Student led outreach workshops to promote basic life support.

Objective: To provide basic life support training to the staff, students and faculty of higher educational institutions in urban areas through pre-trained medical students, and to record the qualitative impact of community training on student facilitators.

Methods: The mixed-method quasi-experimental study was conducted at the Foundation University, Islamabad, Pakistan, in collaboration with the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan from 2015 to 2018. Trained volunteer medical students were divided into teams to visit and provide hands-on basic life support training to 15 educational institutions in Rawalpindi and Islamabad with each batch having 45-50 participants.

Risk Factors Associated With Contrast-Induced Nephropathy after Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention.

Background Contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN) after primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is associated with increased mortality and morbidity. The aim of this study is to determine the frequency of CIN after primary PCI and its association with risk factors in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) at a tertiary care cardiac center in Pakistan. Methodology In this observational study, we included 282 patients who presented with STEMI and underwent primary PCI at the National Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, Karachi, Pakistan, from October 2017 to April 2018.

The Frequency of Left Atrial Thrombus on Transthoracic Echocardiogram in Patients with Mitral Stenosis.

Background Patients with mitral stenosis (MS) are more prone to develop left atrial (LA) thrombus. This cross-sectional study was conducted to determine the frequency of LA thrombus on transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) in patients with MS. Methods In this study, we included patients diagnosed with MS undergoing TTE at the echocardiography department of the National Institute of Cardiovascular Disease (NICVD), Karachi, Pakistan.