12 results match your criteria: "Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Education and Research[Affiliation]"

Background And Aim: Family support is one of the most crucial components of cancer care. The familial beliefs and myths associated with cancer can seriously affect the quality of life and treatment outcome of cancer patients. This study intends to explore the prevailing myths, beliefs, and attitude toward cancer among the family caregivers of cancer patients.

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Background And Aims: Diagnosing accurate placement of the tip of the endotracheal tube is crucial in pediatric practice. This study was conducted to find out the efficacy of five clinical methods to ascertain the tube position by a resident anesthesiologist.

Material And Methods: This was a randomized crossover study conducted in a research institute.

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Background: Family accommodation (FA) is a phenomenon whereby caregivers assist/facilitate rituals or behaviors related to obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). FA, however, has been explored primarily in the Western population, and it is unclear to what extent it might be present in diverse cultural settings. At present, little is known about the extent and predictors of FA among caregivers of adult OCD patients in India.

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Background: There is need for a coding system for categorizing the plastic surgery conditions to facilitate efficient data exchange, retrieval, research, time-series analysis, clinical audit, insurance and legal purposes. This is a pilot study to assess feasibility of newly proposed 5-D coding system in categorizing the plastic surgery conditions.

Methods: Retrospective analysis of records of plastic surgery patients visited in last 15 months was done.

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Background. This study was designed to assess and compare the effect of head and neck position on the oropharyngeal leak pressures and cuff position (employing fibreoptic view of the glottis) and ventilation scores between ProSeal LMA and the I-gel. Material and Methods.

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The objective of the study was to assess nucleated red blood cell counts in cord blood in a group of asphyxiated infants, and to determine its predictive value for short-term outcome. A prospective case control study was undertaken on cord blood samples collected from fifty six term neonates with perinatal asphyxia and an equal number of normal appropriately matched controls for cord blood pH and nucleated RBC counts. Babies were followed up in nursery till discharge.

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A rare case of optic nerve entrance coloboma associated with situs inversus is reported.

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A case of gestational choriocarcinoma with haemorrhagic pleural effusion is described. The importance of detection of human chorionic gonadotrophin in pleural fluid is highlighted.

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