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Slideworld.org  is very informative and educative medical search engine. Slide World shares Powerpoint (PPT) Medical slides presentation on health disease. Download free medical slides and Health powerpoint (PPT) for Doctors, Patients & Medical Students on cardiology, allergy, internal and family medicine, dermatology, neurology, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, psychiatry, surgery.

Hospital infections


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What are Hospital acquired infections



An infection acquired in hospital by a patient who was admitted for a reason other than that infection . An infection occurring in a patient in a hospital or other health care facility in whom the infection was not present or incubating at the time of admission. This includes infections acquired in the hospital but appearing after discharge, and also occupational infections among staff of the facility 

Nosocomial Infections

Nosocomial comes from the Greek word nosokomeion  meaning hospital (nosos = disease, komeo = to take care of). This type of infection is also known as a hospital-acquired infection (or more generically healthcare-associated infections). 










What is GLP?


Good Laboratory Practice is an essential part of Good Manufacturing Practice detailed in Schedule M to the Drugs   Cosmetic Rule. It involves a number of good practices in the Quality Control laboratory which are to be undertaken to carry out an analysis with a defined degree of Accuracy   Precision.


Importance of G L P



Since raw materials, packaging materials, intermediates and finished products are ultimately released based on the analytical results generated in the Q.C. Laboratory,  Accuracy, Precision and Reliability of these results are of paramount importance.


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What is Quality?

Quality is degree to which a set of inherent characteristics fulfills requirements.
Characteristics : inherent characteristics of a product, process or system related to requirement.
Requirement : need or expectation that is stated, generally implied or obligatory.

Quality Control 
      Quality Control is the part of Quality management focused on fulfilling quality requirements

Quality Assurance
        Quality Assurance is the part of the Quality Management focused on providing confidence that quality requirements will be fulfilled.
In other words, Quality Assurance means to assure quality in a product so that a customer can buy it with confidence and use it for a long period of time with confidence and satisfaction.
It takes ten or more years to build confidence in your products, but that confidence can be lost overnight.


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Introduction


What is Quality?

Quality is degree to which a set of inherent characteristics fulfills requirements.
Characteristics : inherent characteristics of a product, process or system related to requirement.
Requirement : need or expectation that is stated, generally implied or obligatory.


Quality Assurance
Quality Assurance is the part of the Quality Management focused on providing confidence that quality requirements will be fulfilled.
In other words, Quality Assurance means to assure quality in a product so that a customer can buy it with confidence and use it for a long period of time with confidence and satisfaction.






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ICH , the international body on harmonization od drud standards and regulatories published the standard ICH Q7A for Good Manufacturing Practices for Pharmaceutical Bulk Drugs. This presentation can of immense use for training of middle level managers engaged in pharma industry and academia.



Basic Sleep Hygiene





-Good sleep hygiene is critical for one’s overall physical and mental health.
-Your body can be compared to a battery - it needs to be re-charged on a regular basis or it will get run down and maybe even die!
-It is best to go to bed at a regular time each night and get up at a regular time every morning – 7 days a week.
-The body needs 7 - 8 hours of quality sleep every night. 
-Your overall health will pay the price eventually if you are constantly sleep deprived

Definitions

-Apnoea : Cessation of airflow for greater than 10 seconds with continued chest and abdominal effort.
-Hypopnea : Decrease in amount of air breathed (some say by 50%) with a desaturation of at least 3%.









Diabetes 




=1552 BC, Diabetes 1st Described In Writing on 3rd Dynasty Eqyptian papyrus by physician Hesy-Ra: mentions polyuria as a symptom.

=250 BC, Apollonius of Memphis coined the name "diabetes” meaning "to go through" or siphon. He understood that the disease drained more fluid than a person could consume. 

Diabetes Mellitus

-Gradually the Latin word for honey, "mellitus," was added to diabetes because it made the urine sweet.

 -Up to 11th century diabetes was commonly diagnosed by “water tasters” who drank the urine of those suspected of having diabetes, as it was sweet-tasting





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Leukaemia


-“White blood” – leucos/aemia
-1827 Alfred Velpeau
63 year old florist, fever, weakness, urinary stones, hepatosplenomegaly
Blood “like gruel”
-1845 JH Bennett – patients with enlarged spleens and changes in the colour of the blood – “Leucocythaemia”
-1856 Virchow observed the white cells with a microscope – “Leukaemia”

Acute Leukaemia

=Rapidly progressive
=Proliferation of primitive “blast” cells
=Acute myeloblastic (myeloid) leukaemia
“Acute non-lymphoblastic leukaemia”
=Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia