1. Article and photograph of Dr Britto: Goa Today Jan 2002 at
http://www.goacom.com/goatoday/2002/jan/spotlight.html
Headline: Doctor with a Mission
London-based topnotch Goan pediatrician Dr Joseph Britto was down in
Goa last month to catalyze the setting up of mobile intensive care units
for children in the State. Following his keynote address on Inter-Hospital
Transfer of critically ill Children at the 16th Asia Pacific Congress on
Diseases of the Chest, he tirelessly played the role of a motivator by
driving the players of the paradigm. A Consultant in Pediatric Intensive
Care at St Mary's Hospital, London.
Dr Britto led a study that found that the death rate of critically ill
children referred to the pediatric intensive care unit of major hospitals
in the country plummeted from 23 to 2 per cent. An alumnus of Grant Medical
College, Mumbai, he offers an internet related clinical decision system via
www.isabel.org.uk, which gives relevant differential diagnosis within
seconds once one puts in a set of clinical features.
2. Article and photograph of Dr Britto 17 June at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_2049000/2049248.stm
3. The web tool referred to is at http://www.isabel.org.uk/
Understandably, it is available for health professionals only. However, do
check the site for information about isabel.
Eddie Fernandes
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Frederick Noronha writes:
> >From IndiaCyberMed mailing list...
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>
> Anyone tried this?
> http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/324/7352/1478/c
> A paediatric online diagnostic tool called Isabel was launched at the Royal
> College of Physicians in London this week.
>
> The tool has been developed by a charity, also known as Isabel, which was
> launched by Charlotte and Jason Maude, whose daughter Isabel almost died
> at age 3 years of necrotising fasciitis as a complication of chicken pox,
> after it was missed by a series of doctors. The diagnostic tool was set up
> with help from paediatric intensive care consultant Joseph Britto at St
> Mary's Hospital in London, who helped to save Isabel's life.
>
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