Flu vaccine that protects against all types of flu #IPromisetoStopFlu

By Dr.Amrita Basu(MBBS,MS) on November 5, 2019 20

When I moved to a new place of work almost six years back, I was not aware that seasonal cold and cough would be an everyday thing. But with a ten-month-old, you come to know such things soon. When my daughter was not a pre-schooler, it was easier to protect her from this. We just stayed at home during colder weather or bundled her up and got from home to car in record time.

Night travel or visits to relatives’ places were strictly curtailed. This caused some restrictions but was better than managing the sniffles and the problem of the entire family catching the flu.

FLU-VACCINE-Protects against 4 types of Flu virus

It’s rightly said that motherhood gives us more insight than any other life experience and that’s when I started looking for more options than staying at home for protection. A family friend’s child getting admitted with flu in a hospital made us very worried. The child hardly left home, and her caregivers were the house help and my friend’s in-laws. Soon we heard the helper was suffering too

Our mind was made up. We could hardly prevent socialization for the child or us. The problem is people are infectious from a few days before and up to five to seven days after they are themselves ill. This makes the virus spread quickly. But we needed more than personal hand and cough hygiene.

We needed complete protection against all types of influenza which endangers us. As a doctor, I know about how the influenza virus constantly mutates and has changed its antigenic character regularly. So, the Quadrivalent influenza vaccine that protects against 4 types of flu viruses, was on our minds.

What is flu or Influenza?

Influenza is a virus causing a broad spectrum of upper respiratory and lower respiratory infections. There are different varieties which affect humans and different species. It’s communicable and spreads by cough droplets while sneezing and talking, that is both nasal and oral secretions.[1]

What are the different types of flu?

There are A, B, C, D types of Influenza virus. Most of the infections are species-specific, but the problem is they can change their transmissibility and have caused epidemics and pandemics.

What are the common flu symptoms?

High-grade fever with chills and rigor is common. But cough, rhinitis, headache, weakness, sore throat, respiratory problems, can all occur.

What does the flu vaccine do?

The flu vaccine protects against 4 types of flu viruses circulating in India. It’s a quadrivalent vaccine. [3]

Can you get flu twice?

It’s unlikely that you will get infected with the exact same genetic type of flu virus, but infection with the other types is possible. The flu virus is smart and keeps changing itself. So we get ourselves the flu shot every year. It is because prevention through vaccination is the best way to keep away flu.

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3.https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/quadrivalent.htm?CDC_AA_refVal=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cdc.gov%2Fflu%2Fprotect%2Fvaccine%2Fquadrivalent.htm

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK459363/

2. https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/health/swine-flu-virus-changing-seasonality-geography-639921)

How to choose Meningococcal meningitis vaccination: When does your child need it? #TogetherAgainstMeningitis

By Dr.Amrita Basu(MBBS,MS) on October 22, 2019 55

How do you choose Meningococcal meningitis vaccination? When does your child need it?If these are questions that have worried you then read on.

Meningitis is a scary disease and Meningococcal meningitis is the bad boy of all meningitis. But unlike in movies when the hero can save you every time, Meningococcal meningitis behaves like Thanos of Avengers Infinity War. It has a destructive course. As a parent and doctor, protection with a vaccine is my way of prevention and I recommend this course of action to every parent so that this dangerous disease is kept at bay.

Meningococcal meningitis can kill

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Invasive Meningococcal Disease (IMD) is a rare but potentially devastating bacterial infection. Despite advances in medical care, the disease can kill in a matter of hours!⁽⁷⁾ One strain is known to cause horrific disability and mortality in up to 50% cases.

As mothers know, when children start playschool or nursery school, the chances of getting infected are higher. Even in other age groups, overcrowding increases the chances of infection. If someone in the household is infected or is a carrier, it puts other members of the family at risk.

Since you cannot avoid places or situations, the best way to protect against deadly diseases is a vaccination.^(1,4,5)

Apart from that, you can also look out for the symptoms of Meningococcal meningitis, which are similar to the common cold and hence easily dismissed by parents. What are these symptoms? Fever, headache, stiff neck, nausea, and confusion.⁽⁶⁾

I know the above sounds scary but when we became parents, scary was something that came with the bundle of joy. The point of this is not to scare you but to make you aware.

