Publications by authors named "Gegal Pruthi"
An unidentifiably severed LMA supreme: An unanticipated critical incident.
J Anaesthesiol Clin Pharmacol
March 2024
: The End-of-life Care Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) program aims to equip nurses with knowledge and skills in palliative and end-of-life care. While this program improves knowledge and attitudes of Indian nurses regarding palliative care and end-of-life care, its long-term impact on their knowledge, attitude, and clinical practice remains unknown. This study aims to assess ELNEC's long-term impact on knowledge, attitude, and practice of Indian nurses.
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- Cancer poses significant public health challenges, particularly regarding accessible palliative care (PC) for patients in North India, where current services are inadequate.
- The C3PaC project aims to create a Comprehensive Coordinated Community-based PC model that aligns with the specific cultural and care needs of cancer patients and their caregivers through a structured three-phase study.
- By deploying and evaluating this model, the project seeks to enhance the quality of life for cancer patients and build the capacity of local healthcare providers, offering scalable solutions for similar health systems in low- and lower-middle-income countries.
Background: Right ventricular (RV) dysfunction is an important predictor of both immediate and long-term outcomes in valve surgeries. Levosimendan has proven beneficial in improving RV function.
Aims: The objective was to study the effect of the addition of levosimendan to the conventional treatment on RV function in patients with RV dysfunction undergoing mitral valve (MV) surgeries.
Background: Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) with multidrug-resistant (MDR) gram negative organisms is a common problem in intensive care unit (ICU). Aerosolized antibiotics enhance the efficacy of systemic antibiotics when added as adjuvants.
Aim: The primary objective of the study was to compare the clinical and bacteriological outcome of patients with VAP who were administered intravenous (IV) antibiotics alone with those patients who were treated with adjunctive nebulized colistin (NC) along with IV antibiotics.
Palliative care (PC) training is conspicuously absent in Indian nursing curricula which is an obstacle to deliver quality end of life care (EOLC). End of life care nursing education consortium (ELNEC) aims to improve nursing staff knowledge and attitudes in PC and EOLC, however its impact on knowledge and attitudes has not been investigated in India. We aimed to assess the impact of ELNEC on the knowledge and attitudes of nurses in India towards PC and care of the dying.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAims And Objectives: The objective of the study was to determine the preconditioning myocardial protective effects of intralipid (IL) in off-pump coronary artery bypass (OPCAB) surgery by measuring highly sensitive troponin T (hsTnT) and cardiac-specific creatine kinase (CK-MB) as markers of myocardial injury.
Materials And Methods: : Thirty patients, scheduled to undergo elective OPCAB surgery, were randomly assigned to the IL group (n = 15) or control (C) group (n = 15); the IL group received an infusion of 20% IL 2 ml/kg, 30 min prior to revascularization and the control group received an equivalent volume of normal saline. Serum levels of hsTnT and CK-MB were measured before surgery and at 6 h, 24 h, 48 h, and 72 h postoperatively.
Introduction: Varying levels of knowledge and attitudes among parturients and physicians toward epidural analgesia result in its low utilization. We aimed to assess the knowledge, attitude, and practice of parturients, obstetricians, and anesthesiologists regarding epidural labor analgesia.
Methodology: We surveyed obstetricians, anesthesiologists, and parturients availing care and later delivered at our hospital from July 1, 2017, to December 31, 2017.