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Nadi pariksha deals with the science of assessing the functional status of pulse for diagnosis of healthy mind, body and even soul. The presence of nadi (pulse) in an individual signifies the existence of life. Ayurveda visualizes nadi pariksha being performed to analyze and access the quantity of tridosha in body i.e. nadi provides a platform for diagnosis of normal and vitiated doshas in the body. Nadi pariksha serves as an important diagnostic tool for examination of pulse and it's importance is described in Astavidhapariksha, as one of the important diagnostic measures in ayurvedic literature. The concept of nadi pariksha was visualized in various ayurvedic texts like Sharangdhar Samhita, Yoga Ratnakar, Basavarajeeyam, Bhava Prakasha as well as in Nadi Prakasha by Ravan Samhita and Nadi vigyan by Kanad. The traditional knowledge of nadi pariksha in Ayurveda was practiced since a long time but, these documents need to be assessed as the quality of pulse described was qualitative and the same needs to be well analyzed in quantitatively for practical implication of nadi with scientific approach. This paper deals with the ancient development of diagnostic tool of examination of pulse in parlance with modern approach hence an extensive search was undertaken using key words as Nadi, Nadi pariksha etc in Google scholar, Pubmed, Google as well as ayurvedic literatures were also studied so as to re-establish facts which could be helpful in future.
BACKGROUND Obstetric practitioners routinely deal with antenatal patients who have high risk of developing established coagulopathy, which leads to a very high incidence of maternal morbidity and mortality. We wanted to assess the role of blood components in preventing disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) in highrisk patients and determine the amount of blood components required along with the rate of improvement in the DIC score, during treatment of high-risk obstetric patients of DIC and in patients with established DIC. METHODS This is an interventional study. 274 obstetric patients who were at high risk for developing DIC and / or with established DIC admitted during the 20 months study duration were included in the study. Patients were categorized in to three groups based on the DIC score according to ISTH scoring system in to non-overt and overt DIC groups. Those with DIC score < 5 were grouped as IA and IB randomly and those with DIC score > / = 5 were grouped as II. Software used was ANOVA using variance ratio F test for testing the significance between groups and chisquare test was used to find out the association between the groups or parameter. RESULTS Prophylactic transfusion of blood components showed faster rate of improvement than control group. Average consumption of blood components was more in patients of established coagulopathy as compared to non-overt group. CONCLUSIONS Transfusion of blood components can prevent overt DIC in high-risk patients. KEYWORDS DIC - Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation, PPH - Post Partum Haemorrhage, Coagulopathy, Component Therapy
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