Health Sciences

Background: Diabetic foot, an entity with great polymorphism, includes from minimal to catastrophic injuries like gangrene. Treatment is debridement, infection management, and revascularization procedures when indicated. Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy improves tissue hypoxia and promotes fibroblast proliferation. Goals: To determine the effectiveness of adjuvant hyperbaric oxygen therapy as a treatment that increase fibroblasts production in diabetic foot wounds.

Background: The potentially inappropriate pharmacological prescription in older adults occurs when the risk of adverse effects is greater than the clinical benefit when prescribing a medication. Objective: Determine the risk factors for potentially inappropriate drug prescription in older adults. Methods: Observational, cross-sectional, prospective and analytical study in patients who visited the Veracruz Specialties Naval Hospital. Including age from 65 years, at least one chronic condition and at least one control medication.

Topic: Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Toward Infant Oral Health Care among the Pediatricians in Chennai: A Questionnaire Survey. Background: Oral Health Care in infants is of utmost importance as it plays a major role in the overall health. Pediatricians and family doctors are considered to be in a unique position to contribute to the dental health of children as they are brought to them at a very young age itself. The aim of this study was to study the Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Toward Infant Oral Health Care among the pediatricians in Chennai.

Introduction: Sickle cell anemia is characterized by chronic red cell hemolysis which leads to chronic anemia. Patients with sickle cell may be asymptomatic (steady-state) even with anemia. One easy and minimally invasive method of assessing anemia is by using the packed cell volume. Objective: The study aimed at determining the steady-state packed cell volume among sickle cell patients and to ascertain if Doppler ultrasound can be used to predict the degree of anemia in sickle cell disease.

Introduction- these lifestyle interventions namely diet and exercise can have a role to play in slowing down the progress of diabetes in T2DM. Material & Method: This was a intervention, pre and post study. Diabetic patients in the age group of 30-60 years, including both sexes and taking treatment since 5 to 10 years . Result- The finding in Group B is significant which implies that diet affects HbA1C. The finding in Group B also showed that diet can affect HDL values significantly. And the finding of Group A was significant which shows that exercise affects LDL values.

Introduction: The STOP-Bang questionnaire has been useful to identify patients with high risk of oxygen desaturation, among others postoperative complications. Objective: Determine the association of oxygen desaturation with the high STOP-Bang questionnaire applied in preanaesthetic consultation. Materials and methods: Observational, prospective, longitudinaldesign. It was performed in the Navy Medical Center. The study included patients over 18 years old divided into two groups under general anesthesia: the STOP-Bang score < 3 and ≥3.

Background: in nursing homes there are 50-80% of partial or total edentulous need prostheses. Loss of these dentures is frequent, so it is important to put an identification mark. This would also serve the purpose of forensic identification. The aim of this work is to collect different solutions to prevent the loss of dentures of elderly people in residences, and propose a new one. Materials and methods: a literature review of scientific papers on the loss of dentures of the elderly in residences has been made.

Introduction: Difficult intubation is defined as the need for three or more attempts for intubation of the trachea or more than 10 minutes to complete, situation occurs in 1.5% to 8% of the general anesthesia procedures. Objective: In this study a comparison of the assessment of airway ultrasound specifically insonando hyoid bone for display or not, compared to the degree of Cormack-Lehane in adult patients undergoing general anesthesia was performed.

The name ‘Paracetamol’ is derived from a compound name PARA-ACETylAMinophenOL by taking the underlined alphabets together. It is also refered to as acetaminophen. In some contexts, it is simply abbreviated as APAP, for Acetyl-Para AminoPhenol. Also variously referred to by trade names like Tylenol, Panadol and others. It is used orally, rectally, intramuscularly and intravenously. It is metabolized predominantly in the liver and 85-90% is excreted in the urine. Paracetamol is the active metabolite of phenacetin, once popular as an analgesic and antipyretic in its own right.

Background: Cardiovascular diseases risk factors, develop silently during childhood and adolescence with the manifestation of the disease in adulthood. Hence, identification of individual risk factors in childhood is a good method to assess cardiovascular risk level in apparently healthy children. The objective of this study was to examine the prevalence of cardiovascular disease risk factors among primary school children in Calabar, Nigeria.