Publications by authors named "V Ganasan"
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- Sarawak General Hospital, the only public tertiary referral center in Sarawak, implemented a hybrid model to care for both COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 patients during the pandemic, which led to challenges due to health-care workers also contracting the virus.
- To combat the rise in infections among healthcare staff, the hospital initiated a mass screening strategy to minimize in-hospital transmission and protect the workforce from further quarantine-related staffing issues.
- The study evaluates the effectiveness of this screening approach over five weeks, considering its implications on healthcare delivery, especially for non-COVID-19 patients in a resource-limited setting, and aims to inform future strategies for managing hybrid hospital systems.
Prevalence and risk factors of postpartum depression, general depressive symptoms, anxiety and stress (PODSAS) among mothers during their 4-week postnatal follow-up in five public health clinics in Perak: A study protocol for a cross-sectional study.
BMJ Open
June 2020
Introduction: Postpartum depression, general depressive symptoms, anxiety and stress (PODSAS) are often overlooked, and may cause morbidity to new mothers, their babies and families. This study aims to determine the point prevalence of depression (post partum and general), anxiety and stress among mothers in five public health clinics in Perak at 4 weeks postdelivery and identify their associated risk factors. Findings from this study will be used to identify the needs for early screening and detection, encourage development of interventions to reduce its occurrence and support mothers with PODSAS.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Night-time gastroesophageal reflux (nGER) symptoms are commonly associated with interrupted sleep. Most studies attempting to understand the relationship between sleep, arousal, and nGER events have been performed so using accelerometry; however, this technology is limited in its ability to precisely determine the temporal association between sleep and reflux events. We aimed to examine the temporal relationships between nGER events and arousal/awakening from sleep using high resolution, in-laboratory polysomnography (PSG).
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