Articles
Evaluation of ICU mortality in a tertiary care hospital in northeast India
Intensive care unit is a highly dynamic area of a hospital with the sickest patient being managed very intensively. But beacause of super severity of illness the mortality rate is also significantly h...
Saving Paraquat Poisoning A Casereport
Paraquat(chemically a dipyridyl compound) isa herbicide.It acts by producing local and systemic toxicity.Plasma and urine paraquat levels are strongly associated with mortality in acute poisoning. The...
Epidemiology and outcome of poisoned patient : A Retrospective analysis in a tertiary care hospital in northeast India
A common medical emergency is poisoning, irrespective of whether it is intentional or accidental. Poisoning is a significant global public health problem. According to WHO data, in 2012 an estimated 1...
Validation of Culture & sensitivity reports
The clinical microbiology laboratory plays a critical role in antimicrobial stewardship by providing patient specific culture and susceptibility data to optimize individual antimicrobial management an...
Prone Ventilation In Severe Ards
Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), a clinical entity with a high mortality rate, requires aggressive ventilatory management. With a picture compounded with features of septic shock and multio...
Snake Bite Protocol – An Indian Perspective
Snakebite cases are not unusual to ED visit across the globe. Snakebite is an acute life-threatening time limiting medical emergency. It is a preventable public health hazard often faced by rural popu...
Extra Pontine Myelinolysis: a case report
The first case of extra pontine myelinolysis was described in 1987 and before that the concept of central pontine myelinolysis was being widely used. When extra pontine myelinolysis and central pontin...
An Unusual Case Of Leptospirosis: A Case Report
Leptospirosis is a widespread and prevalent zoonotic disease. It occurs in both temperate and tropical regions; the incidence in the tropics is approximately 10 times higher than in temperate regions....
A Case of Adult-Onset Bartter’s Syndrome
Bartter’s Syndrome is characterized by renal potassium wasting with hypokalemia, metabolic alkalosis, increased renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system, normal blood pressure, resistance to the pressor e...