CME INDIA REPOSITORY

Second Wave of COVID Epidemic: Limited Hope?

Second Wave of COVID Epidemic: Limited Hope?

CME INDIA Presentation by Dr N K Singh, Admin. “You need fuel for a fire. When there is no fuel left, which is susceptible people, then the spread of the infection can decline.” - Professor Gagandeep Kang of CMC, Vellore. Is it True for India? The development of...

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Cytokine Fever in COVID-19: The Way Ahead

Cytokine Fever in COVID-19: The Way Ahead

CME INDIA Presentation by Dr N K Singh, Admin. Pyrexia in COVID-19 is not an easy to tackle problem in many cases. Remember it is not only thermal dysregulation, it is cytokine fever. Many cases are reported who get fever post discharge for 2 to 3 weeks. How to deal...

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All that glitters is not COVID-19

All that glitters is not COVID-19

CME INDIA Presentation by Dr N K Singh, Admin. These days whatever cases come with history of fever with chest findings in HRCT thorax, most of us think about COVID-19. It is fully justified too. But many times, some basic diagnosis with basic tests can clear the...

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Intuitive Eating: Moving away from ‘Rules’ around Eating

Intuitive Eating: Moving away from ‘Rules’ around Eating

CME INDIA Presentation by Dr. Anuradha Kapoor, MD, Diabetologist, Mumbai and Dr. Akash Kumar Singh, MD, MSc (Diabetes). Heal your relationship with food Intuitive eating is a self-care eating approach that was created by two registered dietitians, Evelyn Tribole and...

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COVID-19: HOPE and HYPE in Post-COVID Lung Fibrosis

COVID-19: HOPE and HYPE in Post-COVID Lung Fibrosis

CME INDIA Presentation by Dr. Bhavin Jankharia. He is presently Consultant Radiologist at “Picture This by Jankharia.” He is the Trustee of Radiology Education Foundation (REF), a non-profit institution started in 1996 with the aim to foster radiology education among...

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HRCT Thorax in COVID-19: A storm is brewing?

HRCT Thorax in COVID-19: A storm is brewing?

CME INDIA Presentation by Admin. Dr Bijay Patni, Diabetologist, Kolkata observes:1. COVID-19 has taken another toll - CT SCAN machines😀2. CT scan machines collapses for being overworked.3. Scan being advised left, right and centre.4. Immediate govt. interference...

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COVID-19 Treatment – The Elephant in the Room

COVID-19 Treatment – The Elephant in the Room

CME INDIA Presentation by Dr N K Singh, Admin. Solidarity Trial, co-ordinated by WHO and executed by ICMR in India is able to answers some critical questions about COVID-19 Therapeutics. Take a case - asymptomatic /mild / moderate /severe /critical - interim analysis...

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COVID-19: Finally Predicting the Unpredictable?

COVID-19: Finally Predicting the Unpredictable?

CME INDIA Presentation by Dr N K Singh, Admin. It is said that COVID patients get betrayed by their own Immune systems. Nobody knows the way virus behaves. Most do recover but may young patients have died. Multiple comorbidities mixed patient recovered and obese at...

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Is SOLIDARITY trial a death sentence to Remdesivir?

Is SOLIDARITY trial a death sentence to Remdesivir?

CME INDIA Presentation by Admin. To be clear, sensible medicine does not mean clinicians should not intervene. Rather, it proposes a gentler, moderate, and humble view of available treatment options and their effectiveness in patients with COVID-19. In the middle is a...

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Methylene Blue in COVID-19: Is it Blue or Red?

Methylene Blue in COVID-19: Is it Blue or Red?

CME INDIA Presentation by Dr N K Singh, Admin. At that time, two philosophical quotes motivated me to rewrite the rejected letter from Lancet: “Medicine is the science of uncertainty and the art of probability” (William Osler) and “Nothing belongs to you more than...

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Oxygen is the Superhero in COVID-19: But how long?

Oxygen is the Superhero in COVID-19: But how long?

CME INDIA Presentation by Dr Chandrakant Tarke, MD, DNB, DM, EDRM, MNAMS, Consultant Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine. Hyderabad. How to identify Oxygen toxicity? Whether excess use of oxygen precipitates pulmonary fibrosis? These days such questions haunt...

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COVID-Net: Poor man’s HRCT makes waves

COVID-Net: Poor man’s HRCT makes waves

CME INDIA Presentation. See this scientific paper with case studies and learning points. Implementation of ‘COVID-Net’, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform in detection of COVID-19 through Chest X-Rays – Study at 2 centers in Bokaro Anurag Agrawal1*, Sumit...

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Diabetes and Coronavirus – Cocktail Killing

Diabetes and Coronavirus – Cocktail Killing

CME INDIA Presentation by Dr N K Singh, Admin. We are seeing too many uncontrolled hyperglycaemias in COVID! How it happens? Any reference to mechanism of hyperglycaemia in COVID apart from stress and steroids! Also, they drop sugars very rampantly post discharge…. Dr...

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Post-Acute COVID-19: Know the road to Recovery.

Post-Acute COVID-19: Know the road to Recovery.

CME INDIA Presentation by Dr N K Singh, Admin/Inputs from Dr Akash Kumar Singh, Baroda and Dr Saibal Guha, Patna. COVID-19 pandemic continues unabated. Most of the near and dear to you are in the grip of the bizarre virus, about which we hardly know enough. We are...

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COVID-19: Which Bells Are Ringing In Tune?

COVID-19: Which Bells Are Ringing In Tune?

CME INDIA Presentation by Admin. “If what you are doing isn’t working, change what you are doing” - Laurie Buchanan We all use some drugs of unproven efficacy due to mad rush in COVID management. Are we ignoring the science and art of medicine? Many bells are ringing...

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