EDITORIAL

Dr. Venkita S Suresh

Group Medical Director, Kauvery Hospitals, India

Dear Colleagues,

The NIGHTINGALE,” s first issue for the New Year shall reach you on 22 Jan 24.

The remarkable features of the edition are the strident, exuberant, enthusiastic and committed notes that come wafting through the air from its authors.

Shanthi K, Nursing Supervisor, Kauvery, Trichy Cantonment writes about My patient who went to Africa for work stayed there for 3 months and came back to India with Cerebral Malaria!

Sathyapriya, Clinical Pharmacist from Kauvery ECB writes on Cefepime – Tazobactum -induced fluid – filled blisters.This adverse reaction, occurring following Cefepime injection, is rare. It is a fourth generation cephalosporin with a unique chemical structure that may contribute to distinct adverse reactions.

Suganya.S and Mahalakshmi, from Tennur comprehensively and competently review Blood Transfusion Reactions’ and conclude stating that Blood transfusion is safer today than it previously was due to the measures practiced to improve the quality of blood supply and to reduce the risk of transfusion-transmitted diseases.

Mahendran and Ananth Kumar from HAMSA catch the bull of Japanese B Encephalitis by its horns through their Rehabilitative approach-based management for Children with Japanese Encephalitis.

Mahalakshmi Murugesan, Sr. Dietician from Trichy, gently warns you about the sinister sugar that hides in your food that tips you over into Diabetes, and guides you in knowing the glycemic index of the foods you consume through The effect of nutritional composition on the Glycemic index and Glycemic load values.

The most exuberant paper of this issue comes from the Quality conquerors of most recent times, mentored by Mr.Dhanasekar Sundaramoorthy , AGM, Group Head of Business Development and Ms. Anandhi Sathiya Kumar, Nursing Director, Kauvery Alwarpet.

Led by Ms. A J Deepa M and fielding Stella Towncent, Ms. Granaph, Ms. Bhagavathy, and Ms. Kanimozhi, their team Pratidhi”, (Sanskrit for “hope”), won the prestigious Rhodium award at the recent ABK AOTS, National QC Convention in Pune, a testament to their dedication and the significant impact their project that tackled the critical issue of chemotherapy extravasation that made oncology care safer at KCH.

The paper carries their effervescent excitement: Bhagavathy says My heart still leaps at the memory of that flight to Pune. Not just because it was my first flight experience, but because it carried me towards something even more exhilarating – presenting our oncology department’s award-winning QC project on a national stage.

From the Chief Editor’s desk comes the Journal Scan”, featuring summaries on Advances in Clinical Pharmacology that were published by Elsevier in its January 2024 issue of Medicine”.

Our court poet Balasubramaniam from Salem pens yet another tribute to Tamil Thai.

The NIGHTINGALE projects such Kauvery Commitment to the cyberspace, stratosphere and beyond.

Do sing with the Nightingales!

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