Safety and complications of labour epidural analgesia in obese parturients: worrying is not worth the weight!

The physiological transformations accompanying pregnancy, compounded by the implications of obesity, pose intricate challenges for anaesthesiologists attending to obese parturients. Obesity makes it harder to successfully provide epidural analgesia to a parturient. This narrative review explains the most recent data on the safety and complications of providing labour epidural analgesia in obese expectant mothers.

An unusual presentation of mycetoma around knee joint as a subcutaneous mass - A case report.

Introduction: Mycetoma is a form of chronic granulomatous disease which involves subcutaneous tissues and causes bone destruction in advanced stages. The characteristic features are sinus formation, granules formation, and mass in subcutaneous region.

Case Report: A 19-year-old male presented to our out-patient clinic with complaint of a painless swelling around the medial aspect of the right knee joint for 8 months with no sinus or discharge of granules.

Ganglionic Cyst of Periosteal Origin Mimicking as Pes Anserine Bursitis - A Rare Entity and Literature Review.

Introduction: Periosteal ganglion is a form of cystic swelling commonly seen around long bones of lower extremities.

Case Report: A 55-year-old male presented to outdoor clinic with gradually increasing swelling around anteromedial aspect of the right knee joint with intermittent pain on prolonged standing and walking for 8 months. Magnetic resonance imaging was suggestive of ganglionic cyst which was confirmed later by histopathological examination.

"The show must go on": Aftermath of Covid-19 on anesthesiology residency programs.

COVID-19 has caused tectonic changes in the personal and professional lives of anesthesiologists and, among several aspects, anesthesiology residency and sub-specialty training has also undergone an unforeseen overhaul. We read the articles published on the impact of COVID-19 on training of anesthesiologists and set out to extract and narrate all the significant observations. At the outset, we begin by explaining how this pandemic posed a threat to the safety of the residents and mitigating measures like PPE and barriers that have now become 'the new normal'.