Heather Bougard
Somerset Hospital(ZA)
Publications by Year
Research Areas
Hernia repair and management, Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes, Pelvic and Acetabular Injuries, Appendicitis Diagnosis and Management, COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
Most-Cited Works
- → Changes in surgical practice in 85 South African hospitals during COVID-19 hard lockdown(2020)37 cited
- → Perioperative optimization in complex abdominal wall hernias: Delphi consensus statement(2021)34 cited
- → Primary ventral and incisional hernias: comprehensive review(2024)25 cited
- → Estimating the surgical backlog from the COVID-19 lockdown in South Africa: A retrospective analysis of six government hospitals(2021)23 cited
- HIG (SA) Guidelines for the Management of Ventral Hernias(2016)
- → The developing world of pre‐operative optimisation: a systematic review of Cochrane reviews(2018)8 cited
- → Building a national hernia registry in South Africa: initial ventral hernia repair results from a diverse healthcare sector(2020)6 cited
- → Mapping the therapeutic landscape in emergency incisional hernia: a scoping review(2025)3 cited
- Clinical and Patient-Reported Outcomes after Absorbable Strap Fixation for Ventral Hernia Repair.(2017)
- → Long-term mortality after lower extremity amputation: A retrospective study at a second-level government hospital in Cape Town, South Africa(2021)2 cited