Reflections on Medicine and Life by Dr. S.P. Kalantri
I designed an evidence-based management protocol for managing patients admitted to our teaching hospital with Covid19. The concept was minimalist: excluding irrational, untested, unproven therapies and focusing only on those which have been shown to work in large randomised trials. Here is a YouTube link to the powerpoint presentation:
The novel anti-Covid medicines look promising and appealing, but I’d urge caution in interpreting the study results…
Last week, the district collector called a meeting. The meeting was attended, among other, by local MLAs, MPs, bureaucrats and doctors from the two medical colleges in the district. The second wave had peaked and more patients were seeking hospital admissions than the hospital could provide. ICU beds were at a premium and hospitals were … Read the essay
India has the world’s second-largest COVID-19 outbreak. India desperately needs effective treatments. But the way the country’s drug regulator is handling potential therapies concerns many of us. The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has approved several repurposed drugs for ‘restricted emergency use’ for treating the disease. On what basis were these drugs approved? Was … Read the essay