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Tiwari Ranjana., MD,PhD,DGO, MNAMS,DH & HMgt, PGCHMFW, CCIP1,*,Chouksey Mahendra2,
Jain Vikas3, Jain Swapnil 4, Yuwane Praveen5, Tiwari Sakshi 6
Affiliation:-
1Professor, MD, PhD, DGO, MNAMS, DH & HMgt, PGCHMFW, CCIP Department of Community Medicine/PSM G.R. Medical College, Gwalior (M.P.), India
2Assistant Professor, Department of Community Medicine/PSM G.R. Medical College, Gwalior (M.P.), India
3Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, G.R. Medical College, Gwalior (M.P.), India
4P.G.Scholar 2nd year, Department of Community Medicine/PSM G.R. Medical College, Gwalior (M.P.), India
5M.B.B.S. Student Batch-2013 GMC Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India
The name of the department(s) and institution(s) to which the work should be attributed:
1.CCIP Department of Community Medicine/PSM G.R. Medical College, Gwalior (M.P.), India
Authors contributions:
All the authors contributed equally to this paper.
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* Dr.Ranjana Tiwari,
Professor, Department of Community Medicine/PSM G.R. Medical College, Gwalior (M.P.), India
ABSTRACT
Introduction: Health consciousness regarding knowing their blood group is the awareness of people about their health. The ABO and Rhesus Blood Groups were discovered and identified in 1900 and 1940 respectively. The ABO blood group system is the only system in which antibodies are consistently & predictably present in the serum of normal individuals whose red cells lack the antigen. The ABO system remains by far the most significant for transfusion.
Aims & Objective: To assess the awareness of consciousness of knowing their blood group, Rhesus system, universal recipient, universal donor & also to determine the predominated blood group among them & also to prepare a database for different blood groups for the blood bank.
Methods: The Present Study has been undertaken at the time of admission of Ist year Medical Students regarding the consciousness of knowing their blood group. A total of 150 students were admitted through NEET 2013, MP PMT 2013 GOI seats and NRI seats of different categories. During counselling a prestructured questionnaire was given and information was taken. A total of 136 students participated in this study.
Results: The awareness regarding knowledge of knowing their blood groups were present in 85 (62.50%) students while 51(37. 50%) were unaware. The Maximum prevalence was of B Group i.e. 36 (42.35%) followed by O i.e. 34 (40.00 %), A 10(11.76%) & AB 5(5.89%) respectively.
Conclusion: In school education the awareness should be generated among the students for making them conscious regarding the knowledge of knowing their Blood Group.
KEYWORDS: Awareness of blood group; Rh type; Universal donor; Universal recipient.
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Article citation:
Tiwari R, Chouksey M, Jain V ,Jain S, Yuwane P, Tiwari S. A Study to Assess Awareness of Consciousness of Knowing their Blood Group of Ist Year Medical Students at the time of Admission at G.R. Medical College, Gwalior (M.P.), India. J Pharm Biomed Sci 2014; 04(08):688-693. Available at www.jpbms.info.
Copyright © 2014 Tiwari R, Chouksey M, Jain V ,Jain S, Yuwane P, Tiwari S. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Original Article
Mahadeo Mane1,*, C.M.Kiran1, T.Mohana Lakshmi2, E. Prabhakar Reddy3
Affiliation:-
¹Department of Pathology, 2Department of Microbiology,3Department of Biochemistry, Sri Lakshmi Narayana Institute of Medical Sciences, Puducherry, India
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Sri Lakshmi Narayana Institute of Medical Sciences, Puducherry, India
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Sri Lakshmi Narayana Institute of Medical Sciences,
Puducherry,India or at manepath@yahoo.com.
Article citation:
Mane M,Kiran CM,Lakshmi TM,Reddy EP. Storage and stability of Blood samples – changes in the haematological values. J Pharm Biomed Sci 2014; 04(08):685-687. Available at www.jpbms.info
ABSTRACT
Introduction: The problem of medical errors has recently received a red alert of attention. For clinical laboratory medicine, the most frequent errors occur in the pre and post analytical phases. In general haematological parameters have been measured from EDTA anticoagulant whole blood, shortly after drawing. The time exciting between the blood drawing and the measurement of hematological parameters and the preparation, staining of blood smears for blood cell morphology examination. Material and Methods: Blood samples from healthy volunteer 26 subjects (13 women and 13 Men), aged (18-60years), were collected at SLIMS in puducherry and samples obtained by the vein puncture method and stored into EDTA tubes the blood sample were aliquated and separated into two groups.
