Biological machinery for the production of biosurfactant and their potential applications.

The growing biotechnology industry has focused a lot of attention on biosurfactants because of several advantages over synthetic surfactants. These benefits include worldwide public health, environmental sustainability, and the increasing demand from sectors for environmentally friendly products. Replacement with biosurfactants can reduce upto 8% lifetime CO emissions avoiding about 1.

Correlation and agreement between arterial and venous blood gas analysis in patients with hypotension-an emergency department-based cross-sectional study.

Background: Blood gas analysis is integral to assessing emergency department (ED) patients with acute respiratory or metabolic disease. Arterial blood gas (ABG) is the gold standard for oxygenation, ventilation, and acid-base status but is painful to obtain. Peripheral venous blood gas (VBG) is a valuable alternative as it is less painful and easy to collect.

An Unusual Case of Persistent Hypoglycemia in Scrub Typhus.

Acute fever is a common worldwide issue among patients presenting to the emergency department. Main tropical fevers presenting as acute fever are malaria, dengue fever, typhoid, scrub typhus, and leptospirosis. Scrub typhus is a zoonotic disease caused by , which is endemic in many parts of India.

Investigations on joining of orthopaedic scaffold with rapid tooling.

Poly lactic acid reinforced with hydroxyapatite and chitosan is one of the commonly used thermoplastic composite materials in three-dimensional printing of orthopaedic scaffolds. This article is an extension of work reported on hydroxyapatite- and chitosan-reinforced, poly lactic acid-based biocompatible feedstock filament for three-dimensional printing of functional prototypes on low cost commercial fused deposition modelling setup. In this work, joining of orthopaedic scaffolds has been performed with rapid tooling by using friction stir welding process.

Prolonged diabetic ketoacidosis associated with canagliflozin.

Unlabelled: We report a case of a 63-year-old man who developed diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) associated with canagliflozin, a sodium glucose co-transporter 2 (SGLT-2) inhibitor. He presented acutely unwell with a silent myocardial infarction, diverticulitis and DKA with a minimally raised blood glucose level. Standard therapy for DKA was initiated.

Venous thromboembolism in medical patients during hospitalisation and 3 months after hospitalisation: a prospective observational study.

Objectives: This study was conducted to assess the incidence and risk factors for venous thromboembolism (VTE) in a cohort of medical patients both during the period of hospitalisation and following discharge.

Design: This was a prospective observational study to document the risk profile and incidence of VTE posthospitalisation among all medical patients admitted to our institution during the trial period.

Settings: Primary healthcare.

Tics after traumatic brain injury.

Background: Tics are involuntary non-rhythmic, stereotyped muscle contractions which can be suppressed temporarily. Tics usually start during childhood as part of Tourette syndrome. Adult onset tics are infrequent.