Dr. Shruti Shah

A medical oxygen cylinder can be crucial when someone at home has trouble breathing after surgery or when a senior member's oxygen level drops at night. Or when someone requires extra oxygen before the ambulance arrives, which is often the only thing standing between a manageable situation and a crisis. That was what India had to come to realize the hard way during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021, when there was a shortage of oxygen across the country. This experience has...

Although sudden cardiac death in children is uncommon, when it occurs, it is one of the most shocking emergencies a bystander, parent, teacher, or school nurse can encounter. The instinct to act is there. What stops most people is uncertainty: can you actually use an AED on a child, or will the shock be too strong? Understanding the safety of using an AED is very important. Cardiac arrest caused by a shockable rhythm in children has a far higher survival rate than non-shockable causes, and...

Visit any Indian office, and the first aid kit is either missing, hidden in a storeroom, or contains expired supplies that haven't been checked for 2 years. It looks like a compliance checkbox. In a real emergency, it performs like one too. That gap is more significant than most facility heads and HR managers realize. Injuries are not limited to the factory floor. Cuts, burns, falls, sprains, and cardiac events are becoming a common occurrence, particularly for younger professionals, in the...