Gandhi Medical College

Non-pharmacological analgesia and sedation in the pediatric intensive care unit: a narrative review

Abstract Managing pain, anxiety, and agitation in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) is often challenging. Pharmacological sedation and analgesia with opioids and benzodiazepines are essential components of PICU management. Although these are effective, they carry risks of...

Analytical performance evaluation of commercially available hepatitis A virus IgM immunoassays: ELISA, ICTs, and chemiluminescence immunoassay

Objectives: The objective of the study is to evaluate the diagnostic performance of commercially available hepatitis A virus (HAV) immunoglobulin M (IgM) index tests, specifically enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA) and rapid immunochromatographic tests (ICTs), against a c...

Hierarchical federated edge learning with criticality-aware aggregation for privacy-preserving fetal health classification

The automated classification of fetal health from cardiotocographic (CTG) recordings is a crucial machine learning application in obstetric diagnostics. Although centralized predictive models have advanced significantly, their large-scale clinical deployment remains structurally...