Start early and give your child Meningococcal meningitis vaccine

First and foremost, I must stress to all parents that Meningococcal meningitis is a serious infection with a very high mortality rate, hence the need to protect against it is greater.

I know there have been talks about the efficacy of vaccines but they are here for our protection and they help us to fight deadly diseases. And I say this as a mother and a doctor, if protection is available, I will take that option and tell my patients the same.

To protect against Meningococcal disease I tell my patients and parents to vaccinate children as young as 9 months old. Talk to your pediatrician and schedule a vaccination.⁽⁴^,⁵⁾

Vaccines are good

In our quest for a healthy and safe upbringing for our children, we need to stay alert. I tell all parents to be armed with the correct information about fever, cold and everything in between and not to fall prey to rumors and gossip.

We will do anything to protect our children from harm and getting them vaccinated against deadly diseases is the right step towards that goal.

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References:

1) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Prevention and Control of Meningococcal Disease. Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). MMWR Recomm Rep. 2005;54:1-21.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/mening/public/index.html

2) 2. Granoff DM, Harrison D, Borrow R. Meningococcal Vaccines. In: Plotkin SA, Orenstein WA, Offit PA, editors. Vaccines. 5th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders Elsevier; 2008. p. 399-434.

3. Pelton SI, Gilmet GP. Expanding prevention of invasive meningococcal disease. Expert Rev Vaccines. 2009; 8:717-27.

4) Safety and Immunogenicity of a Quadrivalent Meningococcal Conjugate Vaccine (MenACYW-DT): A Multicenter, Open-label, Non-randomized, Phase III Clinical Trial

*Sangeeta Yadav, #MV Manglani, $DH Ashwath Narayan, #S Sharma, $HS Ravish, ^R Arora, ‡V Bosch Castells, *S Arya, and ‡P Oste

https://www.indianpediatrics.net/june2014/june-451-456.htm

5) CDC. Meningococcal disease – Medical conditions risk factors. Accessed February 2019.

https://www.cdc.gov/meningococcal/about/risk-medical.html

6) 4. Sinclair D, Preziosi MP, Jacob John T, Greenwood B. The epidemiology of meningococcal disease in India. Trop Med Int Health. 2010;15:1421-35.

7) Mechanism of meningeal invasion by Neisseria meningitidis

Mathieu Coureuil, 1, 2 Olivier Join-Lambert, 1, 2, 3 Hervé Lécuyer, 1, 2, 3 Sandrine Bourdoulous, 2, 4, 5 Stefano Marullo, 2, 4, 5 and Xavier Nassif 1

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3396695/

8) https://www.indianpediatrics.net/dec2013/dec-1095-1108.htm

9.Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics

World Heart Day: How can you save someone during a cardiac arrest? #SaveHeartSaveLife

By Dr.Amrita Basu(MBBS,MS) on September 29, 2019 28

On World Heart Day I wanted to talk to you about how you can save someone during a cardiac arrest.

Two years back, a very close relative suddenly died after a sudden cardiac arrest. While life and death happen when they happen, unexpected events leave us feeling distraught and searching for answers.

Even though cardiovascular events are responsible for leading cause of noncommunicable death, most people are not aware of basic Cardiopulmonary resuscitation. In India, many public facilities lack adequate preparedness as first responders.

What is a Sudden cardiac arrest?

A sudden cardiac arrest is an event where the heart stops pumping blood, which may be reversible on prompt action. However, it will invariably lead to death in case of lack of timely effort (Harrison).

Stats to keep in mind

Approximately 7 lakh people succumb to Sudden cardiac arrest every year in India. SCA leads as the cause of death globally, and Indians with sedentary habits are at an even higher risk

Shocking case reports

A young 22 yr old, promising RJ of one of the leading radio stations in India, died within minutes of suffering an SCA while live on-air, in Nagpur.

In 2008, a 12-year-old Delhi student collapsed and died due to cardiac arrest on her school’s football field.

At 27 a Punjabi pilgrim died of massive cardiac arrest at Amarnath.

How to recognize Sudden cardiac arrest symptoms?

A person who collapses, is unconscious and unresponsive, is not breathing and the pulse or heartbeat can’t be felt – has likely suffered a sudden cardiac arrest. It may often be massive with little or no warning symptoms.

How to save someone during a sudden cardiac arrest out of a hospital?

