Background: Depression is a common mental disorder that puts constraints on quality of life among elderly in the form of sadness, loss of interest or pleasure, feelings of guilt or low self -esteem, disturbed sleep or appetite, fatigue and poor concentration. More than 150 million persons suffer from depression at any point of time in the world WHO has ranked depression fourth in a list of most urgent health problems worldwide Aims &Objectives: To find out the Prevalence of depression among patients attending medicine outpatient department in a tertiary care centre. Subjects and Methods: A cross sectional study was carried out in the General medicine outpatient department of a tertiary care Centre. Adult male and females attending general medicine outpatient department were included and psychosis, terminally ill patients were excluded. Results: Out of the 150 study participants majority are females (60%). The Prevalence of depression in the current study is56% . 39.1% of males and 60.6%of females among the study group are depressed. 62% of unemployed participants are depressed. Conclusion: The study highlight the importance of routine screening for depression in all patients in all healthcare settings and implementation of strategies for proper management and prevention of depression in those patients
Background: Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is the most frequent intensive care unit (ICU)-related infection in patients requiring mechanical ventilation. In contrast to other ICU-related infections, which have a low mortality rate, the mortality rate for ventilator-associated pneumonia ranges from 20% to 50%. Lack of a gold standard diagnosis is the main factor of poor outcome of VAP Knowledge of the incidence of VAP and their associated risk factors are important for development and use of more effective preventive measures. Aims &Objectives: To find out the incidence of VAP in adult patients undergoing mechanical ventilation and to identify the main risk factors for development of Ventilator-associated pneumonia. Subjects and Methods: A prospective study was carried out in the Intensive care unit of a tertiary care CentreAll adult patients of both sexes on mechanical ventilation for more than 48 hours were included. Patients who died or developed pneumonia at the time of admission and patients of acute respiratory distress syndrome were excluded. Results: 100 ventilated patients over a period of 1 year were included in the study.Of the 100 patients 20 patients developed ventilator associated pneumonia.Our study found that 60%of the cases were late-onset VAP, while 40% were early-onset VAP. Supine head position and impaired consciousness, were found to be risk factors, of VAP. Conclusion: settings. Knowledge of the important risk factors predisposing to VAP may prove to be useful in implementing simple and effective preventive measures.
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