Mehrotra, Sameer Jambunathan, Prashant Jindal, Manisha Gupta, Aditya Kapoor, Krishan
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Medical journal, Armed Forces India
In late 2019, the world saw a viral outbreak of unprecedented scale that sent a significant fraction of humankind into either quarantine or lockdown. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a respiratory tract infection caused by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which was first recognized in Wuhan, China, in December...
Gupta, Simmi Prasad, Ajay Shankar Dixit, Prashant Kumar Padmakumari, P Gupta, Salil Abhisheka, Kumar
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Medical journal, Armed Forces India
A prospective study was conducted during the second phase of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in India to assess the prevalence of anxiety and depressive symptoms among healthcare workers (HCWs) and factors that influence the outcome. A self-administered questionnaire was completed by 1124 HCWs during the COVID-19 pandemic (March 30...
Choudhury, Shuvasish Moulick, Debojyoti Saikia, Purbajyoti Mazumder, Muhammed Khairujjaman
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Medical journal, Armed Forces India
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has already affected 2883603 and killed 198842 people, as of April 27, 2020. Because there is no specific therapeutic drug, drug repurposing has been proposed. RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) is a promising drug against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) to control its replication, a...
Gupta, Arun Kunte, Renuka Goyal, Neeti Ray, Sougat Singh, Kamalpreet
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Medical journal, Armed Forces India
Management of novel viral respiratory disease outbreak on-board a ship with person-to-person transmission can be a public health challenge because of close proximity of inhabitants due to confined space and air-conditioned environment. It has a potential to be explosive, with high secondary attack rate (SAR) and cause significant morbidity and mort...
Chatterjee, Kaushik Shankar, Subramanian Chatterjee, Kaustuv Yadav, Arun Kumar
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Medical journal, Armed Forces India
With the rise of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases in India, lockdown was imposed from March 25, 2020. We studied post-lockdown scenarios and evaluated health-care constraints. Our aim was to identify the scenarios in which health-care availability would not be overwhelmed. A modified compartmental SEIR stochastic model was used to calculat...
Pandey, Shikha Kumar, Poninder Moulick, P S Vats, Sumedha
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Medical journal, Armed Forces India
Spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) detects early structural damage to macula in patients on Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) therapy. The current screening protocols emphasize concurrent use of both SD-OCT and Visual field analysis (VFA) which detects functional damage to detect Hydroxychloroquine maculopathy. However, VFA is a time-cons...
Agrawal, Umang Raju, Reyma Udwadia, Zarir F
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Medical journal, Armed Forces India
With over 16 million cases reported from across the globe, the SARS-CoV-2, a mere 125 microns in diameter, has left an indelible impact on our world. With the paucity of new drugs to combat this disease, the medical community is in a race to identify repurposed drugs that may be effective against this novel coronavirus. One of the drugs which has r...
Kotwal, Atul Yadav, Arun Kumar Yadav, Jyoti Kotwal, Jyoti Khune, Sudhir
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Medical journal, Armed Forces India
The mathematical modelling of coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic has been attempted by a wide range of researchers from the very beginning of cases in India. Initial analysis of available models revealed large variations in scope, assumptions, predictions, course, effect of interventions, effect on health-care services, and so on. Thus, a r...
Suranagi, Umesh Devappa Rehan, Harmeet Singh
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Medical journal, Armed Forces India
Bhutani, Sourabh Khan, Imran Nasser, Abdul Saxena, C S
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Medical journal, Armed Forces India
Submarine operations require strict adherence to standard operating and safety procedures and errors in judgement or accidents could lead to catastrophe and impair the submarine's ability to surface. In case of disablement of a submarine (DISSUB), the crew would have to survive inside the submarine for a variable period awaiting rescue. Microclimat...
