Use of Technology to Improve the Adherence to Surgical Safety Checklists in the Operating Room.

Background: Although checklists can improve safety in the operating room (OR), compliance with their use is variable. Use of a forcing function, a principle of human factors engineering, has not been reported earlier as a method of increasing checklist use. The authors conducted this study to determine the feasibility and effects of introducing a forcing function on OR surgical safety checklist implementation and adherence.

Risk Perception and Preventive Practice During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the General Population.

Background People's perceptions of the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated risk are very essential to prevent the spread of the infection. The awareness among individuals may contribute to preventing COVID-19 infections. Coronavirus disease is a serious public health issue.

Socioeconomic Burden of Critically Ill Patients: A Descriptive Study.

Background The cost of critical illness treatment is generally recognized as expensive and increasing in India. Critical illness of the individual will affect the socioeconomic status of the individual and the family. The direct and indirect costs of intensive care and its impact on the socioeconomic status of critically ill patients and their families need to be estimated.

Long COVID following Omicron wave in Eastern India-A retrospective cohort study.

Long coronavirus disease (COVID) or postacute sequelae of coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) is widely reported but the data of long COVID after infection with the Omicron variant is limited. This study was conducted to estimate the incidence, characteristics of symptoms, and predictors of long COVID among COVID-19 patients diagnosed during the Omicron wave in Eastern India. The cohort of COVID-19 patients included were adults (≥18 years) diagnosed as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 positive with Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction.

Effectiveness of BBV152/Covaxin and AZD1222/Covishield vaccines against severe COVID-19 and B.1.617.2/Delta variant in India, 2021: a multi-centric hospital-based case-control study.

Objectives: India introduced BBV152/Covaxin and AZD1222/Covishield vaccines in January 2021. We estimated the effectiveness of these vaccines against severe COVID-19 among individuals aged ≥45 years.

Methods: We did a multi-centric, hospital-based, case-control study between May and July 2021.

Home Care of Tracheostomized Chronically Critically Ill Patients: A Study of Caregivers' Burden and Comparison with the Burden of Palliative Care Patients in India.

Introduction: Chronically critically ill (CCI) patients often have high costs of care and poor outcomes. Disease management programs offering home care may reduce costs but need buy-in from informal caregivers. An understanding of caregiver burden in this population is lacking.

Spectrum of Bacterial Pathogens in Critical COVID-19 Patients Admitted in Intensive Care Units of a Tertiary Care Hospital During the First and Second Wave of the Pandemic.

Objective: This study intends to compare the clinical characteristics and the prevalence and spectrum of bacterial pathogens in COVID-19 patients admitted to ICU during the first and second waves at a tertiary care, teaching and referral hospital of eastern India.

Method: This is a hospital-based retrospective study which analysed demographic details, clinical profile and bacterial culture results of severe and critically ill COVID-19 patients admitted in intensive care units (ICU) during April -Oct 2020 (1st wave) and April -July 2021 (2nd wave).

Result: The patients admitted during the 2nd wave were comparatively older and had multiple comorbidities compared to the 1st wave.

Azafluorene derivatives as inhibitors of SARS CoV-2 RdRp: Synthesis, physicochemical, quantum chemical, modeling and molecular docking analysis.

The crystal structures of 2-(1H-indol-3-yl)-4-phenyl-5H-indeno [( Cheng et al., 2007; Lee et al., 2003) 1,21,2-b]pyridine-3-carbonitrile (Ia) and 2-(1H-indol-3-yl)-4-(4-methoxyphenyl)-5H-indeno [( Cheng et al.

Crystal structure of 7'-(4-chloro-phen-yl)-2''-(4-meth-oxy-phen-yl)-7',7a',7'',8''-tetra-hydro-1',3',5''-di-spiro-[indoline-3,5'-pyrrolo-[1,2-]thia-zole-6',6''-quinoline]-2,5''-dione and an unknown solvent.

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, CHClNOS, contains two independent mol-ecules ( and ). They differ essentially in the orientation of the 4-meth-oxy-phenyl ring with respect to the pyridine ring of the quinoline moiety; this dihedral angle is 37.01 (18)° in mol-ecule but only 7.

3-[2-Cyclo-propyl-1-(2-fluoro-phen-yl)-2-oxoeth-yl]-5-(4-methyl-sulfanyl-benzyl-idene)-1,3-thia-zolidine-2,4-dione.

In the title compound, C(22)H(18)FNO(3)S(2), the five-membered thia-zolidine ring is planar (r.m.s.

[Cytotoxic compounds from the marine actinobacterium].

We isolated a bioactive streptomycete from marine sediment samples collected at Bay of Bengal, India, during our systematic study of marine actinobacteria. The taxonomic studies indicated that the isolate is related to Strepomyces corchorusii. However, it differed in certain aspects, and, hence, was designated as S.