Results and Discussion: The quality of results will probably improve because standardized storage conditions reduce pre analytical variation hematological parameters affected by storage and temperature in a way that could influence clinical decisions our research reports are supporting to do away assay immediately after drawing of CBC and blood cell morphological examination in order to avoid the misinterpretation of results.
KEYWORDS: Anticoagulant; Biochemical; heamtological Investigations; Clinical laboratory; Whole blood; Heamglobin.
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Copyright © 2014 Mane M, Kiran CM,Lakshmi TM,Reddy EP. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Research article
Hadiza Lawal1 ,Emmanuel E. ANYEBE, RN,MSc,FWACN2,*, Reginald Obiako Onyeadumalwke3
Affiliation:-
¹Paediatric unit, Nursing Services Department ABU Teaching Hospital, Zaria-Nigeria
2Research and Training Unit, School of Nursing ABU Teaching Hospital, Zaria-Nigeria
3Neurology Unit, Department of Medicine, ABU Teaching Hospital, Zaria-Nigeria
The name of the department(s) and institution(s) to which the work should be attributed:
1.Paediatric unit, Nursing Services Department ABU Teaching Hospital, Zaria-Nigeria
2.Research and Training Unit, School of Nursing ABU Teaching Hospital, Zaria-Nigeria
3.Neurology Unit, Department of Medicine, ABU Teaching Hospital, Zaria-Nigeria
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* Emmanuel E. ANYEBE, RN,MSc,FWACN
Chief Nurse Educator/Research Fellow
Chairman, Research and Training Unit,
Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital
School of Nursing, Zaria, Kaduna State,Nigeria
ABSTRACT
Aim: The study was aimed at describing the pattern of neurological dysfunctions among children attending outpatient clinic of ABUTH Zaria and the psychological challenges faced by their parents.
Design: A descriptive cross- sectional study.
Setting: Paediatric Neurology Outpatient Clinic, Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital Shika – Zaria, Kaduna State, Northern Nigerian.
Methodology: A non-probability, the availability sampling method was used to enroll 60 parents who participated in the study. Data were collected through an interviewer administered close-ended questionnaire.
Results: Sixty-one children were affected (a parent had 2). Cerebral palsy (50.8%) and seizure disorders (39.4%) were the commonest deficits found. With a mean age of 5years, male (55%) and the 1st children (44.3%) were most affected. Identified risk factors were: infection/childhood disease (65%), asphyxia (23.3%), and prolonged labour (18.3%). Many parents reacted emotionally to the initial diagnosis and expressed its challenges on them and their family at large. No governmental or nongovernmental assistance programmes were identified.
Conclusion: Parents face several psychological challenges in caring for children with neurological deficits.
Recommendations: Parents should be well informed about early identification of neurological deficits and the management of such as soon as it is noticed; they should be educated on the importance of supervised antenatal care, deliveries and postnatal care, including routine childhood immunizations; while government and non-government organisations should provide special schools and rehabilitation centres for affected children.
KEYWORDS: Psychological challenges; parents; neurological deficit; children.
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Article citation:
Lawal H., Anyebe E.E., Obiako O.R. Pattern of Neurological Dysfunctions in children attending Outpatient Clinics in ABUTH Zaria and Psychological Challenges faced by their parents. J Pharm Biomed Sci. 2014;04(08):679-684. Available at www.jpbms.info
Copyright © 2014 Lawal H., Anyebe E.E., Obiako O.R. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Original Research Article
A.Mary Antony Praba¹,* C.Venkatramaniah²,G.Kavitha3.
Affiliation:-
¹Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy, Tagore Medical College, Chennai, India
²Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy, Sri Lakshmi Narayana Institute of Medical Sciences, Pondy, India
ᵌProfessor, Department of Anatomy, Sri Lakshmi Narayana Institute of Medical Sciences, Pondy, India
The name of the department(s) and institution(s) to which the work should be attributed:
1. Department of Anatomy, Tagore Medical College & Hospital, Chennai,India
2. Associate Professor, Department of Anatomy, Tagore Medical College & Hospital, Chennai,India
3. Professor, Department of Anatomy, Sri Lakshmi Narayana Institute of Medical Sciences, Pondy, India
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* A. Mary Antony Praba.
Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy, Tagore Medical College, Chennai, India
ABSTRACT
Huntington’s disease is a fatal neurodegenerative disorder that causes defects in behaviour and cognition also uncontrolled rapid, jerky movements in the body. Huntington’s disease is also known as Huntington’s chorea because it is characterized by continuous, choreiform movements of the body (especially the limbs and face). For this study we produced a model of Huntington’s chorea by injecting 0.5µl of kainic acid into the basal ganglia bilaterally. For this study the animals were divided into 8 groups CO, LC, WS100, WS125, WS150, WD5, WD50 and WD100, with 6 animals each. All the animals except CO and LC were pretreated with particular drug 10 days prior lesion surgery. Lesion surgery was performed in all the animals except CO group of animals, the brain tissue were collected within 24 hours and analysed for antioxidant enzymes.
The LC group animals exhibited continuous choreiform movements in the face, body and limbs. The other group of animals were not showing any choreiform movements.
The biochemical analysis shown the antioxidant enzyme such as SOD, GPX and CAT levels were increased significantly for drug group animals in comparison with CO animals. The lesion control animal showed a slight increase in the SOD level and reduced levels of Catalase and GPX. Between the drug group of animals the animal groups WS125 and WD100 shown maximum antioxidant activity and proves the efficacy of the drug in free radical scavenging and neuroprotection.
KEYWORDS: CO=control group; LC= lesion control; WS100 = ethanolic extract of withania somnifera 100mg/kg.bw; WS125 ethanolic extract of withania somnifera 125mg/kg.bw.; WS150= ethanolic extract of withania somnifera 150mg/kg.bw., WD5= withanolide A 5µg/kg.bw., WD50= withanolide A 50µg/kg.bw., WD100= withanolide A 100µg/kg.bw., SOD= superoxide dismutase; GPX= glutathione peroxidase, CAT= catalase.
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Article citation:
Praba AMA.,Venkatramaniah C., Kavitha G. Free radical scavenging and neuroprotective Effect Of Withania Somnifera And It’s Active Principle Withanolide A In Huntington’s Chorea Model Of Rats. J Pharm Biomed Sci. 2014; 04(08):674-678. Available at www.jpbms.info
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Research Article
Jayanta Kumar Nandi1,Sougata Kumar Burman2,*, Debasis Das3,Dipta Prasun Saha4, Sangita Pal5
Affiliation:-
1RMO cum Clinical Tutor, Dept of Obs & Gynae, North Bengal Medical College, Sushrutnagar, Darjeeling, India
2Assistant Professor, Dept of Obs & Gynae, College of Medicine & JNM Hospital, WBUHS, Kalyani, Nadia, India
3Associate Professor, Dept of Community Medicine, Malda Medical College, Malda, India
4Associate Professor, Dept of Obs & Gynae, North Bengal Medical College, Sushrutnagar, Darjeeling, India
5Sangita Pal, Medical Officer, Nadia District Hospital, Nadia, India
The name of the department(s) and institution(s) to which the work should be attributed:
1.Department of Obs & Gynae, North Bengal Medical College, Sushrutnagar, Darjeeling, India
2.Department of Obs & Gynae, College of Medicine & JNM Hospital, WBUHS, Kalyani, Nadia, India
3.Department of Community Medicine, Malda Medical College, Malda, India
Authors contributions:
All the authors contributed equally to this paper.
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Assistant Professor,
College of Medicine & JNM Hospital, WBUHS, Kalyani, Nadia, India
ABSTRACT
Objective: To determine the influence of socio-economic and cultural factors on the high prevalence of teenage pregnancy in a rural area of West Bengal. Methods: This was a cross sectional, observational study conducted at Nadia District Hospital, Krishnagar, West Bengal,India between 02/02/2013 and 02/08/2013 with a set of interview questionnaire and discussion with 309 teenage mothers selected by systemic random sampling technique in post natal ward. Results: 22.8% of total deliveries were teenage pregnancy. Cause of teenage pregnancy was early marriage. In 92.34% cases marriage was arranged by parents. In 68.93% cases the decision of early marriage was taken by their parents due to poverty; 71.52% due to social pressure and 46.27% due to large family size. Of all teenage mothers, 70.2% were aware of contraceptive method, but 76.69% of teenage mothers chose to be pregnant soon after marriage due to social pressure. Unlike developed countries all teenage pregnancies were socially accepted and have got familial and social support. Conclusion: To reduce the number of teenage pregnancy and its complication improvement of socioeconomic conditions and implementation of legal age of marriage is important.
KEYWORDS: Teenage pregnancy; Socio-economic factors; influence; West Bengal.
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Nandi JK,Burman SK,Das D,Saha DP,Pal S. Socio-cultural factors influencing teenage pregnancy in rural West Bengal,India. J Pharm Biomed Sci 2014;04(08):670-673. Available at www.jpbms.info
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