Devi Prasad Samaddar

TL;DR: These guidelines, written for clinicians, contains evidence-based recommendations for the prevention of hospital acquired infections Hospital acquired infections are a major cause of mortality and morbidity and provide challenge to clinicians.

TL;DR: The high proportion of TDs and the association of public hospitals, self-paying patients, and inadequately equipped hospitals with mortality has important implications for critical care in India.

TL;DR: Because the ability of APACHE-II to predict mortality was similar to P-POSSUM and APAChe-II does not need scoring for intra-operative findings and histopathology reports, APAC HE-II can be used pre-operatively to assess the risk in patients undergoing emergency laparotomy.

TL;DR: An adult male who presented with a cough for more than 6 months and on radiography, a foreign body was found migrating within the tracheobronchial tree from one mainstem bronchus to the other, at different time points.

TL;DR: An innocuous problem encountered twice duringercutaneous dilatational tracheostomy, where subsequent railroading became difficult owing to migration of guidewire into the Murphy's eye of the endotracheal tube (ETT).