Dr. Venkita S. Suresh

Group Medical Director, Kauvery Hospitals, India

Dear colleagues,

The KAUVERIAN’ s ” Mission Possible ” continues without a pause in pace.

Our first mission is to “search, support and celebrate” new authors each time we publish.

We introduce NINE new authors on the 8th May issue!

We open with a Clinical Audit by Dr. Kavin et all from Trichy Orthopedics, continuing the unfolding saga of clinical audits at Trichy into Kauvery Data and Clinical Outcomes.

Three transcripts of our Online Kauvery Post Graduate Lectures follow.

Dr. Mubeena, ER Consultant at Salem, lectures on ‘Plasmapheresis and Haemofiltration for Poisoning’

Dr. Akash, Pediatric Neurologist at maa kauvery, Trichy covers ‘ Approach to Seizures in Children’.

Dr. Uday Varma, Intensivist at Hosur, addresses Total Parenteral Nutrition.

Laboratory Physicians are now our regular authors.

Drs Thilagavathy and Anitha Jasmine publish a fascinating series of two Dancing Dragons, on the diagnosis of Strongyloidis Stercoralis.

Dr. Ram Kumar, Sr Consultant, Plastic Surgery from Vadapalani, presents a Multifocal Giant Cell Tumor of the wrist.

Drs Karthikeyan and Moosa Kunhi from CTVS and Srinivasan from Cardiac Anaesthesia, Radial Road, present Aortic Dissection.

Mahalakshmi, Physician Assistant from Trichy Cantonment, presents Bullous Pemphigoid.

Drs Mohankumar and Vivek, from Orthopedics, ECB, present Chondro myxoma Fibroid excision and bone grafting.

Dr. Baraneedharan, devoted and dedicated diabetologist from Alwarpet, presents his Dream Project ” Diabetes on Wheels”.

Dr. Harish and colleagues at Marathahalli (Drs Alankrita, Abbas, Gururaj Gunda, Shridhar Gidaganti, Ashwini  Goura and Lokanand,  and Dr  Chaitra, Sr Resident), report two major clinical  challenges that they encountered and countered – by the  imaginative use of ECMO in Beta Blocker overdose and by Unveiling the Unexepected- Peripartum Cardiomyopathy .

Dr. Kavin is back with Dr Janani and mentors Drs Chockalingam and Ramasamy, from Trichy Orthopedics, with Giant Cell Tumor of Talus.

Paraquat is an unforgiving, combative and destructive poison which claims many young lives.

Dr. Deepak Kumar, uncompromising young physician, now in transit from Nellai to Salem, is ecstatic in reporting his salvage of a teen aged girl.

We requested our celebrated toxicologist Dr. K Senthilkumar, HoD Anaesthesiology Trichy, to complement this young consultant” s effort with a Guest Editorial on the subject. That appears here.

Mahendra Samy, Physician Assistant from Neurosurgery, Trichy highlights management of Pitutary Apoplexy.

Kausalya, young DMO from Nellai, takes on Type 3c DM from chronic Calcific Pancreatitis, an age old disease from the agricultural heartland of the South.

Dr. Yashaswini, Consultant Pediatric Intensivist, her colleague Kiran Araballi, Dr. Sonya Tambe, pediatric neurologist, Dr. Kulkarni, HoD Radiology, all from Kauvery ECB and guest Dr. Pavan Satyam write on Tuberous Sclerosis Complex.

Dr. Ganesh Veerabhadra, Neurosurgeon, Kauvery ECB and colleagues Sumana Pallegar, Vivek Chandra and Manjunath Reddy and Yashoda, Phy Asst, report on Restoration of Spinal Stability in a patient with Odontoid fracture.

Drs Skanda, Murali, Shylesh, Preethivaradhan and Pratheep from Trichy Kauvery report their great Work of Art and Precision again – a case series of Hand Replants which occurred in quick succession.

PCI takes off spectacularly at maa kauvery, Trichy!

Dr. Suresh Chelliah reports on this achievement by Dr Vinothkumar, pediatric cardiologist, inspired by his colleagues and mentors.

We welcome back Dental Sciences. Dr. Thayumanavan, Consultant Periodontologist, who reports on Successful management of Bilateral Temporomandibular Joint Ankylosis in a pediatric patient at maa kauvery. Trichy.

Air Cmde (Dr) Krishna Yadav, Neurosurgeon, Kauvery MHB, debuts on Kauverian with Stabilization of Dislocated C2, with impending quadriplegia.

Dr. Manjunath, Interventional Cardiologist, also from MHB, concludes the reports with an image of his intervention of Fistuloplasty.

Journal Scan from the editor, the book chapter from the teacher and the poem from the poet laureate of KAUVERIAN ring down the curtain on the issue.

The KAUVERIAN Scientific Journals never sleeps!

Two special editions honoring two very special people – Nurses and Emergency Medicine professionals shall appear this month.

Do read, and write for the Kauverian

Best regards

Kauvery Hospital