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Background: Determination of attitude and awareness towards epilepsy in general population. Despite successfully achievement of management of epilepsy in hospitals, the efforts to assess the awareness and mass education is very limited.Methods: Total 880 participants were required to answer a series of questionnaires related to demographic data, awareness, attitude towards epilepsy with details of their first aid management and their source of information for the same.Results: Concerning attitude, 14.65% would object having their children associated with epilepsy. 72.16% would object to marry or their children marrying an epileptic. 8.86% thought epilepsy as a form of insanity. Concerning knowledge, the 33% will seek others help as a first aid measure and 50% don't have any source of information regarding first aid management.Conclusions: The results indicate considerable amount of social stigma still exist and alarming fact was even the educated people still think it as a social stigma and are biased. Awareness needs to be enhanced through various knowledge campaigns. Stress on proper first aid measure to a seizing person needs to be addressed to remove fear and anxiety among the public.
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Background: Identifying common etiological organisms among cases of suspected sepsis and their sensitivity pattern for common antibiotics will help in initiating appropriate therapy. Finding association of positive culture with other markers of infection like total leucocyte count, haemoglobin, C-reactive protein.Methods: Descriptive and an observational study conducted in Kempegowda Institute of Medical Sciences, hospital paediatric intensive care unit, Bangalore, Karnataka, India. Data was collected prospectively. Duration of study was for 1 year from February 2018 to February 2019.Results: During the study, 52 cases admitted to paediatric intensive care unit were suspected to have sepsis and 91 samples were sent for culture. Out of these, 46 were blood, 34 were of urine and 11 others (pleural, CSF, ET). Among these samples tested 26% (18) of blood, 23.5% (8) of urine and 45.45% (5) of other samples showed organisms.Conclusions: In this study, author were able to know the common etiological agent involved in sepsis. Author were able to identify the antibiotic sensitivity patterns among various organism which provide valid data for initiation of appropriate treatment.