Articles
Etiology of Community Acquired Pneumonia: Changing with time
Respiratory tract infections are the most frequent of all the infections and account for the large number of workdays lost in the general population. Among them, pneumonia is the commonest disease wit...
Auto-immunedisorder as a cause of Pyrexia of unknown origin- A Case Report
80 years old man, known case of CKD , type 2 DM , hypertension presented with complaints of fever . After initial stabilization, routine investigations were sent. For evaluation of fever cultures incl...
Validation of Disease Injury Severity Score (DISS)- A newer scoring system for prognostication in ED
Emergency Department is a dynamic environment. The treatment and evaluation usually went hand in hand. People used to be very anxious about their patients. To prognosticate about the patient and conti...
Rosuvastatin Induced Rhabdomyolysis
The statins are the most effective and best-tolerated agents for treating dyslipidemia. These drugs are competitive inhibitors of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase, which catal...
Do’s And Don’t in Nephrology
With the invention of current medical tools and machineries the utilization of clinical judgment sometimes takes a back seat in our day to days practice. We as a clinician need to know thoroughly what...
Intractable seizures and role of Thiopentone infusion in post craniotomy for active gliotic lesion
Intractable status epilepticus not responding to conventional pharmacotherapy after residual tumor debridement and cranioplasty. Such refractory status epilepticus has led to the use of anesthetic dru...
A study on clinico-epidemiological profile and the outcome of snake bite victims in a tertiary care centre
Estimated deaths due to snake bites are more than 46,000 annually in India. Ninety-seven percent bites occur in rural areas. Data on snake bite from north-east india is negligible. This study describe...
Hanging
Hanging is one of the leading cause of death in the world accounting for 1 million death annually1. In India hanging is the 2nd most common method of suicide after poisoning2. Hanging is a violent dea...
A Brief Overview For Clinician’s Orientation To ICU And Alternative Planning
The global history of ICU care dates back to the polio epidemic in 1950s, when the specialty of critical care was born. The technique of controlled ventilation was then extended to patients with drug ...