CME INDIA REPOSITORY
COVID-19: From The Other Side
CME INDIA Presentation by Dr Anand Malani, MD, Sangli (Maharashtra). Interest - Critical care/ Infectious diseases/ Rheumatology. After writing few scientific articles about COVID, it’s time to write the views as experienced from the other side! I mean from the...
15 Litre Oxygen Dependent Syndrome in COVID: The Bump Ahead
CME INDIA Presentation by Dr Pratik Savaj, Infectious disease physician, DNB Medicine FID/FNB Infectious disease Surat, Gujrat. Contact: pratiksavaj2@gmail.com. Virus came, virus stayed and we will keep dealing with the complications for years - even after the...
Timing is important to COVID-19 treatment: When to initiate Antiviral, Steroid and Anticoagulant?
CME INDIA Presentation by Dr Basab Ghosh, Internist, Agartala. COVID-19 is a clinical diagnosis and RT-PCR is to confirm the diagnosis. RT-PCR is positive in 80% cases, rest 20% can be clinically identified to isolate and treat. In COVID-19 treatment 'timing' is very...
Tackling Acute Myocardial Infarction in COVID Era: Panic Unlimited
CME INDIA Presentation by Admin. It is well known that the COVID-19 outbreak led to a substantial drop in the number of admitted STEMI cases as well as delays in patients’ access to care. The proportion of patients undergoing primary PCI decreased. It was expected...
The current “Knowledge Gap” in COVID-19: Indecision Strom is full blown
CME INDIA Presentation by Dr N K Singh, Admin CME INDIA. Avoiding premature favorable recommendations for potentially ineffective or harmful interventions has become a cobweb like situation. In a panic-driven scenario with everchanging concepts, we all are probably...
Exercise – Secret weapon to beat COVID-19?
CME INDIA Presentation by Dr N K Singh, Admin CME INDIA. Since Lock down most of patients and even regular walkers have stopped doing daily exercises due to panic driven awareness of social distancing. But emerging science tells us the amazing role of exercise to...
Nature sent COVID-19 as the ultimate bioterrorist. Learn the ways of coming to terms with it.
CME INDIA Presentation by Dr N K Singh, Admin CME INDIA. Understanding the exploded time bomb - planted as ultimate bioterrorist - is essential to cope with the life on earth today. Is nature nurturing itself? If so, is it not time to nurture ourselves? High mortality...
What works and what doesn’t in COVID-19? Is leaving all on Nature the answer?
CME INDIA Presentation by Admin. Real case scenarios now bring agony to physicians. Which way to move and what dangers are still largely understood? CME INDIA discussion: Dr Ambrish Mithal, DM Endo, Delhi: According to friends in the US - No Azithromycin. No...
CORONA at our doorsteps: Intensify your senses to beat it!
CME INDIA Presentation by Dr Anand Malani, MD, Sangli (Maharashtra). Interest - Critical care/ Infectious diseases/ Rheumatology. PREVENTIVE ASPECTS FOR COVID-19 IN NON-COVID HOSPITAL SETTINGS We are in UNLOCK phase for COVID-19, which has lived upon its name as it...
Intelligent use of simple scientific facts can be extremely game changing in COVID-19
CME INDIA Presentation by Dr Anand Malani, MD, Sangli (Maharashtra). Interest - Critical care/ Infectious diseases/ Rheumatology. HOME CARE FOR COVID-19 An article about self-treatment guidance and care for Medicos getting treated at home. Young frontline and health...
COVID-19: It’s not at all over, in fact it’s all-over!
CME INDIA Presentation by Dr Anand Malani, MD, Sangli (Maharashtra). Interest - Critical care/ Infectious diseases/ Rheumatology. COVID PEARLS: From personal experience. I will like to put up some observations from my experience in treating COVID, from myself and all...
Fear of COVID to Present Infection or Reinfection: Start Wearing the Vaccine!
CME INDIA Presentation by Admin. MASK is the VACCINE, Take it Properly. And with 31 million known coronavirus infections worldwide so far, a few reinfections might not be cause to worry — yet. - Virologist Thomas Geisbert (the University of Texas). Panic button to...
Steroids & Anticoagulants from Day 1 in high risk cases? Do physicians follow standard guidelines?
CME INDIA Presentation by Admin. COVID-19 virus is mutating and so is the status of guidelines. Reality is hard. People refrain to go for test due to administrative torture. HRCT is considered more useful by physicians than rtPCR. And, once positive, even advised for...
Is High Flow Nasal Cannula (HFNC) the Eureka of COVID ICU?
CME INDIA Presentation by Dr N K Singh, Admin, CME INDIA. Needless to say, LMWH, Steroids and High Flow Oxygen Therapy have changed the scenario. Out of juke box, LMWH and steroids have become almost undisputable to save life in COVID ICU. Let us have some look at...
In COVID 19: When and How to use Anti-coagulants? Have they become the new Avatar?
CME INDIA Presentation by Dr Awanindra Kumar Singh, MD Physician, PGDCC. Working as Attending consultant in Non Invasive Cardiology with Artemis Cardiac care unit at Raj Hospital Ranchi, Previously associated with Delhi Heart and Lung institute, Forties Escorts &...
Cytokine Storm is the sinking ship of COVID-19?
CME INDIA Presentation by Dr N K Singh, Admin, CME INDIA. See four very interesting scenarios: Scenario 1 Dr Natraj, COVID Nodal Officer in Govt., Thiruvarur Medical College, Tamil Nadu: I have seen and treated a lot of cases due to COVID. Faced many deaths in my...
The COVID-19 Diagnostic Dilemma: Clinician’s Dysphoria
CME INDIA Presentation by Dr N K Singh, Admin, CME INDIA. See two very interesting COVID Scenarios. Scenario 1: Case by Dr Bijay Patni, Diabetologist, Kolkata. All 8 members of a family got Positive. This is report of a 24-year female. Date 25/07/20. Gets fever,...
COVID journey to Brain can be Scarier than you think.
CME INDIA Presentation by Dr N K Singh, Admin, CME INDIA. CME INDIA Discussion: Dr Abhishek Kumar Singh, DM, Neuro, Patna: I have recently treated one COVID with GBS treated with IVIg, improved. Another one COVID with encephalitis, Waiting for RT PCR FOR COVID in CSF....
India facing a Favipiravir Storm? Mad rush for Anti-viral drugs.
CME INDIA Presentation by Dr N K Singh, Admin, CME INDIA. Experts seem to be divided on 2 issues widely - Hydroxyquinoline (HCQ) and Favipirvir. Courtesy: Dr Satish Kumar, Bokaro See this comment: Dr Awadhesh K Singh, DM endo., Kolkata says: this should have been...
Sudden loss of smell and taste in COVID-19: Greet your patient as Lucky?
CME INDIA Presentation by Dr N K Singh, Admin, CME INDIA. Could anosmia and loss of taste be a COVID pointer? What is the observational experience of anosmia? Could it be a pointer as mild disease? What is the average time to recovery? Are there some measures to treat...