Healthcare Archives - Dr Anoop Agrawal

6 May

Cardiac Arrest vs Heart Attack

What is a Cardiac Arrest (CA)? CA is a state in which the heart stops working. Due to a lack of blood supply, all essential body organs (for example, the brain, kidneys, liver, lungs, etc.) also stop working. What are the symptoms of a CA? Patients with CA are unconscious and can not talk or […]

17 Apr

When temperature rises, stay cool

Introduction: A billboard on Interstate 94 in Illinois (USA) read, “Your wife is hot; fix your AC”. As funny as this sounded, it emphasised the need to keep the ambient temperature cool. The health hazards of high heat are quite obvious. A simple dehydration can quickly turn into heat exhaustion. Heat cramps are often the […]

15 Apr

General check up for heart

Introduction: Everyone should get a routine medical check-up for heart health, not just because of some sensational news of some celebrity dying due to a heart attack. Unfortunately, heart disease is prevalent, and is often unpredictable. Heart disease is responsible for the majority of the deaths and disability worldwide. Keeping our hearts healthy and happy […]

28 Mar

The true cost of ‘low-cost’

This article was initially published on TheHindu.com. Introduction: The Indian healthcare system can reasonably be characterized as low-cost by global standards but still unaffordable to most of the Indian population. For-profit private setups provide a majority of healthcare services in urban India, in the backdrop of a virtually non-existent non-profit or government establishment. With an […]

28 Mar

Medical Specialists: Who does what?

Introduction: Over the last century, medicine has evolved into a sophisticated complex science requiring a set of specialized skills to decode and analyze all the available clinical data and deduce an expert conclusion. For this reason, the entire field of medicine is divided into various sub-specialities, with each expert gaining the required depth of knowledge […]

27 Mar

Questions You Asked

Here are some of the questions patients have frequently asked over the past few years. I used to have high blood pressure (BP) before. Since I started taking medicines for it, BP is now under control. Can I stop my medicines now? The fact that your BP got under control after you have been put […]

24 Mar

Why is angioplasty so expensive?

Introduction: The cost of angioplasty had been a concern on numerous occasions and was addressed, in part, by price capping of coronary stents (metal scaffolds put inside blood vessels of the heart to keep the vessels open) in 2017 by NPPA. The overall cost of angioplasty may sometimes exceed that of cardiac bypass surgery and may […]

18 Nov

Recording blood pressure at home: Are you following the cardinal rules?

Introduction: As blood travels through the human body’s arteries, it exerts pressure on its walls. This pressure, so-called blood pressure (BP), is maintained within an acceptable range by the body’s regulatory mechanisms. To understand the basic physiology of blood pressure, click here. Hypertension is a condition where blood pressure is consistently higher than what can […]

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