Publications by authors named "Sreyashi Sen"
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- - This study aimed to understand how opioid users and their peer educators in Kolkata view treatment and overdose risks related to opioid use.
- - Researchers conducted in-depth interviews with 20 opioid users and six peer educators, identifying key themes around knowledge, treatment effectiveness, and awareness of overdose resources like naloxone.
- - The results highlight a critical need for better training and support for opioid users in recognizing overdoses and administering life-saving interventions, which can inform future policymaking to combat the opioid crisis.
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- PGx factors play a crucial role in how patients react to antipsychotic medications, prompting a systematic review to compare PGx-assisted treatment with standard care in schizophrenia.
- Five randomized controlled trials (RCTs) were analyzed, all showing high risk of bias, with mixed findings on safety, efficacy, and medication adherence.
- The meta-analysis highlighted significant differences in side effects and symptom severity between the two treatment methods, but overall, the evidence is limited and inconsistent, indicating a need for further research.
Haemophilia is an inherited bleeding disorder with variable deficiency of Factor VIII in the plasma and is characterised by bleeding into joints, muscles and tissues either spontaneously or in response to trivial trauma. Perioperative care requires multidisciplinary involvement. Perioperative management involves the risk of excessive bleeding from surgical site as well as spontaneous bleeding into the brain in response to surgical stress in patients with previous history of intracerebral haemorrhage.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRheumatic heart disease is the most common cardiac disease complicating pregnancy in developing countries. Heart disease accounts for 15% pregnancy-related mortality. In the presence of maternal heart disease, the circulatory changes of pregnancy may result in exacerbation of the hemodynamic perturbations due to complex cardiac valvular lesions leading to decompensation or death of mother or fetus.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Adequate sexual expression is an essential part of many human relationships, and may enhance quality of life and provide a sense of physical, psychological, and social well-being. Epidemiological and clinical studies show that depression is associated with impairments of sexual function and satisfaction, even in untreated patients. Most antidepressant drugs have adverse effects on sexual function, but accurate identification of the incidence of treatment-emergent dysfunction has proved troublesome.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFContext: Preoperative anxiety is synonymous with pediatric surgery. Anxiolysis is of crucial importance and poses a significant challenge to the pediatric anesthesiologist. Orally administered midazolam and ketamine can be used as anxiolytic premedication in children.
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