If you witnessed or suspected someone to be suffering from a sudden cardiac arrest.

Call the emergency ambulance number immediately on mobile phone with speaker mode on.

What is the emergency ambulance number in India? It’s 108.

Its 911 in the USA.

Keep the mobile phone in speaker mode so that you can start CPR while calling for help. Two people can be more useful than one in this case,

Avoid crowding the person

The airway should be adequate. Tilt head up and lift the chin. You want oxygen to enter.

Start CPR or basic life support as quickly as possible.

Ask someone to grab an AED nearby while you continue CPR. The moment you get the AED, switch it on and let the machine guide you in its calm voice through the process of defibrillation. The AED or Automated External Defibrillator is the one and only definite solution to save a life in case of cardiac arrest. AEDs like the Philips HeartStart are extremely simple to operate that anyone with little or no prior knowledge or training has the power to save a life with this.

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What are the CPR steps?

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Put your palm on the chest of the person. Then place your hand at the junction of the middle and lower third of the sternum. Then place heel of upper hand on the dorsum of the lower and lock the fingers. The sternum should be depressed 4-5 cm for every chest compression(push down on the chest). The arms should remain straight out during the entire process of chest compression. Give 100 chest compressions per minute.

What is automated defibrillation & how is it done?

Automated defibrillation is a process of giving an electric shock to the heart which has stopped, using a machine to restore the heart to a normal rhythm. The device is called Automated external defibrillator.

Why do Sudden Cardiac arrests occur?

Most cases of sudden cardiac arrests happen due to ventricular tachycardia or Ventricular fibrillation, both of which are an electrical malfunction of the heart. It may or may not be due to pre-existing heart disease, or not. However, sudden cardiac arrest is a warning.

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Remember, all the while during the cardiac arrest the person’s heart is not beating properly, and there is no blood or oxygen flowing to the brain and other parts of the body. Best chances of recovery are within 3 minutes. After 5 minutes, the chances of neurological damages increase, and beyond 8 minutes, the possibility of coming back to life is minimal.

How can communities come forward to prevent death from sudden cardiac arrest?

Organize basic life support training workshops for adults and children so that anyone available can start CPR.

Spread awareness about healthy lifestyle practices to live better.

Residential complexes, sports and activity complexes, schools, colleges, and all public spaces with first aid facility can help save lives by having AEDs available.

Effective CPR can help buy some time, but electronically resetting the heart using AED is the only definitive way to bring it back to life. Without access to AEDs in public areas, it is almost impossible to prevent fatal neurological damage if cardiac arrest occurs outside the hospital

While primordial prevention and primary prevention are essential to focus its necessary for all health facilities, public spaces, bystanders and emergency first responders to be prepared.

Takeaway:

Live life healthy, get basic life support training & stay well equipped to save someone’s life. That’s someone could be your friend, family, loved ones too. You have the power to be a Heart Hero!

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COPD Symptoms, Risks, Treatment, Hard Stats!

By Dr.Amrita Basu(MBBS,MS) on September 10, 2019 143

COPD or Chronic Obstructive pulmonary disease as defined by GOLD[1], is a disease which is characterized by significant restriction of airflow in the lungs and is not fully reversible.

It includes emphysema, Chronic bronchitis with chronic airflow obstruction and small airway diseases with chronic obstruction. The entire spectrum of disease can have several similarities with the severity and extent of symptoms often varying. COPD causes you to gasp for air.

Adequate oxygen cannot enter, while secretions trapped inside airways cannot come, out creating a vicious cycle of disease, progressively destroying the quality of life.

Symptoms of COPD

The smokers cough is often classical. Coughing, shortness of breath, breathlessness, wheezing, noisy respiration, gasping for air with increase trouble with air pollution, difficulty carrying on with daily activities are all common. Often a chest infection can precipitate acute symptoms. That is how Chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases(COPD) frequently presents in the ER. The sad part is that many do not get diagnosed until the advanced stages. With each smoke, every breath, you take, it becomes a little more painful.

What happens in COPD?

The airway mucosa is already sensitized to the allergens like cigarette smoke, dust particles and starts secreting fluids. The more they secrete mucus, the more blocked the rest of the airway becomes. The chemicals secreted then causes the small bronchiolar muscles to constrict. The entire process narrows the airway and causes the excess secretions to remain trapped inside. Your lungs, which should have air, is now filled with sticky fluid or mucus, which gets more viscous and more difficult to extrude with time. They also weigh down the alveoli and can make them collapse.

