Publications by authors named "Nedungalaparambil Nisanth Menon"
India has one of the most unequal healthcare systems globally, lagging behind its economic development. Improved primary care and primary health care play an integral role in overcoming health disparities. Family medicine is a subset of primary care-delivered by family physicians, characterized by comprehensive, continuous, coordinated, collaborative, personal, family and community-oriented services-and may be able to fill these gaps.
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- * A study interviewed early family physicians in India to understand their roles as innovators and advocates in the implementation process using established diffusion theories.
- * Key findings showed that early adopters led training programs and formed organizations to promote family medicine, but faced challenges like lack of government backing and societal awareness.
Objective: Nursing professionals are expected to have updated knowledge of clinical blood transfusion guidelines while catering to cancer patients requiring bedside transfusions.
Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted to evaluate the knowledge and current practice of nurses at a tertiary-level cancer hospital in rural Kerala using a pretested self-administered structured 20-item questionnaire, and results were analyzed.
Results: Among 246 nurses who participated, a response rate of 93.
Background: Physicians from resource-constrained rural areas being lone lifesavers pose a unique challenge in resuscitating emergencies like cardiac arrest. Rural Emergency Care Training for Physicians (RECTIFY) was devised as a short course training to equip them to deal with occasional emergencies using minimal gadgets. This study was conceived to assess the effectiveness of the RECTIFY-Cardiac Arrest Resuscitation Short course (CARS) module in improving current knowledge and practice of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) among interested rural physicians of Asia.
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- - The study investigated the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare professionals in India, focusing on the prevalence and predictors of stress, depression, and anxiety symptoms.
- - Conducted in April 2020 through an online survey, the study included 350 healthcare professionals, revealing that 3.7% experienced high-level stress, while 11.4% showed depressive symptoms needing treatment, and 17.7% displayed anxiety symptoms requiring further evaluation.
- - The findings indicated that female healthcare professionals faced significantly higher odds of experiencing stress, depression, and anxiety, particularly those living in temporary accommodations, highlighting the urgent need for mental health support in this demographic.
COVID-19 is one of the deadliest viral infections to have hit the planet. There is urgent need to bridge the gaps in handling this pandemic by methodically synthesising available literature through a unique holistic perspective. A systematic review of articles regarding emergency and primary care during COVID-19 pandemic was carried out.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Resource limitation, staff deficiency, and variability in patient inflow contribute to emergency department (ED) overcrowding, associated with delayed care, poor care, and poor patient outcomes. This study seeks to describe and analyze patient inflow variability and staffing trends on Sundays versus other days in a tertiary academic ED from South India.
Methods: Patient inflow and staffing data for 2 years were collected from hospital records, cross-checked, and statistically analyzed using Epi Info 7.
Background: Healthcare professionals are expected to have knowledge of current basic and advanced cardiac life support (BLS/ACLS) guidelines to revive unresponsive patients.
Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted to evaluate the current practices and knowledge of BLS/ACLS principles among healthcare professionals of North-Kerala using pretested self-administered structured questionnaire. Answers were validated in accordance with American Heart Association's BLS/ACLS teaching manual and the results were analysed.