Word "Polution Related" now added to diagnosis of ICU patients
The Holy Family Hospital in Okhla will start this process for their ICU patients, said Dr Sumit Ray, head of the department of critical care at the hospital.;
New Delhi: Amid deteriorating air quality in the national capital, a private city hospital is planning to write "pollution-related" in diagnosis of patients, in what could be a first for a medical facility here.
The Holy Family Hospital in Okhla will start this process for their ICU patients, said Dr Sumit Ray, head of the department of critical care at the hospital.
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"Worsening lung condition can be either due to infection, seasonal change or due to pollution. With X-rays, cultures, and certain bio-markers, we will be able to rule out the possibility of the condition being due to infection or any other factor. If those are negative, and if there was a spike in pollution levels at that time and there was no other reason that triggered the problem, we will put it in the final diagnosis that it was triggered by pollution," he said.
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