What are the Risk factors of COPD

Chronic smoking

The numbers of cigarettes per day, duration of smoking life, age of first puff are all critical. Passive and second-hand smoking exposure, even in utero reduces lung growth significantly and significant postnatal pulmonary function. Stopping smoking is a must in all cases!

Airway responsiveness

Environmental pollutants, both indoor and outdoor, have a role to play. Indoor air pollution associated with biomass used as fuel for cooking causes COPD more commonly in women in rural India, urban slums, and the Government’s Ujwala Yojna is helping fight this.

Airway hyperresponsiveness, excessive broncho constrictions, and the Dutch theory: Asthma, chronic bronchitis, and emphysema are influenced by environment and genetics, and all have hypersensitive airways as one of the significant factors.

What are the stats to support the killing potential of COPD?

COPD is the third most serious cause of death after heart disease and cancer.
Women are two times more at risk of being diagnosed with chronic bronchitis.
Women are also more likely to be diagnosed with emphysema than men. [2]
The healthcare cost of COPD is as much as $50 billion in the US [2],[3].
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) affects 251 million lives globally.
15 million deaths annually are related to COPD.
Greater than 90% of COPD-related deaths occur in low and middle-income countries.
Three out of the five leading causes of deaths in India are lifestyle or noncommunicable diseases. COPD is the second biggest cause of death in that group [3]

Treatment of COPD

The main prongs of treatment are:

Smoking cessation Nonnegotiable

Oxygen therapy In chronically hypoxaemic patients influences the natural history of the disease in COPD. Nowadays, there are compact and portable oxygen machines which help in delivering oxygen and maintain a good quality of life.

Medicines and other therapy is aimed at improving the quality of life by reducing symptoms and decreasing the number and severity of acute exacerbations. They range from bronchodilators, anticholinergic agents B2 agonists, inhaled and parenteral glucocorticoids

For mild to moderate COPD to manage acute exacerbations inhaled glucocorticoids help to reduce the severity, duration, and frequency of such attacks. There are several user-friendly inhalers and nebulizers for personal use, which are discreet and portable.

Severe to very severe COPD may need the help of portable oxygen delivery devices to help you maintain your daily activity. SimplyGo and SimplyGo Mini help with precisely that.

Mechanical ventilation

Noninvasive positive pressure ventilation can save lives. Patient selection needs to be carefully done. Invasive in a hospital setting

Role of Surgery: Lung surgery in a very select group of people.

Pulmonary rehabilitation for COPD

COPD causes daily activities to become challenging. While medicines play their role, you can do a lot through lifestyle interventions to improve lung function and prevent further deterioration. This is multidimensional and needs, breathing exercises, nutrition, meditation and the right frame of mind to work. The changes are well documented and consistent over a longer duration. Pulmonary rehabilitation helps reduce respiratory distress, fatigue and improves the emotional state of patients. It also enhances the sense of control you feel over the disease condition and increases the feeling of wellbeing.

It would help if you stopped tobacco smoking now!
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Lifestyle tips for those with COPD

Individual health choices and lifestyle changes are essential consistently.It would help if you stopped tobacco smoking now.No cigarette, bidi, hookah, or cigar. Tobacco smoke of any kind is not your good friend. Smoking doesn’t work with a disclaimer. Once you get hooked, the damage is done.

There is no back button once permanent damage occurs. Addictions are often genetically hardwired, and the child of a smoker is not only passively inhaling cigarette smoke but is also getting addicted at the same time. You can fight this, but you need to start now.

The government and community must come forward to stop cigarette smoking. We also need to make the world greener to decrease pollution for reducing the allergen load.

What can you do if you suspect you have COPD?

Get checked up and diagnosed on time. Your doctor will ask several questions and examine you. A chest Xray, Pulmonary function test is the first step, and often a High resolution computed tomography of the chest may be needed. CT scan is the definitive diagnostic tool for emphysema

Conclusion: What can you do today?

Reduce allergen load: Stop Smoking

Ensure healthy lifestyle and moderate exercise. Singing, Yoga swimming, all help improve pulmonary capacity and airflow. Take medicines after professional medical advice. Avoid self-medication and erratic medication schedule. Control dyspepsia and acidity, as it can be a trigger. Remember, your health is your wealth.

