FAmily-Led RehabiliTaTion aftEr Stroke in INDia: the ATTEND pilot study.

Background: The aim of this pilot study was to determine the feasibility of a multicenter, randomized, controlled trial in India of a family-led, trained caregiver-delivered, home-based rehabilitation intervention vs. routine care.

Methods: A prospective, randomized (within seven-days of hospital admission), blinded outcome assessor, controlled trial of structured home-based rehabilitation delivered by trained and protocol-guided family caregivers (intervention) vs.

Mirror therapy in unilateral neglect after stroke (MUST trial): a randomized controlled trial.

Objective: We explored the effectiveness of mirror therapy (MT) in the treatment of unilateral neglect in stroke patients.

Methods: This is an open, blinded endpoint, randomized controlled trial carried out from January 2011 to August 2013. We included stroke patients with thalamic and parietal lobe lesions with unilateral neglect 48 hours after stroke.

Shoulder taping reduces injury and pain in stroke patients: randomized controlled trial.

Objectives: We aimed to study the effectiveness of shoulder taping and conventional treatment vs sham taping and conventional treatment in prevention of shoulder injuries in patients with acute stroke.

Methods: This study was a multicenter, interventional, prospective, randomized, outcome-blinded trial (PROBE design). All first-ever stroke patients were included within 48 hours of stroke onset (August 2009-October 2011).

Complementary and alternative medicine treatments among stroke patients in India.

Background: Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is commonly used by persons with stroke throughout the world, particularly in Asia.

Objective: The objectives of this study were to determine the frequency of CAM use and the factors that predict the use of CAM in stroke patients.

Methods: This study was carried out in the stroke units of Christian Medical College, Ludhiana, and Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, India, from June 2010 to December 2010.

Preemptive antiemesis in patients undergoing modified radical mastectomy: oral granisetron versus oral ondansetron in a double-blind, randomized, controlled study.

Study Objective: To assess the efficacy of oral granisetron versus oral ondansetron for preemptive antiemesis in women undergoing modified radical mastectomy.

Design: Randomized, double-blind, controlled study.

Setting: Metropolitan hospital.

The analgesic effects of preemptive gabapentin in patients undergoing surgery for brachial plexus injury--a preliminary study.

There are reports indicating that gabapentin may have place in the treatment of postoperative pain. No study has evaluated the effects of gabapentin on acute, postoperative pain in patients undergoing surgery for brachial plexus injuries. In this preliminary study, we evaluated gabapentin as preemptive analgesic for intraoperative period and during the acute postoperative period at rest and during movement.

Hemodynamic and bispectral index changes following skull pin attachment with and without local anesthetic infiltration of the scalp.

We studied the hemodynamic and bispectral index (BIS) changes in 44 patients undergoing cervical diskectomy with attachment of a Gardner-Wells tong (with two sharp conical pins) to the skull to facilitate intraoperative bone graft insertion. Patients were induced with fentanyl, thiopentone, and rocuronium and maintained with 66% nitrous oxide and 0.5% isoflurane, Before insertion of the pins, patients were randomly allocated to have either saline or lidocaine infiltration of the scalp at the proposed pin sites.

Is phenytoin administration safe in a hypothermic child?

A male neonate with a Chiari malformation and a leaking myelomeningocoele underwent ventriculoperitoneal shunt insertion followed by repair of myelomeningocoele. During anaesthesia and surgery, he inadvertently became moderately hypothermic. Intravenous phenytoin was administered during the later part of the surgery for seizure prophylaxis.