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Monday, September 10, 2012

INDIAN GUIDELINES FOR DAIGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT OF CAP AND HAP

GUIDELINE FOR DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT OF COMMUNITY AND HOSPITAL ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA IN ADULT: JOINT ICS AND NCCP(I) RECOMMENDATIONS

The full guideline is available from the following link or lung india web site

http://www.lungindia.com/temp/LungIndia29627-8180843_224328.pdf

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

SLEEP APNEA PHEONTYPES....

It has been observed that all patients of OSA are not same. The response to therapy is variable and it has been seen in studies that different pathological mechanism exist that lead to OSA.
the possible pathological phenotype of sleep apnea which may lead future treatment are-
1. Upper air way anatomy
2. Upper air way motor control
3. Ventilatory control stability
4, Lung volumes
5. Arousal threshold

Thursday, March 29, 2012

RESPIRATORY UPDATE 2012 GUWAHATI

WE ARE GOING TO ORGANIZE A RESPIRATORY UPDATE IN GUWAHATI ON 6TH MAY 2012

Sunday, January 15, 2012

HIGH INTENSITY NON INVASIVE VENTILATION


High intensity NPPV is a new strategy aim at maximal improvement in gas exchange in COPD patients with chronic hypercapnic respiratory failure by increasing ventilator setting to the individually tolerated maximum if necessary or to the level necessary to achieve normocapnia.

In contrast to conventional NPPV in high intensity NPPV an IPAP (Inspiratory positive airway pressure) is set in between 20-40 cm of H2O initially in hospital setting and later at home. The randomised controlled trail has shown that high intensity NPPV cause several benefit. Compare to conventional strategy it showed-
  • Improved gas exchange
  • Improvement in breathing pattern and lung function
  • Improvement in inspiratory muscle strength
  • Increase haematocrit in anemic COPD and decrease haematocrit in polycythemic COPD
  • Improvement in dyspnea, quality of life and walking distance.

Sunday, January 1, 2012

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012

WISH U ALL A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS 2012

Thursday, December 22, 2011

BLOG UPDATE- THANKS TO ALL VISITORS

MY BLOG HAS BEEN VISITED BY > 17,000 INDIVIDUALS AROUND THE WORLD FROM 101 COUNTRIES...OVER LAST 2 YEARS..............THANKS TO ALL VISITORS.................WILL UPDATE REGULARLY..NEED MORE COMMENT TO DEVELOP FURTHER............................

Saturday, November 12, 2011

november 16th is to be celebrated as world COPD day


we are doing a free spirometry camp and public awarness


for doctor we are doing a spirometry workshop

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Monday, November 7, 2011

A TRIBUTE TO GREAT DR BHUPEN HAZARIKA

GREAT MUSICIAN OF ASSAM DR BHUPEN HAZARIKA IS TO BE CREMATED TODAY.......... HIS CONTRIBUTION TO THE MUSIC WILL BE REMEMBERED BY THE WORLD FOR EVER...........
.SAGAR SANGAMOT KATANA SATURILU..... TOTHAPI TO HUWA NAI KLANTA............

Thursday, October 13, 2011

WORLD SPIROMETRY DAY 14TH OCTOBER 2011

14TH OCTOBER 2011 IS WORLD SPIROMETRY DAY. ITS A TIME TO INCREASE KNOWLEDGE AND AWARENESS ON USE OF SPIROMETRY.... 

Saturday, October 1, 2011

New TNM staging for lung cancer

New 7th edition of TNM classification lung cancer is based on International Association for the Study of
Lung Cancer (IASLC) database. The changes from previous edition are mentioned bellow. for more detail follow ERS journal (breathe ,June 2011)

The changes in relation to T (tumor) are-
1. T1a <2cm                                                                                                prev T1
2.T1b> 2-3cm                                                                                                     T1
3. T2a>3-5cm                                                                                                     T2
4.T2b >5-7 cm                                                                                                    T2
5. T3 >7cm                                                                                                          T2
6. Additional tumor node in same lobe T3                                                             T4
7. Add tumor node in another ipsilateral lobe T4                                                   M
8. Pleural inv M1a                                                                                                T4
9. Intra thoracic metastasis M1 and extrathoracic metastasis M2                           M

N remained unchanged , however nodal zone has been changed

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