Early prognostication of COVID-19 to guide hospitalisation versus outpatient monitoring using a point-of-test risk prediction score.

Introduction: Risk factors of adverse outcomes in COVID-19 are defined but stratification of mortality using non-laboratory measured scores, particularly at the time of prehospital SARS-CoV-2 testing, is lacking.

Methods: Multivariate regression with bootstrapping was used to identify independent mortality predictors in patients admitted to an acute hospital with a confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19. Predictions were externally validated in a large random sample of the ISARIC cohort (N=14 231) and a smaller cohort from Aintree (N=290).

Saadat Hasan Manto, Partition, and Mental Illness through the Lens of Toba Tek Singh.

"Toba Tek Singh," which describes the exchange of mental asylum inmates between India and Pakistan in the wake of partition, was perhaps Saadat Hasan Manto's most well-known short story. Manto's work was coloured by his experience of mental illness, including alcohol addiction and possible depressive disorder. This essay attempts to use "Toba Tek Singh" as a lens through which to shine an integrative light on the role of mental illness in Manto's work and life, by discussing his personal experiences, themes of mental illness in the story, and the implications of his writing in the historical context of post-partition South Asia.

Enhanced ventricular tachycardia substrate resolution with a novel omnipolar high-density mapping catheter: the omnimapping study.

Background: Defining diastolic slow-conduction channels within the borderzone (BZ) of scar-dependent re-entrant ventricular tachycardia (VT) is key for effective mapping and ablation strategies. Understanding wavefront propagation is driving advances in high-density (HD) mapping. The newly developed Advisor™ HD Grid Mapping Catheter (HD GRID) has equidistant spacing of 16, 1 mm electrodes in a 4 × 4 3 mm interspaced arrangement allowing bipolar recordings along and uniquely across the splines (orthogonal vector) to facilitate substrate mapping in a WAVE configuration (WAVE).

Novel route of infection in experimental model of hydatid disease.

Viable protoscolices of Echinococcus granulosus injected into Swiss-albino mice by two different routes, viz. intraperitoneal and subcutaneous and in two different concentrations of 2000 and 1000 scolices, to observe the development of cysts have shown that subcutaneous route of infecting a mouse model is superior because of its low infecting dose and longer survival period of mouse. This finding should be helpful in experiments to observe the effect of drugs for the treatment of hydatidosis, in vivo, without the need of killing the mouse.

Emergence of low level vancomycin resistance in MRSA.

One hundred and twenty methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains were checked for minimum inhibitory concenteration (MIC) of vancomycin. The results showed that 98 strains (81.7 %) had MIC < 4microg/mL, 18 strains (15 %) had MIC 8 microg/mL, and 4 (03.