Move Forward to Save a Life: A Review Article on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

Imagine walking on the road and suddenly seeing a passerby suffering from chest pain and collapsing. Would you be able to give a life-saving cardiopulmonary resuscitations CPR? The answer would be most likely; no people should continue to jump in quickly to give CPR, using breaths if they’ve been trained. In case of sudden cardiac arrest, the mortality is very high almost 90 percentage or more is not resuscitated within 10 minutes. A quick action, proper training, use of technology and coordinated efforts can increase survival from cardiac arrest. Survival depends on immediate CPR and other actions that starting with bystanders

Reason for Hospitalization Among Antenatal Mothers- A Retrospective Cohort Study

Background: Prenatal hospital admission can be offered, in such a way complete assessment can be made or for increased foetal or maternal surveillance to diagnose any decline in the maternal or foetal condition which may necessitate medical interventions or lead to delivery. High-risk pregnancy is the condition that is complicated by the factors that unfavourably affect the pregnancy outcome-maternal or perinatal or both. The objective of the study was to assess the reason for hospitalization among the antenatal mothers. Methods: A retrospective cohort study was conducted to identify the reason for the admission of antenatal mothers in the selected maternity hospital, Puducherry. Data were retrieved from the admission register for the past one-month period (January to February 2019). Totally there were 358 admission out of which 303 mother’s data were included for this study and 55 mother’s data were excluded due to incomplete information Results: The major findings of the study showed the majority 207 (68.3%) had any type of risk during antenatal period and 96 (31.7%) of the mothers were healthy. Th risk factors included gestational diabetic mellitus accounted for 52 (17.2%), Previous LSCS accounted for 38 (12.5%), Oligohydramnios/ Polyhydramnios accounted for 34 (11.2%), Gestational Hypertension accounted for 17 (5.6%), Hypothyroidism accounted for 17 (5.6%), Rh negative, diabetic mellitus and Intra uterine growth retardation accounted for 10 (3.3%) separately, Anaemia was accounted for 9 (3%), Pre-term accounted for 3 (1%), Fibroid, VDRL positive, Varicose vein, Cervical Incompetence, HIV and Syphilis accounted for 1 (3%) individually. There was a significant association with the bad obstetric history and risk factor for antenatal hospitalization. (p<0.01). Conclusion: The study results highlighted and proved statistically that gestational diabetic mellitus was the chief cause for antenatal hospitalization and many others conditions associated and act as risk factors for antenatal mothers’ admission. Hence, there is a need for pre-conceptual as well as prenatal counselling for mothers to prevent from the risk factors and identify them earlier and eventually to reduce maternal and foetal morbidity and mortality

Relationship Between The Predicted Birth Weight And Actual Birth Weight of Newborn

Background: Fetal weight estimation is important in modern obstetrics. Certain conditions like diabetic pregnancy, vaginal birth after caesarean section and breech presentation is guided by predicted fetal weight. In developing countries perinatal mortality was high when compared to developed countries. An extensive proportion of this problem was primarily due to birth weight which considered to be the most important parameter which determines the neonatal survival. Aim: This study was aimed to identify the relationship between predicted birth weight and actual birth weight of newborn. Subjects and Methods: The study was conducted among antenatal mothers at term in selected hospital of Puducherry who fulfill the inclusion criteria. Sample size was 35, selected through purposive sampling. The approach used was quantitative approach and design was descriptive research design. The researcher used Dare`s formula (SFH X AG) to predict the fetal weight and it is compared with actual birth weight of newborn. Result: Correlation coefficient was used to correlate the predicted birth weight with actual birth weight of new born. The value of correlation coefficient (r) was 0.85 which indicated that there was significant relationship between predicted birth weight and actual birth weight of newborn. Conclusion: The study revealed that Dare`s formula was a good indicator to predict the fetal weight. It is simple, easy and convenient method. This method can be used by the obstetrician and nurses in low resource setting where ultrasound facilities are not available and refer the patient to the tertiary level hospitals.