Introduction: Self-medication is a most important health issue in developing countries like India. Even though there is abundant healthcare access present. Still self-medication is being chosen by the patients. To estimate the prevalence of self-medication and the factors association to self-medication practices among urban fisherman population in Puducherry. Methods: Cross-Sectional Study con...

Scopolamine (SCP) is an anticholinergic drug used clinically for decades to treat motion sickness, as a surgical preanesthetic, and as a smooth muscle antispasmodic. It has also been used experimentally as a pretreatment and/or treatment adjunct to mitigate the toxic sequelae of organophosphorus (OP) nerve agent intoxication. SCP has been reported to increase survival, prevent or terminate seiz...

PURPOSE To describe the anesthetic management of a patient with Jansky-Bielschowsky disease (JBD), the late infantile form of neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis, characterized by dementia, severe and drug resistant grand mal, myoclonic seizures, and blindness. CLINICAL FEATURES A 14-yr-old girl with JBD was scheduled for resection of a gingival tumour and an infected sinus in the sacral area. Her...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Pallister-Killian Syndrome (PKS) is a rare genetic disease due to a mosaic anomaly of chromosome 12. There is little information about PKS in the anesthetic literature. This report aimed at discussing aspects of this syndrome that may be relevant to anesthesia. CASE REPORT A 5-year-old male patient with typical PKS characteristics (facial dimorphism, temporal alopeci...

OBJECTIVE To improve understanding of the medication reconciliation process, its effect on patient care and outcomes, and how pharmacists can contribute to improving this process using a standardized framework of service delivery defined in the context of medication therapy management. SUMMARY Medication reconciliation is an integral part of the care transitions process in which health care p...

the efficacy of neurofeedback treatment on psychopathological symptoms in addicted male patients was assessed. participants were 20 opiate dependent patients who was seeking medication treatment. after completing the symptom chekclist-90-revised (derogatis, 1975), participants were randomly assigned to an experimental or a witness group. the experimental group received 30 sessions of neurofeedb...

Castleman's disease (CD) is a rare lymphoproliferative disorder of undetermined etiology. Unicentric Castleman's disease is confined to a single lymph node; it is usually asymptomatic though sometimes has local manifestations related to mass effects. In contrast, multicentric Castleman's disease (MCD) typically presents with lymphoid hyperplasia at multiple sites; it is associated with systemic...