The story of the Aotearoa New Zealand health system is one of early optimism, some success and then disappointment at the failure of the public sector to respond to the needs of the community.
Exposure to surgical smoke has been linked to acute adverse health effects in healthcare workers including headaches, nausea, cough, and irritation of the eye, nose and throat.
Within New Zealand, there are three tiers of trauma provision, tertiary trauma centres, regional trauma hospitals and smaller rural hospitals, which would often be bypassed in the incidence of major trauma.
Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in adults (MIS-A), is a rare post-infectious complication of COVID-19. Clinicians should be alert for possible MIS-A in the weeks after a surge in COVID-19 cases.
Stroke clot retrieval (SCR) in patients with large vessel occlusion (LVO) is associated with significantly reduced disability at 90 days compared with intravenous thrombolysis alone.
At the service level, admission to stroke units, routine assessment for dysphagia, interdisciplinary team work, higher ratios of nursing staff to patients and stroke unit accreditation are all associated with improved outcomes.
I desire to report a case which was primarily papilliferous adenoma of the appendix, but which later showed myxomatous degeneration and cyst formation.