Editorial

Dr. Venkita S. Suresh

Group Medical Director, Kauvery Hospitals, India

Dear colleagues,

The 08 Nov 24 edition of the KAUVERIAN continues its mission to publish your original work, which is the record of your service that was rendered to your patients, with care, compassion and competence.

We open with two clinical audits.

Dr. Muralidhasan and colleagues from Dept of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Trichy, bring you their clinical audit on Microvascular Free Flaps.

Dr. P .Gowri, our champion for alleviating Diabetes Distress at Trichy, presents her second audit, on Diabetes Self Management Education Program.

We bring you two intrepid surgeries next.

Dr.TG Prabhakar brings you from Nellai” Surgical reconstruction of Acromio Clavicular dislocation using double endobutton “.

Dr .Arunagiri and colleagues from Dept of Vascular Surgery, Trichy, publish their “Complex Iliac Artery and venous reconstruction” in a patient who sustained polytrauma.

We next present the gist of two Kauvery Post Graduate Lectures.

Dr. Karthik Raman, Cardiothoracic Surgeon at Heart City, a seasoned investigator, gives us a lucid instruction on the ‘Basics of Statistics.’

Dr. Surender Sambath, HoD, Em Med, Marathahalli, takes on a dramatic disease which is invariably 100 % fatal- Rabies, and updates us on how to prevent death 100 %!

Two case reports come from PGs at Hosur!

Drs Nithya and Gowsalya, guided by their mentors Drs Gayathri and Harish Kamath, report on Lateral Medullary Syndrome.

Dr. Monisha, mentored by Dr.Gayathri highlights Post Partum Ischemic Stroke.

We have two senior consultants making cameo apperances!

On our request, Dr. Harish.Mallapura Maheshwarappa consented to flash his ultra short case report on “Proning saves lives”.

Dr. Ranganathan Jothi, neurosurgeon, Vadapalani, debuts in the KAUVERIAN with a with video demo of his challenging case of recurrent craniopharyngioma with supra and infratemporal cysts and hydrocephalus

Continuing our quest to publish proceedings of Kauvery CMEs, Dr. Deep Chand Raja, Interventional Cardiologist who leads our Electrophysiology Lab at Chennai Alwarpet, has Sharon Jebamalar and Selvamaheswari from his team giving us the highlights from their ” Update on Atrial Fibrillation”.

Mahendran, consultant pediatric occupational therapist, our prolific writer, who is prodigal in his statistical analysis, writes on “Investigating the role of Activity Based Configurational Development approach in managing Mitochondrial Leukodystrophy in children”

Our regular features – chapters from books of Dr. Vasanthi Vidyasaran and Dr. Yeshwanth, Journal Club and the poem from Balasubramani, Salem, – draw the curtain down on this Monsoon Issue of the KAUVERIAN.

Do read; write for the KAUVERIAN, which is an accredited and indexed journal.

Dr. Venkita S. Suresh

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