21Jun– Dr.Vaishali C. Shelgaonkar Asso. Professor Anaesthesiology IGGMC, Nagpur Introduction Globally, as of 2010, an estimated 285 million people had diabetes, with type 2 making up about 90% of the cases. In 2013, according to International Diabetes Federation, an estimated 381 million people had diabetes. The increase incidence in developing countries follows the trend of […]
25Jan– Dr. Subhada Deshmukh Professor, Dept. of Medicine, NKPSIMS Introduction The World Health Organization defines anemia as hemoglobin
25Jan– Dr. Ramesh Mundle Professor, Dept. of Medicine, NKPSIMS Anemia is the most common of all blood disorders. Anemia results from reduced red blood cell production in the bone marrow. Nutritional anemia is defined as anaemia which occurs when there is a deficiency of one or more of the essential nutrients required for the synthesis […]
25JanDr. Avinash Pophali Haematologist & Medical Oncologist & BMT Consultant, Director, Central India Institute of Haematology & Oncology (CIIHO) Hemolysis is the destruction or removal of red blood cells from the circulation before their normal life span of 120 days. While hemolysis can be a lifelong asymptomatic condition, it most often presents as anemia when […]
16Oct– Dr. Radha Munje Prof and Head, Chest & TB, IGGMC, Nagpur We have heard and often talked about pink puffers and blue bloaters which are the characteristic presentation of patients of COPD . Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) represents an important and increasing burden throughout the world. Classically, COPD has been considered a respiratory […]
16OctDr. Girish Deshpande MBBS, MD (Medicine), Consultant Physician and Intensivist Reactive Airways Disease: Reactive Airways Disease is a general term for conditions involving wheezing and allergic reactions.(1) Reactive Airways Dysfunction Syndrome (RADS): RADS is a term proposed by Stuart M Brooks and colleagues in 1985(2) to describe an asthma like syndrome developing after a single […]
16OctDR. Nilofer Salim Mujawar Professor, Dept. of Paediatrics, NKPSIMS Frequently one finds the diagnosis written on discharge cards as “reactive airways” and “reactive airways disease”. Perhaps what the physician wanted to convey is a diagnosis of asthma. The terms though highly nonspecific are increasingly used more so by pediatricians. Diagnosing asthma in early childhood is […]
16OctDr. Anjali Savargaonkar Associate Professor, Anesthesiology, Govt. Medical College & Superspeciality Nagpur Anesthetizing patients with “reactive airway” remains a challenge to the anesthesiologist. There is always a possibility of catastrophic bronchospasm and other respiratory complications associated with anesthesia in patients with reactive airways. Anesthesiologist has to be selective regarding the choice of anesthesia technique and […]
16OctDr.Pravin Gadkari Consultant Pathologist MD (Pathology) Fever is the most common presenting symptom of a varied group of diseases. Hence it is important to develop a rational, minimally invasive, economical approach for investigations of fever resulting in most appropriate management of the patients. Broadly the approach will differ depending on the age, history, localizing signs […]
16OctDr.Anjali Bhure Prof and HOD Dept.of Anaesthesiology, NKPSIMS INTRODUCTION: Alteration in body temperature is common during anaesthesia. In human beings, body temperature is maintained within a very narrow range by way of afferent sensing, central processing and efferent thermoregulatory responses(fig 1)1. All these components of the thermoregulatory system are impaired by anaesthesia. The role […]
