Dr. Venkita S. Suresh

Group Medical Director, 1wins, India

Dear Readers,

This issue of KAUVERIAN opens with the Trichy Renal Transplant Audit (just in time, before we arrive at the milestone of One Thousand Kidney Transplants!) and also carries many other extraordinary papers.

Dr. K. Senthil Kumar from Trichy writes brilliantly about eradicating HAI in the OR. Those very suggestions can banish HAI from our wards.

Dr. Arivarasan, from Trichy, presents a most educative and exhaustive audit about Etiology and Management of Upper and Lower GI Haemorrhage.

Deepa.S, Subhadra and Mahalakshmi and colleagues, from Trichy, write extraordinarily well about Lymphoma in an adolescent, perhaps the best written article ever put together by Kauvery Nurses.

The heart- rending story of Diabetes Distress which is at the core of a Doctoral Research of the subject by Dr. Gowri, from Trichy, has been told here.

Dr. Pravin” s sweeping saga of salvaging patients from cardiac arrhythmias in the OR of Heart City, Trichy, appears here.

Manisha G Kumar, Ortho resident, and Dr. Chockalingam, from Trichy, present a pathological fracture of the Femur, associated with Alkaptonuria

Dr. Arunagiri, and Visvesh, Resident in Dr NB program in Vascular surgery at Trichy, present a patient with complex polytrauma who required an emergency TEVAR.

Dr. Anne Prewina Gunasekar, Debut pediatrician author from Nellai,.reports on PRES- Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome!

Brilliant Ultrashort reports appear in this issue

Dramatic Primary Angioplasty by Dr. Joseph followed by successful ERCP by Dr .Arivarasan, at Trichy.

Reverse Shoulder Arthroplasty by Dr. J. MohanKumar at ECB.

Diagnostic images are here!

Dr. Chockalingam posts on Ochronosis, Dr. Sathya Narayana posts on Saccular Aneurysm and Dr. Femila, Pathologist at Radial Road, posts on Histopathology.

Dharsshini and Booma, Clinical Pharmacist and Asst Nursing Superintendent respectively at Trichy, present the fastest ever putting together Kauvery Data on “Pregnancy, Lupus and APLA, presented at the World Rheumatology Forum.

The third in a series of audits on Guideline Directed Medical Treatment for Heart Failure has been published by, Vignesh and Dharsshini, both clinical pharmacists at Trichy.

These HF audits are our base camps on our determined endeavour to reach of summit of pure care for heart failure.

The Ten Commandments were sermoned on Mount Sinai.

We sermonize on the “Five Pillars” to elevate quality of care in Heart Failure.

Last but not the least, Srinidhi Ranganathan, a visiting medical student of Indian origin from the US, writes about her life- changing experience from shadowing a prodigal and gifted interventional cardiologist at 1win, Chennai, through two reports.

Our regular serials- Journal Scan from my desk, and a chapter from Dr.Yeshwanth””s book appear towards the end.

Very appropriately, our poet Bala pays a tribute to our intrepid women on the International Day for Women.

The KAUVERY never stood still in its flow or mission.

The KAUVERIAN also shall not be like Mikhail Solokhov” s Nobel winning “Quiet flows the Don”!

The KAUVERIAN shall flow strong and strident, firmly resolved to showcase Kauverians’ Work , from the Delta to Delhi and beyond, from down south to up north, from the west coast to east coast, from peninsular India to the four continents of the globe, from the Earth to the farthest galaxies..

On this galactic mission, Kauvery Scientific Journals have thus far launched ONE HUNDRED issues as of date.

Do read, and write for, the KAUVERIAN

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