54th AIIMS ANNUAL REPORT 2009-2010 ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES NEW DELHI 110029 54th AIIMS ANNUAL REPORT 2009–2010 All India Institute of Medical Sciences New Delhi 110029 Edited jointly by: Dr Sandeep Agarwala, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatric Surgery Dr S.S. Chauhan, Professor, Department of Biochemistry Dr Venkata Karthikeyan C, Associate Professor, Department of Otorhinolaryngology (ENT) Dr Nalin Mehta, Associate Professor, Department of Physiology Dr Peush Sahni, Professor, Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery Dr Pratap Sharan, Professor, Department of Psychiatry Dr Manjari Tripathi, Associate Professor, Department of Neurology Dr Rakesh Yadav, Sub-Dean (Acad.) and Associate Professor, Department of Cardiology February 2011 Printed at Saurabh Printers Pvt. Ltd., A-16, Sector-IV, NOIDA (U.P.) All India Institute of Medical Sciences The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) was established in 1956 as an institution of national importance by an Act of Parliament with the objects to develop patterns of teaching in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education in all its branches so as to demonstrate a high standard of medical education to all medical colleges and other allied institutions in India; to bring together in one place educational facilities of the highest order for the training of personnel in all important branches of health activity and to attain self-sufficiency in postgraduate medical education. The Institute has comprehensive facilities for teaching, research and patient-care. AIIMS conducts teaching programmes in medical and para-medical courses both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and awards its own degrees. Teaching and research are conducted in 50 disciplines. In the field of medical research AIIMS is the leader, having more than 1500 research publications by its faculty and researchers in a year. AIIMS also runs a College of Nursing, training students for B. Sc. (Hons.) Nursing and B. Sc. Nursing (Post-Certificate) degrees. Twenty-five clinical departments including six super-speciality centres manage practically all types of disease conditions with support from pre-clinical and para-clinical departments. AIIMS also runs a 60-bedded hospital and the Comprehensive Rural Health Centre at Ballabgarh in Haryana and provides health cover to about 7.7 lakh people through the Centre for Community Medicine. AIIMS AT A GLANCE 2009–2010 Year of establishment 1956 Teaching Departments and Centres 50 Medical graduates 2321 Faculty members (Sanctioned 629) 434 Postgraduates 7405 Non-faculty staff (Sanctioned 9198)7832 Nursing graduates 1690 No. of Undergraduate students 673 Publications in journals 1559 No. of Postgraduate students 1134 Chapters in Books/monographs 245 HOSPITAL SERVICES OPD Admission Surgery Bed (Gen.) Bed (Pvt.) Main Hosp. 1510430 70176 75751 1486 125 Dr. R.P. Centre 378194 30365 29534 280 21 Dr. BRA, IRCH 74,080 26,002 6,177 167 15 C.T. Centre 148227 11227 3772 166 14 N.S. Centre 106681 4083 2951 166 14 C.C.M. 138894 6436 1712 50 — JPNAT Centre 44456 5046 4307 30 — Average bed occupancy 80.7% Average period of hospital stay 5.5 days Net death rate 2.7% Infection rate (Crude) 8.69% CONTENTS 1. Director’s Review ................................................................................................................ 1 2. Institute Body, AIIMS ........................................................................................................... 5 3. Academic Section ................................................................................................................ 11 4. Examination Section ............................................................................................................ 26 5. General Administration ........................................................................................................32 6. Main Hospital ...................................................................................................................... 34 7. College of Nursing ............................................................................................................... 54 8. Research Section ................................................................................................................. 62 9. Departments 9.1 Anaesthesiology ................................................................................................................. 103 9.2 Anatomy .............................................................................................................................112 9.3 Biochemistry...................................................................................................................... 127 9.4 Biomedical Engineering ..................................................................................................... 141 9.5 Biophysics ......................................................................................................................... 146 9.6 Biostatistics ........................................................................................................................ 150 9.7 Biotechnology .................................................................................................................... 159 9.8 Centre for Community Medicine ....................................................................................... 166 9.9 Dermatology and Venereology ........................................................................................... 194 9.10 Endocrinology and Metabolism ......................................................................................... 203 9.11 Forensic Medicine ............................................................................................................. 212 9.12 Gastroenterology and Human Nutrition ............................................................................. 217 9.13 Gastrointestinal Surgery ..................................................................................................... 228 9.14 Haematology...................................................................................................................... 233 9.15 Hospital Administration ...................................................................................................... 251 9.16 Laboratory Medicine ......................................................................................................... 261 9.17 Medicine ............................................................................................................................ 276 9.18 Microbiology...................................................................................................................... 295 9.19 Nephrology ........................................................................................................................ 310 9.20 Nuclear Medicine............................................................................................................... 318 9.21 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance ............................................................................................ 323 9.22 Obstetrics and Gynaecology .............................................................................................. 333 9.23 Orthopaedics...................................................................................................................... 369 9.24 Otorhinolaryngology (ENT) ............................................................................................... 393 9.25 Paediatrics ......................................................................................................................... 406 9.26 Paediatric Surgery ............................................................................................................. 437 9.27 Pathology ........................................................................................................................... 451 9.28 Pharmacology .................................................................................................................... 472 9.29 Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation ................................................................................ 485 9.30 Physiology ......................................................................................................................... 491 9.31 Psychiatry .......................................................................................................................... 506 9.32 Radiodiagnosis ................................................................................................................... 517 9.33 Reproductive Biology ........................................................................................................ 536 9.34 Surgical Disciplines ............................................................................................................ 541 9.35 Transplant Immunology and Immunogenetics ................................................................... 556 9.36 Urology .............................................................................................................................. 566 10. Centres 10.1 Cardiothoracic Sciences Centre ......................................................................................... 577 10.2 National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre ................................................................... 617 10.3 Centre for Dental Education and Research.......................................................................