Editorial

Dr. Venkita S. Suresh

Group Medical Director, Kauvery Hospitals, India

Dear readers,

The NIGHTINGALE, 22 Nov 24 edition, opens with a deeply emotional first-person account of recovery from acute trauma from an RTA. Gayathri writes with impeccable clarity on her survival from an accident, saved and salvaged by the Kauvery family at Trichy.

Suganya, Sowmya, Jaya Menon and Lucy Grace from Trichy remind us that Hansen”s is very much with us; the biblical disease blights the life of a bright young nurse , just leaving her teens.

The Internal Mammary Artery was destined to save the heart. Pushpa and Yuvasri from Heart City write about LIMA and RIMA together revascularising a 39 yrs aged man” s heart who had critical double vessel disease.

Prabakaran and his cathlab colleagues at Nellai write excitedly about how the team saved a 23 yrs aged woman from life threatening pulmonary embolism by a bold delivery of a thrombolytic directly into the pulmonary artery.

When Methotrexate shuts down bone marrow the resultant pancytopenia is life threatening. Christine Rajathy, Cecily Ruba and Mahalakshmi from Trichy write with a heavy heart on the stormy course of the disease in a 58 yrs aged woman.

Rengaraj is an emerging Physician Asst author at Trichy. He vividly describes the neurosurgical management of a brain abscess in a young woman with complex congenital heart disease .

The NIGHTINGALE is delighted to publish three Clinical Pharmacy Interns at Trichy, for the first time in Kauvery. Siranjeevi and Rubeswaran report a study on Typhoid. Johnson writes on Therapeutic Drug monitoring.

NIGHTINGALE is again delighted to publish two Echo technicians from Heart City:

Iswarya images Mitral Valve Replacement and Logeswari beams light on Cardiac Myxoma.

Jenifer Theresa, Clinical Dietician from Trichy, highlights ‘Harmful effects of preservatives on food items’.

Cecily Ruba, Nurse Educator, returns with her sweeping review of the proceedings of the CNE on Critical Care Nursing.

Two poets, Swetha and Balasubramani from Salem, sing down the curtain on the issue .

Do sing with the Nightingales

Editorial

Editorial

Dr. Venkita S. Suresh

Nightingale Journals