Publications by authors named "K M Marimuthu"
The hermit crabs are 'ecosystem engineers' and are a critical link in the oceanic food web. Six species of genus Coenobita are reported in the group of Andaman and Nicobar Islands namely, Coenobita rugosus, C. brevimanus, C.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHigh Dyspnea Score, a Trigger for Specialist Palliative Care Utilization-Results from a Cohort Study on the Predictors of High Opioid and Benzodiazepine Use in COVID-19 Patients.
Lionel Kee Yon See Mahrley Tanagon Provido Sheryl Ng Fionna Chunru Yow Xin Lun Ho Kalisvar Marimuthu
J Palliat Med
November 2024
Article Synopsis
- - Patients with severe COVID-19 often experience rapid worsening of symptoms, particularly dyspnea, necessitating early involvement of specialist palliative care (SPC) for effective symptom management and end-of-life care.
- - A study at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases in Singapore analyzed nonventilated COVID-19 patients between January 2021 and July 2022 to identify risk factors for high use of opioids and benzodiazepines in managing dyspnea.
- - Findings revealed that patients with higher dyspnea scores and lower ISARIC-4C mortality scores were more likely to be high users of these medications, indicating they have increased oxygen needs and higher mortality rates, thus highlighting the need for timely
Background: The spread of Carbapenemase-producing Organisms (CPO) remains a major threat globally. Within clinical settings, the existing method of determining gene load involves traditional culture to determine bacterial load and polymerase-chain-reaction-based Xpert Carba-R Assay to determine carbapenemase gene type. However, there is a need for a fast and accurate method of quantifying CPO colonisation to study the risk of persistent CPO carriage.
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