Enhancing Airway Management: A Comparative Study of Macintosh and TAS Scope in Difficult Intubations.

Background: Intubation is essential in anesthesia for patient safety, requiring accurate techniques for difficult airways. Achieving first-attempt success is crucial. This study evaluates traditional laryngoscopes, such as the Macintosh, versus advanced tools like the TAS Scope.

Community Acquired AKI: A Prospective Observational Study from a Tertiary Level Hospital in Southern India.

Introduction: Pattern of acute kidney injury (AKI) differs vastly from region to region in India. Moreover, prospective data on community-acquired AKI (CAAKI) using the KDIGO criteria for AKI are limited. Our objective was to study the etiology, clinical characteristics, and short-term outcome of CAAKI in adults.

Artery of Percheron Infarction.

Artery of Percheron (AOP) occlusion is a rare cause of ischemic stroke characterized by bilateral paramedian thalamic infarcts, with or without mesencephalic infarction. Clinically it presents with mental state disturbances, hypersomnolence, aphasia/dysarthria, amnesia and ocular movement disorders, including vertical gaze palsy. Here, we report a case of cardioembolic AOP infarction in a 37-year-old woman with rheumatic mitral valvular stenosis.

Near fatal spontaneous intraperitoneal bleeding: A rare manifestation in a congenital factor X deficiency carrier.

Congenital factor X (FX) deficiency is a rare coagulation disorder of autosomal recessive inheritance, characterized by bleeding of variable severity. Bleeding severity generally correlates with the level of FX functional activity and severe bleeding usually occurs in moderate and severe deficiency, when FX coagulant activity is <5%. FX activity above 10% is infrequently associated with severe bleeding.