General Surgery and Anaesthesia

A new test for distinguishing direct and indirect inguinal hernia:

JS Vaidya.

Comtemp Surg Apr 1996. 48 (4): 225. PDF            

A simple fail-proof test especially useful for the clinical viva exam!

(Letter) Diastolic blood pressure can be reliably recorded by palpation:

JS Vaidya. SJ Vaidya

Arch Int  Med. 22 July 1996; 156: 1586.  

A new way to record blood pressure without a stethoscope!

A new noose type non-slip surgical knot that can be tied by one hand :

JS Vaidya. Comtemp Surg. Nov 1996. 49 (5): 294. PDF

Omission of Nitrous oxide during anaesthesia reduces the incidence of post-operative nausea and vomiting: A meta-analysis

J Divetia, JS Vaidya, RA Badwe, R Hawaldar:

Anesthesiol. Nov 1996;85(5):1055-62 PubMed, Abstract

(Letter) Minor-injury chores by junior doctors or nurse practitioners.

JS Vaidya

The Lancet 15 Jan 2000;355:229 WWW, HTML, PDF.

When will  doctors learn to treat minor injuries?

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(Letter) Re: "Safety valve" effect of spanking.

Jayant S Vaidya

BMJ 31 Jan 2000  http://bmj.com/cgi/eletters/320/7230/261#6474

Following the same logic, could I suggest it should be legal and socially acceptable that one should have the right and duty to spank one's colleagues and other adults who are irritating? As a structured "safety valve"..!!! :^)

(Letter)People cannot compute (more good- less bad = good press).

Jayant S Vaidya, Sucheta J vaidya.

BMJ 31 Oct 2001 http://bmj.com/cgi/eletters/323/7316/782#17264

Clinical Picture: Gall Stone Ileus.

JS Vaidya, O Lalude, D Grant, H Mukhtar.

The Lancet. Accepted April 2002 published 4 Oct 2003;362-1105 .WWWPDF, WWWHTML, PDF

(Letter) The randomised study to test whether addition of ondansetron to droperidol reduces postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) after laparoscopic cholecystectomy was underpowered - Comment on “A Comparison of the Effects of Droperidol and the Combination of Droperidol and Ondansetron on Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting for Patients Undergoing Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy”

J S Vaidya

J Clin. Anaesthesia, Nov 2003: 15:570 PDF

Playstation Thumb Vaidya HJ (age 9) c/o Vaidya JS

The Lancet 2004 Mar 27;363(9414):1080.

Full description of a modern disease- aetiology, pathogenesis and treatment and joy in the unedited words of a 9 year old!  PDF

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Junior Doctors should have a parallel postgraduate student contract

Jayant S. Vaidya

Int J Surgery 2007 Aug;5(4):289. Epub 2006 Jul 3 doi:10.1016/j.ijsu.2006.05.015 PDF

A stitch in time did not save nine- because “it was not my field”- a case of bleeding ileostomy -

Faisal Alem, Fera Mansor and Jayant S Vaidya.

Int J Surgery.  2007 Oct;5(5):371. Epub 2006 Aug 17

(Book review) Recent advances in Surgery -28.

Jayant S Vaidya and Samuele Massarut

The Surgeon, 2006;4(2):119 PDF

Delay from symptom onset increases the conversion rate in laparoscopic cholecystectomy for acute cholecystitis

Sirwan M Hadad, Jayant S Vaidya, Lee Baker, Hoey C Koh, Timothy P Heron, Alastair M Thompson

W J Surgery (Epub 5 May 2007) June 2007; 31:1298–1301

 doi:10.1007/s00268-007-9050-2   PDF author version   PubMed abstract  Commentary on this article in the same issue