Prognostic Nutritional Index (PNI) and Systemic Immune-Inflammatory Index (SII) as markers of severity among patients having COVID-19 infection.

Background: Prognostic nutritional index (PNI) and systemic immune-inflammatory index (SII) are two novel markers that have emerged as potential candidates as an early indication of the severity of the disease in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients.

Objective: The objective of the study is to assess the utility of the prognostic nutritional index (PNI) and systemic immune-inflammatory index (SII) as markers of severity among patients with COVID-19 infection.

Methods: This is a retrospective study conducted in a tertiary care centre in South India.

Coswara: A respiratory sounds and symptoms dataset for remote screening of SARS-CoV-2 infection.

This paper presents the Coswara dataset, a dataset containing diverse set of respiratory sounds and rich meta-data, recorded between April-2020 and February-2022 from 2635 individuals (1819 SARS-CoV-2 negative, 674 positive, and 142 recovered subjects). The respiratory sounds contained nine sound categories associated with variants of breathing, cough and speech. The rich metadata contained demographic information associated with age, gender and geographic location, as well as the health information relating to the symptoms, pre-existing respiratory ailments, comorbidity and SARS-CoV-2 test status.

Atrial Flutter and Left Hemidiaphragmatic Paralysis in the Setting of Lyme Disease.

Lyme disease, caused by a tick-borne spirochete, is the most common vector-borne disease in the United States. Clinical manifestations can include erythema migrans, carditis, facial nerve palsy, or arthritis. A rare complication of Lyme disease is hemidiaphragmatic paralysis.

Heart rhythm irregularities during laparoscopy: Description of a novel technique to manage severe intra-operative bradycardia - A case report.

Introduction & Importance: Minimally invasive abdominal surgeries need insufflation of a gas (usually carbon dioxide) into the peritoneal cavity for creating a pneumoperitoneum. Laparoscopic techniques have its own set of inherent complications. In order to maintain the operative space, constant gas flow is required to assist various surgeries.