This book adresses to the effectiveness of single prophylactic dose of amiodarone in the presence of an irritative arrythymia prone left atrium and its role in restoring sinus rhythm which is always preferred but unattainable.All though many studies have been done in establishing the role of prophylactic oral amiodarone in valve replacement surgery, this study is unique because here prophylactic intravenous amiodarone was administered irrespective of the presence of atrial fibrillation.This study advocates to use low dose intravenous amiodarone prophylactically to reduce adverse arrhythmic...

This book addresses to the cardiovascular manifestation of systemic sclerosis with particular reference to cardiac involvement in patients with systemic sclerosis with pulmonary hypertension. The subjects in this study were Indian subjects and the findings of the study can be extrapolated to Asian population and can serve as a ready reckoner to physicians and cardiologists involved in treating such group of patients.

This book describes comparative analgesic profile of thoracic epidural and paravertebral block as multimodal analgesia in thoracotomy patients postoperatively along with their hemodynamic consequences and side effects. This study won the Smt Sarojini Debi Memorial Award 2013 and was one of the few selected papers in T. N. Jha award & K. P. Chansoriya Travel Grant, ISACON2013, (Annual National Conference of Indian Society of Anesthesiologists) and Dr Basudev Guha Memorial Paper Presentation 2013.