Impact of pandemic restrictions on antenatal complications at a tertiary care center

Background: The ongoing pandemic has drastically affected the heath care sector, especially the tertiary care centers taking the major burden of patients. Apart from COVID-19 positive patients there has also been an increase in Covid 19 negative patients due to other private hospitals being closed. We have conducted an analysis at a tertiary care centre comparing the patient data in 3 months that is from 23rd March 2020 to 22nd June 2020 and the same time period last year 2019. The antenatal and postnatal complications and mode of delivery were analysed.Methods: A total of 1837 cases were compared. Patients were divided into 2 groups case and controls.Control group comprised of 780 patients admitted between 23rd March 2019 to 22nd June 2019. Case group consisted of 1057 patients admitted between 23rd March 2020 to 22nd June 2020. Patient were matched for age, parity, socioeconomic and demographic dataResults: Our results showed that there was no statistically significant increase in antenatal complications despite there being an increase in the total number of patients during the same time period. There was however a significant increase in unregistered cases p<0.0001. There was also a statistically significant increase in the total number of lscs and normal deliveries (p=0.03).Conclusions: Our analysis concludes that despite there being an increase in the total number of cases compared to the previous year there was no statistically significant increase in complications.There was however a significant increase in unregistered cases which may be due to increased referrals from PHCs. The increase in work load perceived by the doctors may possible be due to stress and the added burden of managing COVID-19 positive patients

Analysis of DRA with Performance Evaluation for High Speed System Applications Using Partial Differential Equation based Framework

A novel efficient design analysis has been proposed for a reduced-size dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) using perturbed system of partial differential equations. This has been done by using half-volume resonator with short-circuited plane of symmetry. The design serves as a new configuration of planar antenna, thus making integration of active devices easier. The antenna shows remarkable performance, having low cross-polarization levels and reasonably well radiation patterns. The antenna design has been simulated using a new analytical framework created in MATLAB giving accurate measurement details

Development of cultivated and wild pomegranate mixed fruit jelly and its quality evaluation during storage

The present study was undertaken for the development of jelly from cultivated and wild pomegranate fruit juice mix and its quality evaluation during storage of six months. A product with 55 % mixed fruit juice content (cultivated and wild pomegranate juice in 80:20 ratio) with 45 % sugar was found to be the best on the basis of sensory analysis of prepared jelly. Jelly could safely be stored for a period of half year under both the ambient and refrigerated conditions without much change in its various chemical attributes viz., total soluble solids (TSS), titratable acidity, ascorbic acid, anthocyanins, pectin, total phenolics and sensory quality characteristics viz., colour, texture, flavour and overall acceptability. However, the changes in the quality characteristics of the jelly were slower in refrigerated storage conditions as compared to ambient conditions. Under refrigerated conditions, changes in TSS from 67.00 to 67.36 0B,titratable acidity from 0.75 to 0.71%, ascorbic acid from 9.18 to 7.35 mg/100 g, anthocyanins from 11.34 to 10.17 mg/100 g and total phenols from 63.10 to 60.06 mg/100 g were observed after 6 months of storage. Both the packaging material viz., polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and glass jars were found suitable with comparatively slower changes occurring in glass jars under refrigerated conditions

Freshwater oligochaetes of India: A review

The present review deals with freshwater oligochaetes of India which records the presence of 102 species of freshwater oligochaetes belonging to 17 genera and 4 families. Besides this, a brief description of their global and Indian distribution has also been made along with their ecology, morphology of typical oligochaetes methods of their collection and preparation for taxonomic study has also been given. A thorough survey of various states is needed for the distribution of oligochaetes systematically