Publications by authors named "Anitha Kommalur"
Background Admission hypothermia is still an underappreciated major challenge for new-born survival in low-resource settings. The WHO recommends skin-to-skin contact as the simplest and safest way for maintaining the body temperature even during transportation. Quality improvement initiatives for hospitalised new-borns have shown benefits like a reduction in neonatal morbidity and mortality.
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- A 5-month-old infant developed serious symptoms including fever, altered consciousness, and convulsions during a COVID-19 infection, and was also Dengue positive, complicating her diagnosis.
- The child's MRI indicated acute demyelinating encephalomyelitis (ADEM), leading to treatment with high-dose steroids, which gradually improved her condition over three weeks.
- Despite initial recovery, follow-up revealed delayed motor skills, epileptic spasms, and signs of secondary West syndrome, raising concerns about acute leukoencephalopathy as a complication related to COVID-19 in infants.
Background: Antibiotics play a critical role in neonatal sepsis but excessive use is associated with adverse outcomes and the current prescribing rates of antibiotics are unacceptably high.
Aim: To reduce antibiotic over-use in preterm neonates by implementing an antibiotic stewardship programme using a quality improvement (QI) initiative.
Methods: This study was conducted at a neonatal intensive care unit in a resource-limited setting.
Aim: Kangaroo mother care (KMC) can be challenging in multiple births and more so in resource-limited settings. This study aims at increasing the mean duration of KMC with early initiation in twin preterm neonates born at a tertiary care hospital using a quality improvement (QI) initiative.
Methods: Barriers for poor KMC practice in twin preterm neonates born at the tertiary care hospital were analysed and baseline data were collected over a period of 4 months using a predesigned proforma.
Purpose: Newborn screening is the need of the hour in a developing country like India as there is paucity of data from studies conducted in government hospitals with large sample size. The purpose of the study is to estimate incidence rate and recall rates for five conditions screened in the neonatal period namely congenital hypothyroidism, congenital adrenal hyperplasia, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency, galactosemia and phenyl ketonuria (PKU).
Methods: The study was conducted at VaniVilas Hospital attached to Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute.