Editorial

Dr. Venkita S. Suresh

Group Medical Director, Kauvery Hospitals, India

Dear Colleagues

Our nightingales have become bolder in the 22^nd September edition of the NIGHTINGALE.

Jenma Rakkini, Cecily Ruba and Mahalakshmi from Trichy Cantonment have confronted the formidable Bukholderia Pseudomallei and report on a heartbreaking outcome with a patient with Meliodosis. Our critical care team is in the process of collecting Kauvery Data on this spectre.

Yashoda and Meena from Salem tackle a Surg GE – HPB challenge- Type IVa Choledochal Cyst.

An accidentally ingested foreign body in a young boy, that led to bronchiectasis and hemoptysis, admitted in Maa Kauvery and operated at Heart City, comes from Revathi, Pushpa and Hepsi Shalini, who are seasoned nurses at Heart City.

Self – harm by poisoning oneself with Agrochemicals is not common in the older patient. Sivagami from Salem presents to us a patient who survived OPC poisoning.

Kanumoori Angelin, Physician Assistant and Dr .Preethi, Medical Oncologist, from Alwarpet bring Oncology back to Nightingale with Rosai -Dorfman disease.

Poornima and Mercy from Hosur catch a bull by its horns and describe how it stabbed a man on his neck!

Lucy from Tennur gives us the highlights of the CNE on Crtical Care Nursing.

Rehabilitation finds a spokes man in Yuvaraj from Salem who writes on Trapezitis.

Sneha meticulously records the milestones successfully negotiated on Kauvery Trichy Hospitals journey on the 5S Model Hospital trajectory.

The Business Excellence team from Chennai presents their Triumphant journey to 5S sustenance level I.

Four poets- Balasubramani from Salem, Vasanth from Trichy and Mechael Merlin from Tennur, Justial Hency from Vadapalani render their poems to put this issue to sleep with Nightingale notes!

Dr. Venkita S. Suresh

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