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POST KNEE REPLACEMENT SURGERY CARE

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  RECOVERY AFTER TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT SURGERY Total knee replacement (TKR) is also called total knee arthroplasty. It is surgery that is done to remove and replace your knee joint. The knee joint is where your femur (thighbone) and tibia (large lower leg bone or shinbone) meet. During the TKR, the damaged parts of your knee joint are removed and replaced with an implant. This implant may be made of metal, ceramic, or plastic. You may need to have one or both of your knee joints replaced. WHAT HAPPENS DURING POSTOPERATIVE CARE ? For the first several days to a week after total knee replacement surgery, recovery will occur in the hospital under the guidance of a care team. The care team, which can include doctors, nurses, physiotherapists and occupational therapists, will help patients learn to move safely, using assistive devices such as crutches or a walker, while their knee heals. The team will provide recommendations for careful movements to help prevent knee dislocation.
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How Does Diabetes Affect Your Body?

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It can take work to get your   diabetes   under control, but the results are worth it. Uncontrolled diabetes means your blood sugar levels are too high, even if you're treating it. And you may have symptoms such as peeing more often, being thirsty a lot, and having other problems related to your diabetes.  If you don't make the effort to get a handle on it, you could set yourself up for a host of complications. Diabetes can take a toll on nearly every organ in your body, including your: Heart and blood vessels Eyes Kidneys Nerves Gastrointestinal tract Gums and teeth Heart and Blood Vessels Heart disease  and blood vessel disease are common problems for many people who don’t have their diabetes under control. You're at least twice as likely to have heart problems and strokes as people who don’t have the condition. Blood vessel damage or  nerve damage  may also cause foot problems that, in rare cases, can lead to amputations. People with diabetes are ten times likelier to ha
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Know more about Gestational Diabetes

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Gestational diabetes is diagnosed during pregnancy and can cause blood sugar levels to become too high. When glucose enters our bloodstream, our cells use it as fuel. Insulin and other cells help absorb glucose from your blood. During pregnancy, a woman’s body naturally becomes more resistant to insulin, so that more glucose is available to nourish her baby. For most women, it isn’t a problem unless her pancreas can’t keep up with increased demand for insulin and lead to blood sugar levels to rise too high. This leads to gestational diabetes, which needs to be recognized and treated quickly to avoid health complications.   Women at Risk for Developing Gestational Diabetes Anyone can develop gestational diabetes, and not all those who do get it have known risk factors. Around 5 to 10 percent of all pregnant women get gestational diabetes. Your chances of developing it are higher if you: Are 25 years or older Have close relative Have a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 30 or higher Have Polycysti
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What is the difference between Heart attack and Cardiac arrest?

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  For many heart attack and cardiac arrest are the same, however a detailed understanding of the two helps to know the difference. Heart diseases or cardiovascular diseases include a range of conditions that affect the heart and blood vessels. Heart diseases like the heart attack and cardiac arrest are very common heart conditions. There is a lot of confusion and misunderstanding of the two, with one term used for another by many people. Heart attack and cardiac arrest are both different, as the former refers to stoppage of blood flow to the heart and the latter refers to sudden stopping of heart beat. If heart attack is a blood circulatory problem, cardiac arrest is an electrical condition. What is heart attack? The human heart is made up of muscles. Like all muscles, it needs continuous supply of oxygenated blood to function normally. The coronary arteries provide for the continuous supply of oxygenated blood to the heart’s muscles. When there is blockage or blood clot in the coronar
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Fetal Development during Different Pregnancy Stages

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  In theory, how life comes into being is a race story. Out of millions, one sperm has to win the race of meeting the egg to fertilize it where begins the union of father’s and mother’s genes, that what the 9th standard biology book tells us. But what happens after is really an incredible journey every woman longs to feel in life. The journey of 40 weeks when the mother finally gets to meet the unique new-born she created out of her own flesh and blood is worth describing. Though there are no words that can describe the feeling we can have a peek at the miraculous changing of a ball of cells to a fully formed human being. So let’s begin the journey, The Pregnancy Kit Show Positive! Begin of a new life be it a planned or a sudden one. In that one minute of the nerve-wracking wait, millions of ‘What If’s’ pop up in the mind of would-be mothers. It is that moment every woman want to experience. The first memory of finding out is relieved by the mother with the comical actions intact throu
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Hepatitis Cause

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  Hepatitis in lay man’s term means inflammation within the liver. It can occur due to multiple causes and includes viral infections like hepatitis A, B, C and E; excessive intake of alcohol ( Alcoholic hepatitis ) or due to some triggers within the body which causes the liver to be attacked by the body’s own defense mechanism ( autoimmune hepatitis ) etc. The most common cause of Hepatitis in India is Hepatitis A and Hepatitis E, which usually spreads through contaminated drinking water and food and mostly by the feco-oral route where there is contamination of food with fecal matter due to improper hygiene. Most of the cases of hepatitis A and E are self-limiting. It has a crescendo-decrescendo course wherein initially, there will be a rise in liver enzymes (SGOT and SGPT) followed by the development of jaundice. The entire episode may be preceded by a viral prodrome which could include fever, malaise, loss of appetite, nausea etc. The course of this hepatitis is usually around 6 to 8
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WORLD TRAUMA DAY

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  Every year, 17th October is celebrated as World Trauma Day. This day highlights the increasing rate of accidents and injuries causing death and disability across the world and the need to prevent them. Trauma means "any injury caused to the body". The injury may be caused due to many reasons like road accidents, fires, burns, falls, acts of violence and crimes against the vulnerable population including women, children and elderly.   Amongst all the causes, Road Traffic Accident (RTA) is the leading cause of trauma across the world. Many injuries may lead to temporary or permanent disability while others may even cause death. Every year, about 5 million people die from injuries across the world. In India alone, it is estimated that one million people die and 20 million are hospitalized every year due to injuries. According to National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), about 1,37,000 people died in road accidents in India in 2013.  The burden of disease due to trauma is increasi
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