Publications by authors named "Ananth John"
Indian J Crit Care Med
December 2021
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates how the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown affected patients with deliberate self-harm (DSH) seeking help in an emergency department in South India from January to August 2020.
- It found that the overall number of DSH cases decreased significantly during the lockdown period compared to the same timeframe in 2018, with notable changes in the methods of self-harm, such as reduced use of plant poisons and increased corrosive ingestion.
- Despite the decline in cases, the study indicated no major differences in the hospital outcomes for patients presenting with DSH between the two periods.
