Background & Objective: One third of the neonatal deaths worldwide are attributed to perinatal asphyxia. We aimed to determine the prevalence and determinants of cardiac dysfunction, through echocardiographic evaluation, in term neonates with perinatal asphyxia.
Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted at a tertiary care setting over a period of six months from 1 January 2021 to 30 June 2021.
Nurses make up most of the global healthcare system, thus justifying their significance in the respective industry. The healthcare profession is amongst the very few careers that are attributed to a very high level of stress and imbalanced work-life equilibrium. Over past decades, the said nature of work has been observed to coerce countless nurses to leave their respective organizations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Objective: Pakistan has high neonatal mortality rate and antibiotic utilization data in hospitalized term neonates from Pakistan is lacking. The study aimed to determine the pattern of hospital antibiotic use in term neonates using World Health Organization (WHO) Access, Watch, and Reserve classification (AWaRe).
Methods: This cross-sectional chart review study was conducted at the neonatal unit of Pediatric Medicine Department of University Hospital over a period of one year from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020.
Graphite has recently gained scientific and industrial attention due to its high electrical conductivity. In the current endeavor, a new way to fabricate novel and multifunctional nanocomposites using functional graphite (FG) as filler is presented. The fabrication of multilayered conducting composites of PANi/PMMA/PPG-b-PEG-b-PPG was carried out via in situ polymerization, using polyaniline (PANi), poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) and block copolymer as matrices in the presence of FGfiller.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Acute viral hepatitis (AVH) in children is a serious and major public health concern globally and in developing countries such as Pakistan. We conducted this study to determine the clinical and epidemiological spectrum of AVH due to hepatitis A virus (HAV) and hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection in children.
Methodology: This cross-sectional study was conducted at the Pediatric Medicine Department of a tertiary care hospital from February 20, 2020, to February 20, 2022.
A 78-year-old woman status post hysterectomy and radiation therapy 3 years earlier for endometrial carcinoma presented with cough, dyspnea, and weight loss. Computed tomography revealed left upper lobe atelectasis due to an obstructing endobronchial mass, enlarged mediastinal lymph nodes, a moderate left pleural effusion, and several subcentimeter nodules in the right lung. Flexible bronchoscopy confirmed a tumor mass obstructing the left upper lobe bronchus.
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