Editorial |
Dr KK Aggarwal President CMAAO, HCFI
7th February 2021
Multispeciality
With input from Dr Monica Vasudev
1346: Anaphylaxis
1. 21 cases of anaphylaxis out of 1.8 M doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine – approximately 1 in 87,000 injections). Although this is rare, but it is higher than the risk with other vaccines which is 1.3 per million.
2. Majority of anaphylaxis cases have been reported within 30 minutes of receiving the jab.
3. Of 21 cases, 5 were allergic to some food; three of these also had a history of drug allergy. Twelve had had allergic reactions to medications or vaccines previously, and one had environmental allergies.
4. Moderna vaccine - some cases of delayed facial swelling have been reported without serious consequences.
5. Vaccine allergy is a rare occurrence. The cause behind such rare allergic reactions is often an excipient...
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Dr KK Aggarwal, President CMAAO, HCFI and Past National President IMA
7th February 2021
Multispeciality
Cases:
1M April 2, 2M April 15, 3M April 27, 4M May 8, 5M May 20, 6M May 30, 7M June 7, 8M June 15, 9M June 22, 10M June 29th, 11M July 4, 12M July 8, 13M July 13, 14M July 17, 15M July 23, 16M July 25, 17M July 29, 18M August 1, 19M August 6, 20M August 10, 21M August 16, 22M August 19, 23M August 21, 24M August 27, 25M August 30, 26M September 3, 27M September 7, 28M September 10, 29M September 14, 30M September 18, 31M September 21, 32M September 23, 33M September 28, 34M October 1, 35M October 4, 36M October 8, 37M October 11, 38M October 14, 39M October 17, 40M October 19, 41M October 22, 42M October 24, 43M October 26, 44M October 28,...
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7th February 2021
Gastroenterology
Hepatology
Multispeciality
Women are at risk of acute and chronic liver diseases and the diseases affecting pregnant women with adverse effects on maternal, fetal, or neonatal outcomes are of utmost importance. Among these diseases, acute viral hepatitis is a crucial cause of liver disease in pregnant women, and hepatitis E...
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7th February 2021
Allergy & Immunology
Multispeciality
Ambroxol (2-amino-3,5-dibromo-N-(trans-4-hydroxycyclohexyl)benzylamine), an over-the-counter mucoactive agent has been successfully used to treat both acute and chronic respiratory diseases since 1978. The current review is aimed to establish clinical evidences on its use in children with acute and chronic respiratory diseases....
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News From All Specialities
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7th February 2021
Business and Medicine
Pathology & Lab Medicine
The World Health Organization (WHO) has updated the critical concentrations for culture-based phenotypic drug susceptibility testing (DST) to anti-tuberculosis drugs.
The agency has reduced the critical concentrations for rifampicin; however, that for isoniazid continues to be at the current level...
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7th February 2021
Business and Medicine
Pathology & Lab Medicine
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted approval to lisocabtagene maraleucel, for the treatment of adult patients with some forms of large B-cell lymphoma who either do not respond to, or have relapsed, following at least two systemic treatments with other agents.
This drug is a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy...
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7th February 2021
Pathology & Lab Medicine
Pulmonary Medicine
Health authorities in New Zealand are probing a new community COVID-19 infection, which is the fourth in a two weeks’ span in people who have completed the compulsory isolation at a quarantine facility for those who have returned from overseas.
The new case has been detected in an individual who was self-isolating at home in Hamilton,...
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7th February 2021
Pathology & Lab Medicine
Pharmacists
The third phase of inoculations against COVID-19, which includes citizens over 50 years of age and those who are younger than 50 but have serious co-morbidities, will start probably around mid-March, stated health minister Dr Harsh Vardhan in the Lok Sabha.
The government had recently suggested that the individuals above 50 years...
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7th February 2021
Pharmacists
Pathology & Lab Medicine
Findings presented at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) COVID-19 and Cancer meeting have suggested that drugs targeting CD20, such as rituximab and obinutuzumab, were associated with severe COVID-19 disease in patients with lymphoma.
Researchers noted that among more than 100 lymphoma patients...
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Medicolegal Corner
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7th February 2021
In Martin F. D’Souza vs Mohd. Ishfaq, 3541 of 2002, dated 17.02.2009, the Supreme Court has defined some situations of negligence as follows:
1. Failure to strictly observe current practices, infrastructure, paramedical and other staff, hygiene and sterility...
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eMedi Humor
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7th February 2021
A high–school student came home one night rather depressed.
"What’s the matter, Son?" asked his mother.
"Aw, gee," said the boy, "It’s my grades. They’re all wet." ...
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eMedi Quiz
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7th February 2021
1. Transitional
2. Stratified squamous
3. Stratified cuboidal...
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Lifestyle Updates
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7th February 2021
• Restrain on portion size: Order for one if you are two people; if you are alone, set aside some of the food on your plate to bring home.
• Resist refined carbohydrates.
• Fill your plate with colorful choices with vegetables, fruits and small amounts of lean protein. Avoid creamy and ranch dressings...
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7th February 2021
True silence is the silence between thoughts and represents the true self, consciousness or the soul. It is a web of energized information ready to take all, provided there is a right intent. Meditation is the process of achieving this silence.
Observing silence is another way of getting benefits of meditation...
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7th February 2021
A man once saw a cocoon of a butterfly in his garden. One day he noticed a small opening in the cocoon. He watched the butterfly for hours altogether as it struggled to come out through the hole.
Eventually, it appeared that it had stopped making any progress. The man thought of helping the butterfly. He brought a pair of scissors and cut the remaining part of the cocoon...
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Medical Voice
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7th February 2021
Can I take painkillers before or after a Covid-19 vaccine? It's best to avoid them, unless you routinely take them for a medical condition. Although the evidence is limited, some painkillers might interfere with the very thing the vaccine is trying to do: generate a strong immune system response...
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Survey
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Question 1 : Which of these courses would you pay for - You can select multiple options
How to modernize clinic
Growing your digitize you clinic and practice...
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Question 1 : How confident are you that you could recognize and respond to a potential coronavirus case?
Very confident
Moderately confident...
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Medbytes
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From Other Newsletter
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Recovery Digest
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The goal of a study published in Kyobu Geka was to evaluate safety and efficacy of preoperative oral rehydration therapy compared to infusion therapy in thoracic surgery. In this study, 84 patients scheduled for thoracic surgery were assigned to either an oral rehydration group or an infusion group...
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Nephrology
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In the present study, published in Cardiovascular Drugs and Therapy, cilnidipine was given to 14 hospitalized patients with essential hypertension, and 24-hour ambulatory BP monitoring was performed. Once-daily administration of cilnidipine...
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Pediatrics
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Skin care is important especially in infancy as skin barrier matures during the first year of life.
The goal of a study published in Journal of the German Society of Dermatology was to examine the effects of baby swimming and baby lotion...
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Surgery
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Biofilm has often been cited as a key pathological factor in non-healing wounds. It therefore seems crucial to manage the biofilm in order to expedite wound healing and achieve the desired outcome.
A study by Scully and colleagues compared the clinical and in vitro performance of a next-generation antibiofilm silver dressing (NGAD) enriched with an antimicrobial dressing technology...
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