Sri Mummadi

Pulmonary/Critical Care physician. Interests in pleural medicine, obstructive lung disease, neglected tropical diseases & informatics.

[Jeremy Farrar @JeremyFarrar]

Insecticide fogging has role as rapid, reactive emergency intervention & reduce mosquito populations & break chain transmission during outbreaks.While highly visible & favoured by some communities, @WHO advise should be used as temporary supplement not routine prevention tool

[Sri Mummadi @MummadiSri]

In addition to the text based captchas other non evidence based mandates such as frequent password change mandates, password protected PDFs. Icing on the cake is the mandate on uploaded photographs/PDFs being less than 100 MB. We have to find specialized software that compresses these files to satisfy these exacting demands.

[Sri Mummadi @MummadiSri]

Excellent article. An additional point I would like to make- Is Indian private sector any better? The UI/UX may be clearly better but most of them have fast moving ads of their own products, mandates frequent password changes, routinely use PDF passwords. They see their website as an advertising platform rather than enable key functions of customers (banking, airline reservation etc). My experience is from interacting with HDFC, Air India, Indigo, and Union Bank of India (this last one is likely a govt bank). A customer is an enemy until proven other wise in India.

[Sri Mummadi @MummadiSri]

This very appropriate regulation of ultrasound machines does indeed have an unintended consequence. I have noticed very poor penetration of point of care ultrasound for critical care in Indian settings. I know the intention is correct but there should be a way to facilitate POC (point of care ) ultrasound which is now fast replacing stethoscope and adding immense value to bedside exam in the emergency medicine abd critical care medicine universes.

[Sri Mummadi @MummadiSri]

@BFI_Impact @sandeepnailwal Thank you @BFI_Impact

[Sri Mummadi @MummadiSri]

Flu epidemiology in India has interesting patterns , unlike other NH countries. Below Srinagar, the predominant strains are SH (Southern Hemisphere) and the annual epidemics seem have to distinct bimodal peak. One peak in the monsoon season and one peak in the winter season. The current vaccines have limited efficacy and therefore vaccines 2x per year 1 month before the peak needs urgent study. Additionally mRNA flu vaccines seem to have more efficacy but sometime for them to enter routine clinical use.

[Sri Mummadi @MummadiSri]

Indian private banks (my experience with @HDFC_Bank ) promote their products on their websites/apps as fast moving banners in the visual zone where you expect actionable buttons/tabs. At least stop the seizure inducing pace of promotions. They see the websites as advertising spaces, not enabling banking. Customer is always the enemy for these poorly designed sites. The objective is misaligned. They should publish the methodology by which they arrived at this design. Did they use best UI/UX principles? Did they collect data from focus groups? . This misery continues as long as they see their website as yet another advertising platform.

[Sri Mummadi @MummadiSri]

Such innovations needed for Indian homes/schools. I have observed Indian homes, and buildings oblivious to principles of cross ventilation. Ventilation in popular Indian parlance is confused with indoor lighting. Inability to acknowledge bad air quality in our homes, and schools is a perfect example for metacognitive defect- "We don't know what we don't know".

[LET'S AIR @nousaerons]

Well done @SmartairUk on this deployment and for making your simple and effective technology accessible. 👍

[LET'S AIR @nousaerons]

Well done @SmartairUk on this deployment and for making your simple and effective technology accessible. 👍

[Sri Mummadi @MummadiSri]

@abandopa @IITKanpur Thank you @abandopa

[Sri Mummadi @MummadiSri]

@AIMtoInnovate Would the lecture/seminar's link on using design thinking for innovation be available for online viewing? Please share if applicable. Thanks a lot.

[Sri Mummadi @MummadiSri]

@HemophiliaX @IcmrNiih @MoHFW_INDIA @DeptHealthRes @ICMRDELHI @NImmunology @DBTIndia @MerilLife @RuchaPatil286 My suspicion is that it will be used to detect patients who have developed antibodies to F-8 after frequent transfusions. They would have been Hemophilia A patients to begin with and would have been receiving F-8 infusions during bleeding crises.

[Sri Mummadi @MummadiSri]

@zoru75 Obligated password changes every 3 months , password protected PDFs continue as well. Customer is the enemy.

[Sri Mummadi @MummadiSri]

Interesting you use noise canceling headphones. I used to use them as well and later realized that your ear is still exposed to loud noise (you have to increase the volume to compensate). I then shifted to Honeywell L3 ear muffs that are rated for use in airline transport industry. Given that deafness is a profound modifiable risk factor for dementia, I am putting my bets on absolute noise reduction rather than “noise canceling” strategy. It would be interesting to hear the perspectives of any audiologists and know if there is evidence pertaining to this. For now I am relying on common sense that what is out there on the streets is not normal.

[Sri Mummadi @MummadiSri]

The amount of plastic litter (strewn bags, plastic bottles, caps) in the so called elite high rises here in Hyderabad, India is a sore proof to this hypothesis. They wait for the workforce to clean this every morning only for the cycle to repeat. Absolutely no civic sense even in the so called “elite high rises”. The trash cans are a literal stone’s throw away. And then the outbreaks of Aedes epidemics every year with stunning regularity and equally stunning denial of such epidemics. Epidemic intelligence officers have traced dengue, chikungunya outbreaks to left over coffee paper cups strewn around in their surroundings. You walk around the playgrounds in the communities and you already know that the next generation has no idea about civic sense or environmental hygiene.

[Sri Mummadi @MummadiSri]

To be fair this slows down the unorganized rush towards the line. I am a frequent traveler and I have since some organization toward the queue - more like a proton-queue and avoids undisciplined cutting off. I do however agree that this is a stress test on one’s vestibular system and at the end you could have nausea or some people could potentially throw up.

[NEJM @NEJM]

Presented at #ASCO26:

Among patients with previously treated metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, the RAS(ON) inhibitor daraxonrasib led to significantly longer overall survival and progression-free survival than chemotherapy. Full phase 3 RASolute 302 trial results: https://t.co/xwLWBZYRzq

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[World Mosquito Program (WMP) @MosquitoProgram]

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Releasing Hope follows a young girl's journey from the shadow of disease - and it's also the story of our Wolbachia method, and why it works.

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