scholarly journals Strategies to provide care to Non-COVID Patients in the COVID Era: An Experience from a Tertiary Care Institute in Northern India

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 404-406
Author(s):  
Surekha Kishore ◽  
Aroop Mohanty ◽  
Vivek Hada ◽  
Subodh Kumar ◽  
Rama Shankar Rath

With the COVID-19 pandemic the health system is facing dual burden of cases, one being the COVID-19 or Severe Acute Respiratory Illness (SARI) cases and the second being the other Non-COVID cases. The Non-COVID cases due to the burden of the SARI cases became almost neglected by the Health System increasing the sufferings of the Non-COVID cases. In the current COVID times All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Gorakhpur continued to provide the health care to the Non-COVID cases. The current manuscript provides the detailed strategy and results of the various strategies used to provide care to such Non-COVID patients with minimum risk to the healthcare staff.

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 72-75
Author(s):  
Amit Gupta ◽  
Lovenish Bains ◽  
Deepshikha Yadav ◽  
Prashant Durgapal ◽  
Manish Kumar Agrawal

Background: Tuberculous mastitis (TM) is a rare extra pulmonary presentation of tuberculosis. It may be problematic to distinguish from carcinoma breast, a condition with which it may coexist.  Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) / biopsy are indispensable for diagnosis and tuberculosis culture when positive may be very valuable to guide antimicrobial therapy.Aims and Objectives:  To disseminate the message to the concerned expertise that it can present a diagnostic problem on radiological and microbiological investigations, and thus a high index of suspicion is needed.Materials and Methods: 19 cases of tubercular mastitis between  January 2012 to March 2014 were identified and included in the present study. Cytology and biopsy alongwith AFB stain was done for confirmation.Results: Age ranged between 23- 55 years (median 33 years). Axillary nodes were palpable in 9 (47.3%) patients. Acid Fast Bacilli stain which was positive in only 3 patients. All the 19 patients were started on antitubercular treatment.Conclusion: This study highlights the importance of early diagnosis and aggressive medical and if required surgical management to cure this disease.Asian Journal of Medical Sciences Vol.8(3) 2017 72-75


2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vishal Malhotra ◽  
RajinderSingh Balgir ◽  
Abi Watts ◽  
Sharndeep Kaur ◽  
ParmeetSingh Nirwan ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (5) ◽  
pp. 1284
Author(s):  
Jagat Ram ◽  
ParulChawla Gupta ◽  
Jaspreet Sukhija ◽  
Surbhi Khurana ◽  
Savleen Kaur ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (7) ◽  
pp. 1928
Author(s):  
Jagat Ram ◽  
ParulChawla Gupta ◽  
Ramandeep Singh ◽  
Surbhi Khurana ◽  
RanjanKumar Behera ◽  
...  

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