Pattern of Head Injury Cases Admitted at Tertiary Care Centre in Central India: A Cross Sectional Study

2021 ◽  
pp. 134-140
Author(s):  
Avinash H. Waghmode ◽  
Prakash M. Mohite
Keyword(s):  
Head Injury ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Central India ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Care Centre ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Tertiary Care Centre ◽  
Cross Sectional

scholarly journals BREAST FEEDING PRACTICES AND LACTATIONAL COUNSELLING AT A TERTIARY CARE CENTRE OF CENTRAL INDIA.

2020 ◽  
pp. 57-59
Author(s):  
Ankur Singhai ◽  
Swadesh Kumar Verma
Keyword(s):  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Central India ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Care Centre ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Tertiary Care Centre ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Institutional Deliveries ◽  
Breastfeeding Rates

Breast milk is the most ideal and valuable food for the growing infant since it suffices most of the nutritional requirements if given adequately and in appropriate manner. The aim of the study is to assess the knowledge, attitude and practices of mother regarding lactation and impact of counselling to mothers. A questionnaire based cross sectional study was planned and the patients were divided in groups. Statistical analysis was done using IBM SPSS version 22 software.Chi square/Fisher Extract/Student t test and ANOVA test had been used. Most of the ladies had initiated early breastfeeding in both the groups.Hospital staff and family support were the key components influencing the knowledge of breastfeeding.Successful breastfeeding is an important child rearing skill to be learnt and practiced. More IEC activities targeted to promote institutional deliveries will give more opportunity for lactation counselling besides various other advantages like reducing MMR, NMR thus marching towards achieving millennium development goals.We recommend that in every hospital where deliveries are happening, employment of trained lactation counsellors should be made mandatory to improve breastfeeding rates.

scholarly journals CARDIAC MANIFESTATIONS IN DENGUE FEVER: A CROSS SECTIONAL STUDY FROM A TERTIARY CARE CENTRE OF NORTH INDIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (17) ◽  
pp. 1300-1305
Author(s):  
Mansi Singh ◽  
Ajay Kumar ◽  
Sanjay Mehrotra ◽  
Virendra Atam ◽  
Ravi Mishra ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dengue Fever ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
North India ◽  
Care Centre ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Tertiary Care Centre ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Cardiac Manifestations

scholarly journals Injury amongst Medicolegal Cases in Department of Forensic Medicine of a Tertiary Care Centre: A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 59 (244) ◽  
pp. 1277-1282
Author(s):  
Arbin Shakya ◽  
Jenash Acharya ◽  
Sunil Joshi
Keyword(s):  
Confidence Interval ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Physical Assault ◽  
Care Centre ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Tertiary Care Centre ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Life Threatening

Introduction: Victim of injuries presenting to a hospital is a medico-legal issue. So, with medical management, proper documentation of injuries should be done as a legal duty by all physicians attending such cases. The study aims to find the prevalence of injury amongst medicolegal cases inthe Department of Forensic Medicine in a tertiary care centre. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was done amongst 328 medicolegal cases presenting at a tertiary center, from January 2019 to February 2021. Ethical approval was obtained from the Institutional Review Committee (Reference number: 2603202101). Convenience sampling was used to select study samples. After detailed history regarding the incidence, injuries were examined and documented in a performa. The data were entered in Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 18. Point estimate at 95% Confidence Interval was calculated along with frequency and percentagefor binary data. Results: Among 328 cases presenting to hospital for medicolegal issues, 237 (72.25%) (67.40-77.09 at 95% Confidence Interval) had injuries, out of which 170 (71.73%) cases were due to physical assault, 64 (27%) cases due to accident; 2 (1.26%) were undetermined. Majority of victims of injury were adult males, with mean age of 32.41±13.96 years. In most accidental injuries internal organs were also injuries and life-threatening. Conclusions: The prevalence of injuries amongst medicolegal cases was found to be higher in our study in comparison to other studies done in similar settings. Most of the injuries were due to physical assault; however, the majority of road traffic injuries were life-threatening. These road traffic injuries could have been prevented by following a safe system approach to road safety.

scholarly journals Prevalence of Covert Hepatic Encephalopathy in A Tertiary Care Centre

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 (221) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rahul Pathak ◽  
Pukar Ghimire ◽  
Sabin Thapaliya ◽  
Sashi Sharma ◽  
Prem Khadga
Keyword(s):  
Liver Disease ◽  
Hepatic Encephalopathy ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Care Centre ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Tertiary Care Centre ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Covert Hepatic Encephalopathy ◽  
Number Connection Test

Introduction: Among patients with Hepatic Encephalopathy, prevalence of Minimal HE variesbetween 30-50%. Identifying patients with MHE has been shown to improve with medications anddelay development of Overt HE, however only limited clinicians screen for MHE in patients due totime consuming neuropsychological and neurophysiological tests. The Number Connection Test isan easy way to evaluate patients to diagnose MHE. The aim of this study is to find out the prevalenceof covert hepatic encephalopathy. Methods: The descriptive cross-sectional study was done to find out the prevalence of covert hepaticencephalopathy among patients with chronic liver disease. To diagnose Covert HE which includedMHE as well, NCT was used in Devanagari script. Results: The prevalence of covert hepatic encephalopathy is found to be 56 (58.3%) at 90% confidenceinterval (58.23-58.37%). A total of 96 patients (71.9% male) were diagnosed as HE, with mean age of49.6+11.8 years. The cause of CLD in 85 (88.5%) of these patients was alcohol, of which 76 (79.2%)consumed locally brewed alcohol. Of these 96 patients with HE, only 40 (41.7%) had overt HE.Among all these, maximum patients had MHE (37.5%). Conclusions: Our study showed that although the prevalence of minimal HE is quite high amongcirrhotics, they are usually missed in clinical practice due to absence of symptoms. Active screeningwith easy-to-administer tests, like Number Connection tests, can help identify patients with minimalHE and hence treat them early.

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