Epilepsy throughout pregnancy raises concern, but most women who have epilepsy deliver healthy babies though they need special care during pregnancy. Here is an excerpt from an interview by Dr G Pavan Kumar Reddy, Consultant Neurologist at OMNI Hospitals, Kurnool on women with epilepsy and pregnancy and its management. Woman is known to be
Endometriosis is defined as the presence of endometrial-like tissue (glands and stroma) lining inside the uterus grows outside the uterus, which induces a chronic inflammatory reaction, scar tissue, and adhesions that may distort a woman’s pelvic anatomy. Endometriosis is generally found in young women, but the occurrence of endometriosis is not related to ethnic or
Introduction Incidence of novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 or nCoV) among healthcare professionals especially among clinicians involved in anaesthesia and critical care is on rise during aerosol-generating procedures i.e. endotracheal intubation and extubation, bag-mask and jet ventilation, non invasive ventilation, oxygen administration through a high-flow nasal cannula or nebulisation, tracheostomy, open suctioning of airways, procedures
At least once in a week, we tend to hear this word. Let it be a famous celebrity or a poor farmer, this word creates some amount of eagerness and anxiety in most of us. Every year suicide is among the top 20 leading causes of death globally. One suicide happens every 40 seconds worldwide. For
This year’s World AIDS Day is dominated by the global attention towards COVID-19. HIV/AIDS has been a pandemic since the early 1980s and is far from over. 32·7 million people have died from AIDS-related illnesses. The global response to HIV/ AIDS is an example of what can be done and achieved when countries and people
The first successful demonstration of general anaesthesia was done in Massachusetts General Hospital, USA, on 16th October 1846. Hyderabad has contributed significantly for the development of anaesthesia in the world. Dr Rupa Bai Furdoonji was the first lady anaesthetist of the world from the present Sultan Bazaar Hospital, Hyderabad in the years 1889-1917. The great
The Government officials are mandated to ensure that every healthcare institution should have Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems in place. Despite many benefits of the modern-day tool, many clinical users & healthcare providers are apprehensive to implement EMR. Whilst EMRs possess many useful features to help streamline the healthcare processes, some people find the entire system overly complex
As you are all well aware, across the globe and exclusively in our Indian Subcontinent, cardiovascular disorders in the form of Heart attack (AMI) & Heart Failure(HF) are burgeoning by several folds of deaths in human kingdom is related to either Acute MI, that means out of 10 deaths, 6 deaths are related to cardiovascular
