Early treatment will prevent feto-maternal complications in thyroid disorders during pregnancy: A prospective study.

Context: Associations between adverse maternal complications and fetal outcomes are known entity in thyroid disorders during pregnancy. Thus, prompt identification of thyroid disorders and timely initiation of treatment is essential. Universal screening and early treatment of pregnant women for thyroid disorder should be considered especially in a resource-limited country like India with a high prevalence of undiagnosed thyroid disorders and adverse feto-maternal outcomes.

Changing Trends of Obstetric Hysterectomy Over Last 2 Decades: A Retrospective Analysis from a Single Center Tertiary Care Rural Teaching Hospital of Western India.

Objective: The primary objective of our study to analyze the trend of obstetric hysterectomy (OH) over last 2 decade in rural tertiary care referral center of western India.

Design: Retrospective observational and comparative study from single rural tertiary care referral center of western India.

Method: A retrospective data collected of patients who underwent OH from Jan 2001 to Dec 2021.

Comparison of Effectiveness of Home-Based Verses Supervised Pelvic Floor Muscle Exercise in Women with Urinary Incontinence.

Background: Urinary incontinence (UI) is a significant health problem with serious physical, psychological, and social consequences. Pelvic floor muscle exercise (PFME) is proven efficacious in the prevention and management of UI. A lack of trained physiotherapist in rural areas mars the uptake of physiotherapy and therefore innovative mechanisms are required.

Cognitive style assessment among medical students: A step towards achieving meta-cognitive integration in medical education.

Background: Knowledge of cognition and its regulation are important meta-cognitive activities, which are crucial for enhancement of learning. Their explicit teaching is meaningful and necessary yet seldom undertaken systematically in medical education programmes.

Methods: We aimed to identify the cognitive styles using the Alert Scale of Cognitive Style among our undergraduate students.

Challenges encountered in community-based physiotherapy interventions for urinary incontinence among women in rural areas of Anand District of Gujarat, India.

Background: It is necessary to understand the way women think about their health. There is a "culture of silence" among women regarding urinary incontinence (UI). Physiotherapy is proven effective mode of therapy in case of UI.

Effect of Yoga-nidra on Adolescents Well-being: A Mixed Method Study.

Context: Adolescent well-being is a priority area for health-care interventions in the 21 century. Yoga-nidra is an ancient Indian method of enabling individuals to attain a positive state of deep physical, mental, and emotional relaxation. The practice produces a state of simultaneous relaxation and detachment resulting in inner awareness and release of stress on all planes of one's being.

Code Krishna: an innovative practice respecting death, dying and beyond.

In moments of grief, human beings seek solace and attempt to discover the meaning of life and death by reaching out to wider and deeper dimensions of existence that stem from their religious, cultural and spiritual beliefs. Conventional patient care fails to consider this vital aspect of our lives. Many hold the view that life and its experiences do not end with death; the body is but a sheath which holds the soul that inhabits it.

Critically ill obstetric patients requiring mechanical ventilation in rural western India: A retrospective analysis.

Background: There is a dearth of studies on the clinical profile and therapeutic aspects of critically ill obstetric patients from rural areas, especially those requiring tertiary care support and ventilator therapy.

Methods: We retrospectively analysed the aetiological, clinical, interventional and outcome-related factors of obstetric patients requiring mechanical ventilation in western India. We analysed factors that influence seeking of antenatal care, pregnancy and its complications, severity assessment score, indications and initiation of mechanical ventilation, multiorgan failure and their correlation with maternal mortality.