NUTRITIONAL ANAEMIA

– Dr. Ramesh Mundle Professor, Dept. of Medicine, NKPSIMS Anemia is the most common of all blood disorders. Anemia results from reduced red blood cell production in the bone marrow. Nutritional anemia is defined as anaemia which occurs when there…

HEMOLYTIC ANAEMIAS: A BRIEF OVERVIEW

Dr. Avinash Pophali Haematologist & Medical Oncologist & BMT Consultant, Director, Central India Institute of Haematology & Oncology (CIIHO) Hemolysis is the destruction or removal of red blood cells from the circulation before their normal life span of 120 days.…

1st Maharashtra State Biennial CME – 2013

ISA – Nagpur City Branch hosted 1st ISA Maharashtra State Biennial CME – 2013 on 23rd and 24th November 2013 at J.R. Shaw auditorium, IMA House, Nagpur. Maharashtra Medical Council had granted FOUR credit points for this CME. Total 376…

ISA – NCB celebrates World Anaesthesia Day

ISA – Nagpur City Branch celebrates WORLD ANAESTHESIA DAY Indian Society of Anaesthesiology – Nagpur City Branch celebrated WORLD ANAESTHESIA DAY on 16th October 2013. The main agenda was public awareness towards anaesthesia speciality and the anaesthesiologist. As part of…

COPD- AN IRREVERSIBLE REACTIVE AIRWAY DISEASE

– Dr. Radha Munje Prof and Head, Chest & TB, IGGMC, Nagpur We have heard and often talked about pink puffers and blue bloaters which are the characteristic presentation of patients of COPD . Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) represents…

RADS – Bronchial Asthma & COPD

Dr. Girish Deshpande MBBS, MD (Medicine), Consultant Physician and Intensivist Reactive Airways Disease: Reactive Airways Disease is a general term for conditions involving wheezing and allergic reactions.(1) Reactive Airways Dysfunction Syndrome (RADS): RADS is a term proposed by Stuart M…

REACTIVE AIRWAY DISEASE: CAN I USE THE TERM?

DR. Nilofer Salim Mujawar Professor, Dept. of Paediatrics, NKPSIMS Frequently one finds the diagnosis written on discharge cards as “reactive airways” and “reactive airways disease”. Perhaps what the physician wanted to convey is a diagnosis of asthma. The terms though…