Introduction Patients with hematologic malignancy (HM) often require admission to the intensive care unit (ICU) due to organ failure through disease progression or complications of treatment. Although there have been improvements in the prognosis of patients with HM, mortality in this patient population remains high. We sought to describe patient characteristics and determinants of outcomes in ...

Background Right-sitting chronic asthma care from acute hospitals to the Primary Care Provider (PCP) is an initiative undertaken at an institution in Singapore. Follow up care delivered by PCP like polyclinics (OPS) or general practitioners (GP) will aid to free hospital and Emergency Department (ED) to provide more acute and complex specialized care. This study was to evaluate the outcome afte...

The aim of our study was to assess asthma control among asthmatics at a tertiary care setting in Karachi using ACT questionnaire. The ACT questionnaire was filled by known asthmatics in January 2007. A total of 150 questionnaires were filled of which, 61 (40%) were males and 89 (60%) females. Mean ACT score was 17.71 +/- 4.41. Association between sex and asthma control was not statistically sig...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To study whether hospitals of different levels are equally safe places to give birth in a regionalised system of care. DESIGN This was a population based, cross sectional survey comparing birth outcomes in nationwide catchment areas of different levels of hospital care. All women and low risk women were examined separately. SETTING AND SUBJECTS The study population comprised...

OBJECTIVE  To determine the frequency of micro-organisms causing sepsis as well as to determine the antibiotic susceptibility and resistance of microorganisms isolated in a medical intensive care unit. MATERIALS AND METHODS  This is a cross-sectional analysis of 802 patients from a medical intensive care unit (ICU) of Shifa International Hospital, Islamabad, Pakistan over a one-year period fr...

This research aimed to establish the level of consumer experience with pastoral/spiritual care provision in a large tertiary private hospital. Two hundred and twenty-seven patients and bereaved carers of deceased patients who had received pastoral care were surveyed, with a response rate of 20% (n1⁄4 44). The key finding was the positive impact of pastoral care encounters, with the majority of ...

PROBLEM Antiretroviral therapy (ART) programmes have been successful in several countries. However, whether they would succeed as part of a national programme in a resource-constrained setting such as India is not clear. The outcomes and specific problems encountered in such a setting have not been adequately studied. APPROACH We assessed the efficacy and functioning of India's national ART p...

Background: Endotracheal intubation is an essential resuscitative procedure in the emergency setting, to maintain a patent airway. In our day-to-day practice at tertiary care centre calls for remain quite demand. As we all know setting first advocate maintaining so-called A (airway), B(breathing) and C(circulation) this where lies importance of intubation.
 Objective: The study was done as...