If you need the assistance of medical devices, don’t delay. Intervention on time is essential to prevent long term complications and quality of life issues.

Individuals need to be responsible for their health. Choosing a poison because it makes you feel good is not okay. Stricter action for selling tobacco-related products, higher taxes, punitive action for selling to underage needs to work at the ground level. The world is sharing the healthcare burden, but it’s you who is smoking who will gasp for air. To know more: 1800 258 7678 or log onto www.philips.co.in

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References :

GOLD
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/314991.php
https://juniperpublishers.com/ijoprs/pdf/IJOPRS.MS.ID.555599.pdf
Harrison’s textbook of Internal medicine

Car Safety India, Kids and Drivers

By Dr.Amrita Basu(MBBS,MS) on September 1, 2019 113

Car Safety in India, kids and drivers make a worrisome threesome!

Truly, what goes in your mind when you send your kids alone with drivers/chauffeurs to tuition, games etc.?

Don’t you worry all the time when your kids go to a friend’s place with the chauffeur?

What you usually do in such situations? More often than not, a family member accompanies the child, right?

But can you really go with your child everywhere? Game classes, friend’s home, library, activity classes, going everywhere with them can become more complicated when their schedule gets busier. But how will you make your child independent and still keep them safe? With cases of harassment, child molestations, assaults by domestic helps and drivers making the news, I worry as a parent. All the time!

Why just blame the drivers. There are cases when parents just did not know what actually happened in the car. When children grow up, they have different kinds of friends and peer pressure. How do you know they are safe? How do you know they are going where they are supposed to go? When your child has a friend with her or him in the car, you would want them to be safe, wouldn’t you?

My Chauffer Troubles

I am sure you don’t feel comfortable when you leave your car alone with chauffeurs for a long time?You don’t know what is happening with the car while you’re gone. Your favorite car might very well be getting used as a pickup taxi by the driver for a few extra bucks, while you are attending that important meeting or being used for joyrides and personal errands by the chauffeurs while you are attending that family function.

Basically, you just don’t know what is happening with your car behind your back.

For example, my car was parked, and some miscreant had thrown a big stone at the windshield cracking it. He was on a bike. No one could identify him. Another time we were traveling, and after returning home found our 3-month-old car’s gate dented and badly scratched. The driver mentioned a brush with a truck on the night he had dropped us off. That was his version with no way of us knowing what he said was true or not and raising doubts if it was safe to let him drive our child home from school. We changed our chauffeur. That was the only solution available. But I still worry.

When I travel with my daughter or send a family member to pick her up from school, I worry. Someday she may have to go alone in the car. How safe is she? While my new driver appears to be a responsible man, there’s no guarantee about other people and their driving negligence.

The temporary driver from the agency: Is the car safe?

Another temporary driver from the agency had substance abuse problems and fell asleep at the car park. He was supposed to take my mom to her friend’s place. I thank the higher powers, for saving my mom from traveling that day. I worry each time I have to hire a driver from the agency, and my mom travels alone. She visits her bhajan group and the temple, and it’s not always possible to go with her. How do I ensure her safety?

Car accidents and incidents of lousy behaviors on the road make me feel worried. While we can all strive to follow the rules and be responsible citizens, the problem is with many who don’t follow the rules. Chauffeurs, temporary or permanent, come with their baggage and are on their best behavior in front of you, but what happens when the young and elderly are alone with them?

Car safety for children and the Elderly

A few days back, I heard about a family being heckled all the way to a restaurant and back by a bike gang in Kolkata. Imagining such a scenario with the child alone gives me sleepless nights.

One good way is to understand the nature, conduct and driving habits of your driver. That’s an excellent idea for the long term, but what can you do daily to keep your children and elderly family members safe while traveling?

Can technology solve the problem?

While accompanying kids everywhere and every time is not a viable and oft-repeatable option and dropping the chauffeurs off entirely is not workable either for most working couples, there must be a way out.

I firmly believe that the way out is technology. Can there be a gadget that can do real-time video streaming and send mobile alerts? Can there be a solution that is temper-proof? Is there a way to get alerted if a stranger gets in the car?

