Editorial

Dr. Venkita S. Suresh

Group Medical Director, Kauvery Hospitals, India

Dear Colleagues

The Nightingales begin with a stunning overture -” When the Banding Breaks, New Paths Awaken: the BRTO Revolution” sung by Leema Rebekkal Rosy and Kasthuri, who are ANS and NIC respectively, from Tennur!.

It is time to smile. “Smile therapy” comes from Sasirega from MRD, Salem! A debut author!

Hosur encore! “Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Thermal Burns” comes from Mary Shaila and Loganayaki.

“Deep Brain Stimulation at Alwarpet, for Parkinson’s, is reported by Anandhi. Roselin, Stella and Jose Lincy from Alwarpet.

The same team also surprises you with “Zieve Syndrome”!

Acute PE is always dramatic, consequential, and challenging. Subhadra, Cecily Ruby and Mahalakshmi ably report from Specialty Hospital, Trichy Cantonment on its recognition and management.

Mercy, Priyadharshini and Bindiya Sophi from Heart City bring you the first and spectacularly colorful Radio Nuclide Scintiscan images shot by a Gamma Camera, exploring coronary microcirculation and myocardial perfusion.

Mahalakshmi, Regional level clinical dietician, also from Heart City, brings you an intriguing paper on Ketogenic Diet in Epilepsy.

Clinical Dietician Rajeswari from Salem writes on Dietary Management in Carcinoma Buccal Mucosa.

Physician Assistant Mahendrasamy from the Department of Neurosurgery, Kauvery Cantonment Hospital, debuts on this issue with Surgical Decompression of a malignant MCA infarct in the Brain.

Intern in Clinical Pharmacy at Kauvery Hospitals Trichy, Siranjeevi and Rubesh writes on Tamil Nadu‘s favourite common garden poisoning, with Oduvanthalai- Cleistanthus Collinus.

Clinical Pharmacists who intern at our Trichy Hospitals are briskly stepping into the world of effective medical communication.

Sujata Mali, Patient Care Assistant from Hosur, charms you with her heartfelt epistle on her maiden take-off as a Flying Angel.

Cecily Ruba, Nurse Educator at KCN, and Mahalakshmi, NS, take on the baton from Lucy and review the papers presented at the Second CNE this season. Esther and Co from Heart City are all set to launch the 3^rd CNE of the season from Trichy.

Business Excellence and Salem unit together, led by their able leaders and enthusiastically driven by their teams, report on Salem’s 5S Journey to become the First Ever Model Hospital.

Our resident poet Bala, from Salem, draws the curtain down on the issue by sharing a secret, poetically, about quality of mind and success.

Sing and succeed with the Kauvery Nightingales.

Dr. Venkita S. Suresh

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