Collaborative robot acting as scrub nurse for cataract surgery (CRASCS).

Worldwide, healthcare systems are struggling to tackle a nursing shortage. As per the data released by the American Hospital Association, the healthcare workforce could face a loss of around 5 lakh nurses by the end of the year. Consequently, it could result in those deficiencies, which will be 1.

Assessment of Self-Reported Emotional and Behavioral Difficulties Among Pre-University College Students in Bangalore, India.

Background: The understanding of youth mental health needs and development of service delivery models is a national public health challenge.

Objectives: The rates and predictors of emotional and behavioral problems among 1087 youth were assessed in a pre-university college in Bangalore, India. Variations in rates of disturbance, identified by using different cut-off points, were also examined.

Clinico-epidemiological profile of tobacco users attending a tobacco cessation clinic in a teaching hospital in Bangalore city.

Background: Tobacco-attributable mortality in India is estimated to be at least 10%. Tobacco cessation is more likely to avert millions of deaths before 2050 than prevention of tobacco use initiation.

Objective: To describe the clinico-epidemiological profile of attendees of a tobacco cessation clinic in a teaching hospital in Bangalore city.

Epilepsy surgery in a pediatric population: a retrospective study of 129 children from a tertiary care hospital in a developing country along with assessment of quality of life.

Purpose: To assess the outcome of a pediatric population operated for drug-resistant epilepsy from a large tertiary care center in India.

Methods: Retrospectively: quality of life (QOL); prospectively: preoperative assessment included interictal EEG, MRI (as per epilepsy protocol), video-EEG. Ictal SPECT (with subtraction) and PET were performed when required.