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Heart
Transplant: Hope for the weak hearted
While Asian Heart Institute and Max Healthcare
are foraying into heart transplantation, scurrying
for donor hearts, whopping cost of transplant
surgery and recurring cost of immunosuppressant
drugs continue to thwart heart transplant programme
in hospitals, reports Rita Dutta
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‘Popularity
of PET-CT depends on its pricing and indigenisation’
Dr Atul Marwah is currently working as chief of
department of nuclear medicine and Positron Emission
Tomography (PET) at Bombay Hospital, Mumbai. A
post-graduate in nuclear medicine from All India
Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi,
Dr Marwah holds the distinction of being one of
the two doctors in the country to have secured
a Diplomate Certification Board of Nuclear Cardiology
(US). In an interview with Shardul Nautiyal, Dr
Marwah points out that the modality of PET-CT
needs to be popularised aggressively among the
medical fraternity and masses to expedite its
growth.
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Human
Right Approach; A paradigm shift in understanding
health
Diabetic
retinopathy hamstrung by expensive treatment,
few training centres
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‘Insertable
loop recorder is a mini doctor with the patient’
‘In
coil embolisation, there is complete control over
the amount of infarct
Mumbai
gets another multispecialty hospital
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Medication
error reporting through prescription auditing
Bringing information on patterns of existing practice
together with information on appropriate practice
is an essential component of efforts to improve
healthcare. This is possible only when each and
every prescription in the hospital is audited
by a prescription auditing team.
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Products
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Bridging
the time difference between countries in teleradiology
Late one night in the summer of 2003, a patient
was wheeled into the emergency room (ER) at a
hospital in Connecticut, complaining of severe
right-sided abdominal pain. The patient, a middle
aged male, was examined by the emergency room
physician, who based on his examination, felt
that the patient most likely had a kidney stone.
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