16 results match your criteria: "Pandit B.D. Sharma Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences[Affiliation]"

Background Health literacy plays an important role in determining healthcare and medication outcomes. There is a lack of an appropriate, validated scale to assess health literacy status among the Hindi-speaking population. We translated and validated the English version of the All Aspects of Health Literacy Scale (AAHLS) into Hindi.

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Nevus comedonicus and hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) are disorders of the pilosebaceous unit sharing a similar pathogenesis of follicular occlusion. To our knowledge, less than 10 cases of HS-like lesions complicating nevus comedonicus have been reported. We describe a six-year-old female child with congenital linear nevus comedonicus in the left axilla and groin, complicated by recurrent HS-like lesions in the two years prior to presenting to our clinic.

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Background: Beyond one month of age, there is generally a drop in the proportion of mothers providing exclusive breastfeeding to their infants. Infants with morbidities during neonatal period have been observed to be at higher risk of discontinuation.

Objective: To enumerate the prevalent factors behind discontinuation of breastfeeding among high risk newborns by first month of life.

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Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of skin cleansing with chlorhexidine (CHD) in the prevention of neonatal nosocomial sepsis - a randomized controlled trial.

Methods: This study design was a randomized controlled trial carried out in a tertiary care center of north India. About 140 eligible neonates were randomly allocated to either the subject area group (wiped with CHD solution till day seven of life) or the control group (wiped with lukewarm water).

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Objective: To study the effect of chlorhexidine (CHD) application on umbilical cord and evaluate its impact on duration of NICU stay and antibiotic exposure days.

Method: We enrolled 140 newborns in our study (70 in intervention group and 70 in control group), and their data were collected. Newborns in control group were given routine umbilical cord care, and intervention group received CHD spray on umbilical cord three times a day and for the next three days of cord fall.

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Aim: To study the impact of chlorhexidine cleansing of the umbilical cord on cord separation time and neonatal mortality in comparison to dry cord care.

Methods: This is the secondary analysis of the data of the study which was conducted in the NICU of a teaching hospital in north India between 2010 and 2011. Newborns (>32 weeks of gestation and weighing >1500 g) were randomized into chlorhexidine application and dry cord care groups.

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Aim: To compare topical application of chlorhexidine for umbilical cord care with conventional dry care for prevention of neonatal sepsis in neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).

Methods: The study was conducted in the NICU of a teaching hospital in north India between 2010 and 2011. Newborns (≥ 32 weeks of gestation and weighing ≥ 1500 g) were randomized into chlorhexidine application and dry care groups.

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This study reports the results of 3 cross-sectional surveys and demonstrates a birth cohort effect for pulmonary functions in students admitted to our Institute in 1974, 1986 and 1991. Improvement in height, weight and haemoglobin of students was accompanied with improvement in ventilatory (FVC, FEV1/FVC%,FEF25-75%) as well as diffusion functions (TLCO(SB), Dm, VC), specially in Group 2 and 3. Study of some vital statistics of state of Haryana from 1974 to 1992 significantly visualizes this period as period of green revolution and industrialization of the state.

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Bladder exstrophy is an unusual congenital anomaly. Patients becoming pregnant with such anomaly after surgical repair are even rarer. The present case reports a lower segment Caesarean section delivery of a living healthy baby in a woman who had been operated on for bladder exstrophy at the age of 18 years.

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This is a retrospective study of 27 cases of congenital short colon with anorectal malformation (pouch colon syndrome) treated during the last 5 years (from January 1991 to December 1995). The radiological feature of enormously dilated colonic pouch occupying more than half the width of abdomen was diagnostic in almost all cases. Excision of pouch and end enterostomy was associated with maximum survival (92.

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Pulmonary functions including lung volumes and pulmonary diffusing capacity were assessed in 137 healthy female subjects, 18-52 years of age. The results were analysed by age-wise division of subjects in six groups. It was observed that there were wide variations in pulmonary function values from one individual to another depending upon age and height of the subjects.

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Spirometry was performed in 186 healthy school children, 6-13 years of age, selected from urban population of Rohtak city (India), to derive the regression equation for prediction of normal value of ventilatory lung function in this age group. Values of lung functions in the present study are well comparable to other North Indian studies and Western reports, but higher than the South Indian children. Lung functions have shown better linear correlation with age and height as compared to weight.

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