Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg
April 2023
This article highlights a client with sensorineural hearing loss reported after 2 days of 2nd dose of COVID-19 vaccination. The audiological evaluations suggest unilateral hearing loss which recovered after the treatment. This article focuses on spreading awareness about the complications after vaccination and the importance of treatment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Outcomes mentioned on online health communities (OHCs) by patients can serve as a source of evidence for off-label drug usage evaluation, but identifying these outcomes manually is tedious work. We have built a natural language processing model to identify off-label usage of drugs mentioned in these patient posts.
Materials And Methods: Single patient posts from 4 major OHCs were considered for this study.
Pressurised IntraPeritoneal Aerosol Chemotherapy (PIPAC) is a novel surgical technique to administer aerosolized chemotherapy into the abdominal cavity as treatment for peritoneal metastasis from various cancers. As the surgery is unique and there are concerns about occupational hazards, specific anaesthetic setup and techniques are required. Notably, our institution's experience with PIPAC has enlightened us that anaesthesia requirements during PIPAC are generally uncomplicated and that the majority of the patients undergoing PIPAC do not require invasive monitoring, advanced intra or postoperative analgesia like epidurals or PCA.
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