Clinical Profile, Surgical Approach and Outcome of Complicated Genital Fistulae in Urban Population of a Developing Nation.

Objectives: To study aetiology and management of complicated genital fistulae and to evaluate the outcome of the treatment.

Methods: This observational study enrolled patients with complicated genital fistulae from September 2008 to August 2018 at Sant Parmanand Hospital, Delhi. Patients underwent a reparative surgery or ureteric stenting after a detailed preoperative workup.

Reaching the unreached: Mobile surgical camps in a remote village of Himachal Pradesh.

Aims: The aim was to study the epidemiological factors responsible for pelvic organ prolapse (POP) in poor women of the remote village Shillai, do their POP quantification staging, to study the variety of surgeries conducted in mobile surgical camps in this area.

Materials And Methods: Retrospective analysis of surgeries conducted in five mobile surgical camps in Shillai, Himachal Pradesh from 2009 to 2013, under "Project Prolapse".

Results: A total number of surgeries conducted in five camps from 2009 to 2013 were 490 including 192 gynecological surgeries.

An Evaluation of the Point-of-Care Analyzer, i-Smart 30, for Measurement of Electrolytes.

Analytical functioning of a point-of-care analyzer, i-Smart 30 (i-sens: Seoul, South Korea), for electrolyte quantification was investigated at Sant Parmanand Hospital, a tertiary-care hospital in Delhi, India. Samples that were received for electrolyte assay were assayed, double-blinded for their Na and K level using the arterial blood gas analyzer, the ABL 555 (Radiometer, Copenhagen) and the i-Smart 30 electrolyte analyzer. There was satisfactory correlation between the results obtained with the two analyzers with an encouraging bias, standard deviation and the 95 % limits of agreement between the data generated for Na and K levels.

Apropos: 'Preliminary evaluation on the efficiency of the kit Platelia Dengue NS1 Ag-ELISA to detect dengue virus in dried Aedes aegypti: a potential tool to improve dengue surveillance'.

Only simple, point-of-care, assay formats of the Platellia Dengue NS1 Ag-ELISA would be suitable to identify Dengue virus in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in dengue-endemic areas lacking sophisticated laboratory infrastructure and trained laboratory personnel.

Impact of clinical syndrome-wise categorisation of antimicrobial susceptibility profiles on nosocomial isolates in a tertiary care hospital in Delhi, India.

The objective of this study was to investigate the impact of clinical syndrome-wise categorisation of antimicrobials on the antibiotic susceptibility of nosocomial bacteria at a tertiary care hospital in Delhi, India. The susceptibility of 226 nosocomial bacterial isolates collected during 2008-2011 to meropenem, piperacillin/tazobactam, cefepime, tigecycline, amoxicillin/clavulanic acid (AMC), amikacin, ceftriaxone and ciprofloxacin was monitored and was compared with the antibiotic susceptibility profiles of 72 isolates collected during 2002-2007. During 2008-2011, the isolates included 85% Gram-negative isolates and 15% meticillin-sensitive staphylococci.