Dr. Venkita S. Suresh

Group Medical Director, Kauvery Hospitals, India

Dear Readers,

The NIGHTINGALES now take on loftier issues to discuss

Roopa and Anbarasi, Charge Nurse and Senior Nurse Educator respectively at Alwarpet, present their management of Myelodysplastic Syndrome , with  a salutary outcome.

Jenifer, again from Alwarpet, is neck to neck with her colleagues, crisply presenting Thrombotic Microangiopathy and Renal Cortical Necrosis in a post partum patient .

Alwarpet also proudly presents a rising star in nursing!

Anandhi Sathyakumar, Nursing Director, graciously presents

Jeril Jolly who was recognized for her achievements as a young health care professional under age 30, at the BM Health Care event at New Delhi.

UmaMaheswari, Ruby, Gayathri and Sonya Mercy Anbu, all stalwart nurses from maa kauvery, Trichy, project yet another challenging presentation, of SLE in a 6 yrs aged child.

Ramesh and Komathy, devoted to ER Nursing at Hosur, report on the successful outcome of CPR in 49 yrs aged lady who had In – Hospital Cardiac Arrest.

Also from Hosur comes a very topical case report on GBS, a dramatic disease that rocked Pune quite recently.

Subin, Nursing Supervisor, presents their successful management of a middle aged man with GBS.

Three Physiciam Assts now make their mark here!

Meenatchi, Physician Asst at Specialty Hospital, Trichy is an accomplished author. She presents impressive work from the Gastro Enterology Dept on- ” Radiation Free ERCP in Pregnancy”.

Rengaraj, also Physician Asst at Neurosurgery at Trichy, is a familiar author to you. He reports on Sovateltide in Acute Ischemic Stroke.

Mahalakshmi, a Physician Asst at Specialty, Trichy, is a promising young author, and features a patient who arrived from Africa with severe Malaria.

Krishnamoorthy, Clinical Pharmacist at Trichy, makes his farewell publication by highlighting the clinical significance of Pulmonary Function Tests, an unfamiliar area to most.

Esther, Nursing Superintendent at Heart City, Trichy and her intrepid colleagues broke the glass ceiling with their all Nurse- Led CNE on Cardiac Arrhythmias. She and Revathy, Nursing Leader at the ER, rapidly review the key lessons from the session. We shall soon publish the entire proceedings, as a “landmark event” in nursing education in a corporate hospital in India.

We have a growing family of prolific poets. Balasubramani, Justal and Vasanth sing the issue to a close.

Do sing with the NIGHTINGALES

Kauvery Hospital