Heat-related illnesses include a spectrum of disorders ranging from heat syncope, muscle cramps, and heat exhaustion to heat emergencies such as heatstroke. Severe heatwaves can lead to extremely high environmental temperatures and a spurt of cases of heat-related illnesses and heatstroke. The incidence of such heat-related medical emergencies was much higher in 2024 compared to previous years throughout North and Central India.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFParvovirus B19, commonly associated with erythema infectiosum in children, can also present with various clinical manifestations in adults, including arthropathy, myocarditis, vasculitis, and neurological complications. This case report describes a 39-year-old male who presented with fever, rash, and polyarthralgia, followed by the sudden onset of left-sided facial weakness and slurred speech. Clinical examination revealed lower motor neuron facial nerve palsy and signs consistent with cutaneous small-vessel vasculitis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Aims: Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage. There are limited observational prescription pattern studies of analgesics in perioperative period in tertiary care hospitals for which this study was carried out in orthopedic, general surgery, and plastic surgery departments. The primary aim was to study the prescription pattern of analgesics in the perioperative period with the secondary aim to study the specific use of opioids and pain relief using the Visual Analog Scale (VAS).
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