Least Expensive Facial Mask Against Corona Virus for Short Airway Procedures Generating Aerosol.

With ongoing Corona-pandemic, the quality of personal protection equipment (PPE) across the globe is creating controversy. This article presents a novel design of a facial mask that seems suitable to deal with short airway procedures protecting the surgeon from aerosol infection. The concept, design advantages and limitations are discussed. In absence of good quality PPEs this is an excellent option to deal with airway emergencies.

Internet-Based Hearing Assessment During COVID era in Indian Population: Practical and Safe Option.

This pilot observation intends to stress on web-based hearing assessment (WBHA) as somewhat parallel to clinical pure tone audiometry. While WBHA was comparable with PTA in context of severity of deafness particularly in symmetrical hearing loss, it was inconclusive for a gross asymmetry despite multiple trials. With increasing COVID transmission, more need for social distancing and lack of audiologists in developing countries, the self-participation by patients in WBHA model will prove to be a very safe model of deafness-screening.

Indian rituals and herbal remedies: a hope against corona pandemic

World health organization (WHO) starts investigating the possibilities in Phyto-medicines after the outburst of SARS in 2002-2003. In the continuation of viral pandemics in December 2019, a novel corona virus came into existence. The whole world is facing the severe condition due to outbreaks of the present virus. More than two lakhs persons have lost their lives, livelihood and economy due to this COVID-19 virus. In the present review authors are trying to establish the relationship between viral disease and herbal secondary metabolites and rituals smoke with special context to India. Human beings are inhaling the ceremonial fumes from the primeval period. Several plants have shown their antiviral properties against the COVID family viruses such as Ocimum tenuiflorum L. Even every civilization has its strong folk remedial knowledge based on plants, animals and natural products. The ritual vapours not only purify the environment but also increases the immunity of a person. Other promising cure to break the spreading chain of this virus is lockdown. When the whole world is in search of effective medicine for the catastrophic disease, the prospects of Ayurveda should be explored.

Enhancing India's Health Care during COVID Era: Role of Artificial Intelligence and Algorithms.

Computerization of health care is the only model to sustain safe health care in this COVID era particularly in overpopulated nations with limited health care providers/systems like India. Accordingly incorporation of computer-based algorithms and artificial intelligence seems very robust and practical models to assist the physician. The advantages of Computerized algorithms to facilitate better screening, diagnosis or follow-up and use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to aid in medical diagnosis are discussed.