hailu- MD. MSc
- MPH candidate at University College Cork
Kirubel Tesfaye Hailu
- MD. MSc
- MPH candidate at University College Cork
MPH Candidate
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Introduction
I am a general practitioner with over four years of experience in general medicine, telemedicine, and digital health at Healthpath Technologies. I hold an MSc in Translational Medicine from the University of Barcelona and am pursuing a Master’s in Public Health at University College Cork. I am a host of the Hakim Podcast, where we work to empower Ethiopian health professionals. I am passionate about improving health outcomes; I bring expertise in clinical care, research, and public health.
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Background
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a novel, primarily respiratory, coronavirus that became a pandemic when it spread to over 210 countries and led to the death of over six million people. There is no definitive treatment for COVID-19, but vaccines have been developed that can help prevent severe illness and death. Studies have invest...
The present systematic review compares the effects of the laryngeal mask airway (LMA) and the endotracheal tube (ETT) on hemodynamic response and airway difficulties in pediatric anesthesia patients. The terms "children," "postoperative," "pediatrics," "laryngeal mask airway," "endotracheal tube," and "subglottic" were utilized. The scope of the li...
A small realization, a big impact: My Journey Creating the Hakim Podcast
Acute appendicitis (AA) is the most common surgicalemergency in childhood. Accurate and early diagnosis isimportant because any delay in diagnosis may lead toperforation or abscess formation. Today, abdominalultrasonography (US) and computed tomography (CT)scans are the most common imaging methods used fordiagnosis. The aim of this study was to eva...
In this umbrella review, we analyze the effect of gut microbiota on the development and progression of colorectal cancer (CRC), a global health challenge. Following Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) 2020 guidelines, we searched multiple databases for the most relevant systematic reviews and meta-analyses fr...
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Background: Maternal mortality is defined by World health organization as the demise of a woman during maternity in the first 42 days of cessation of pregnancy, regardless of site & time of the pregnancy, from any reason linked to gravidity or its management, but not from unintentional causes. The Sustainable Development Goal puts an ambi...
Background: Oxygen is an essential medical therapy which saves a lot of lives. It is administered as a corrective treatment for conditions resulting in hypoxia (low level of oxygen in the blood). So, the nurse should have more skills and experience to performing this procedure in the aim to maintain the patient's life safe and avoid complications a...
Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) is a rare and debilitating autoimmune disorder that affects the peripheral nervous system. Although the exact etiology of GBS is still unknown, it is thought to be triggered by a preceding gastrointestinal infection in most of the cases. Clinical manifestations include limb weakness, areflexia, and sensory loss that ca...
Among the leading causes of morbidity, disability, and death worldwide are cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). Their risk factors usually include a variety of factors associated with cardiometabolic disorders. Many public health organizations prioritize the prevention of CVDs and encourage people to maintain a healthy lifestyle. It has been shown that...
Back ground: Parental satisfaction is the individual's favorable assessment of a certain aspect of healthcare. The reasons for measuring client happiness include explaining health care services from the client's perspective, measuring the care process, and evaluating care as a function of client contentment. However, there is a dearth of informatio...
Introduction
patient satisfaction is an attitude resulting from a person's general orientation towards the total experience of health care. The study was done with the aim of evaluating post-operative patient satisfaction level with the quality of service provided at the surgical wards; determining how much factors related to physicians, nursing, l...
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic is a respiratory illness that has spread to over 210 countries and killed over 6 million people. There is no specific treatment for COVID-19, but vaccines have been developed that can help prevent severe illness and death. A number of studies have investigated the effect of vaccination on disease severity and outco...
Background: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is defined as structural or functional abnormalities of the kidney that persist for at least three months and are manifested by either kidney damage (most frequently detected as persistent albuminuria or proteinuria) or a decreased glomerular filtration rate (GFR), which is < 60 ml/min per 1.73 m2. (1). Chro...
"The Toolkit to Live a Healthier Life in the 21st Century."
NB: The book was written in Amharic
Anemia is one of the causes of morbidity and mortality in Human malaria. The severity of anemia caused by P. falciparum is often linked to the degree of parasitemia. On the other hand, because of P. vivax's preferential (if not exclusive) invasion of reticulocytes by merozoites the parasitemia rarely exceeds 2%; yet, anemia is one of the deadliest...
