Natl Med J India
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In today's world, video games have become an integral part of our lives, even for adults. While gaming disorder is now recognized as a disease, the literature is still not extensive regarding various aspects of the obsessive playing of video games. Taking the Player-Unknown's Battlegrounds as an example, this article provides a medical student's perspective on the effects of excessive playing of video games and some positive aspects of video games, which are less talked about.
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Observational Study
Mitigation of in-hospital risk of coronavirus disease 2019: Experience from a haematology-oncology and stem cell transplant setting.
. Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) was first described in December 2019 and has evolved into an ongoing global pandemic. Cancer patients on chemotherapy are immunocompromised and are at the highest risk of Covid-19-related complications. We describe our experience with the management of haematology-oncology and stem cell transplant (SCT) patients receiving curative chemotherapy in a hospital with a high influx of Covid-19 patients. ⋯ . In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, treatment for haematological malignancies must continue while balancing the risk of Covid-19 infections. Our report emphasizes the effectiveness of measures such as hand hygiene, social isolation, patient segregation, use of masks and PPE and universal pre-treatment testing for Covid-19 in reducing the risk of infection in a high-risk clinical setting.