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Blogging in India: Does Alexa rank even make sense?#MyFriendAlexa

By Dr.Amrita Basu(MBBS,MS) on August 14, 2019 0

Update Amazon’s Alexa rank disappeared and so did my friend Alexa blogging challenge .So right now theres no Alexa rank .On May 1, 2022, Amazon shut down Alexa Internet and subsequently discontinued Alexa Rank.

It’s time for MyfriendAlexa again. Oh if you don’t know what am I talking about, I will go back to when it all started. Back in 2016, I was pretty clueless. I read a lot of blogs and books but was living under a rock, when it came to the Indian Blogging scene. Then one day by Gods grace I had stumbled upon something called Half marathon by Blogchatter and also signed up for something called the MyFriendALexa!But this challenge has nothing to do with the Amazon Alexa devices. But it does have something to do with the Alexa rank of a blog.

Can you cheat the Alexa rank?

Content creators are forever trying to drive traffic to their blogs. Alexa claims to account for all controversial practices of skewering the rank. The better you get at fudging data, the better are their AI.

Why I participate in My Friend Alexa

It pushes me, inspires me and gets my writing inertia all pumped up. In all the years, I have participated in this challenge I have always learned something new. I have even written a book about blogging challenges including My friend Alexa.

3 Reasons I participate every year.

Number one

It’s serious fun. Serious because it’s not for the faint-hearted and definitely not for anyone who is blogging to relax. MFA is not going to help you relax! Know this beforehand so that you can avoid stressing later /Its very important to know what you want from your blogging journey. Personal satisfaction by writing and sharing has nothing to do with numbers but if you want to help people through your words then numbers help you know whether you are going in the right direction.

Number 2

Its great discipline to read and write regularly. You find a new readership for your blog. Blogchatter actively promotes the hashtag and your blog posts get a fresh set of eyes. The Blogchatter team is exceptional in its community-building effort and is easily one of the best around.

Number 3

The resources they share inside the FB group often has high profile experts giving super tips which are hard to get.

Number 4

Your Alexa rank becomes better and is a great boost to morale. The best part is when someone wants to work with and checking your Alexa its a good way of knowing what kind of traffic numbers you have. It’s also a great way of knowing a little about the blog you are reading.

Does ALexa rank make sense? — Blogging in India

For this, you do need the Alexa toolbar installed on your browser though. If you writing good content, optimizing them and promoting your blogs posts your Alexa will already bye good. But we all have scope for improvement, right? Its always good to have different stats for comparison.

5 Things to do Rock My Friend Alexa season 4.0

Plan your posts. It can be around a theme or not. That’s up to you
Write now rough drafts at-least
Schedule
Make creatives
Create optins if you have plans to grow your email list

After one month of the MyfriendAlexa campaign, this was my Global Alexa rank on October first, 2019.

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On World Heart Day I wanted to talk to you about how you can save someone during a cardiac arrest.

What is a Sudden cardiac arrest?

Stats to keep in mind

Shocking case reports

How to recognize Sudden cardiac arrest symptoms?

How to save someone during a sudden cardiac arrest out of a hospital?

What is the emergency ambulance number in India? It’s 108.

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What are the CPR steps?

What is automated defibrillation & how is it done?

Why do Sudden Cardiac arrests occur?

How can communities come forward to prevent death from sudden cardiac arrest?

Takeaway:

To know more about Philips AEDs, please call tollfree 1800 419 8844

Sharing is good Karma!

COPD or Chronic Obstructive pulmonary disease as defined by GOLD[1], is a disease which is characterized by significant restriction of airflow in the lungs and is not fully reversible.

Symptoms of COPD

What happens in COPD?

What are the Risk factors of COPD

Airway responsiveness

What are the stats to support the killing potential of COPD?

Treatment of COPD

The main prongs of treatment are:

Mechanical ventilation

Pulmonary rehabilitation for COPD

Lifestyle tips for those with COPD

What can you do if you suspect you have COPD?

Conclusion: What can you do today?

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Car Safety in India, kids and drivers make a worrisome threesome!

My Chauffer Troubles

The temporary driver from the agency: Is the car safe?

Car safety for children and the Elderly

Can technology solve the problem?

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Can you cheat the Alexa rank?

Why I participate in My Friend Alexa

3 Reasons I participate every year.

Number one

Number 2

Number 4

5 Things to do Rock My Friend Alexa season 4.0

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