Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic on Waitlisted Preoperative General Surgical Patients in a Tertiary Care Hospital in India - Problems and Probable Solutions: an Observational Study.

Introduction: Among patients affected by Covid-19, a large subset included those who were on preoperative general surgical waiting list for elective operations. There are very few studies on the various factors that impacted these patients during the pandemic in India. The current study aimed to analyse the factors which hampered the surgical management of such patients and to suggest implementable solutions which can mitigate those factors in future pandemics.

Protocolized Foot Exercises Help in Improvement of Diabetic Foot Ulcers and Quality of Life When Added to Standard Therapy-A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Context: Diabetic foot disease is the major cause of nontraumatic limb amputations worldwide causing a high socioeconomic and psychological toll and a huge burden to the healthcare system. Currently, standard treatment of diabetic foot ulcer is through multidisciplinary therapy. Foot exercises have been shown to improve healing in diabetic ulcers although evidence is limited and applicability is non-uniform.

Rarest of the Rare - Malignant Solitary Fibrous Tumour of the Breast: Case Report and Literature Review.

Malignant solitary fibrous tumor of the breast is one of the rarest types of breast malignancy. To the best of our knowledge, only six cases have been reported so far. Here we have presented such a case from India, where a 52-year-old lady presented with a 10 cm x 8 cm breast lump.

Hospital mortality among COVID-19 patients - Experience of a multi-disciplinary tertiary care teaching hospital of Chhattisgarh in Central India.

Introduction: The mortality from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection and the severity of it vary among populations. There is a dearth of research on epidemiology and clinical outcomes in central Indian populations with COVID-19. Our aim was to provide an analysis of all hospitalized mortality among patients with COVID-19 infection in a tertiary care hospital of Chhattisgarh in central India.

Umbilical nodule - A not always innocuous abdominal finding.

Sister Mary Joseph's nodule is an umbilical nodule found in patients with metastatic abdominal cancers. It is quite rare finding and needs a high index of suspicion for diagnosis. Detection of Sister Mary Joseph's nodule should warrant widespread search for abdominal carcinoma and it universally carries quite poor clinical prognosis.

Pancreatic Lymphangioma: An Unusual Cause of Abdominal Lump.

Lymphangiomas are uncommon benign malformations that can occur anywhere in the body. These are hamartomatous malformations with lymphatic differentiation, which uncommonly involve the abdomen and rarely the pancreas. The size of the cysts in pancreatic lymphangioma directly correlates with the clinical manifestations; however, most of them are non-specific.

Pyoderma Gangrenosum: An Ulcer With Unorthodox Treatment.

Pyoderma gangrenosum (PG) is a rare, reactive, non-infectious inflammatory dermatosis. It typically presents with extensive cutaneous ulcerations. A 20-year-old lady presented with a painful, progressive, non-healing ulcer with purulent discharge on the right upper thigh.

Information technology-based joint preoperative assessment, risk stratification and its impact on patient management, perioperative outcome, and cost.

Background:  Despite negative recommendations, routine preoperative testing practice is nearly universal. Our aim is to bring the healthcare providers on one platform by using information-technology based preanaesthetic assessment and evaluate the routine preoperative testing's impact on patient outcome and cost.

Methods: A prospective, non-randomised study was conducted in a teaching hospital during January 2019-August 2020.

Local complications of intravenous access - an often underestimated entity.

Context: Obtaining intravenous (IV) access is one of the very frequent invasive procedures performed in hospital care settings. This has several complications some of which are serious in nature. However, the incidence and seriousness of these complications as well as the burden of this complication on patient management are often underestimated.

Transinguinal preperitoneal technique of inguinal hernioplasty - a better alternative to lichtenstein procedure.

Introduction: The Lichtenstein technique is currently one of the popular methods in practice as it provides very good results consistently. However many patients suffer from wound indurations' and chronic wound pain which are often underreported. The transinguinal preperitoneal technique (TPT) avoids these complications by placing the mesh in preperitoneal plane by open approach.