Indian Journal of Anatomy

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Organ donation is the act of giving one’s organs or tissues to be transplanted into another person. India faces a critical shortage of organ donors despite advancements in transplant medicine and better health care facilities. Lack of awareness, deeprooted myths, religious misinterpretations, and emotional hesitation contribute to the low donation rates. This paper explores the multifaceted problem through a cultural and emotional lens, backed by facts, religious insights, and real-life stories. It aims to spread awareness and proposes new strategies to increase organ donation in India and demystifies prevailing concerns using relatable analogies and inspiring teachings from mythology and religion. Emotional poetry, heartwarming donor-recipient stories, and myth-busting facts are interwoven to create a compelling narrative aimed at societal transformation.

Body preservation techniques are applicable since past because of most common cause religious motive. Bog watery environments are used as a natural preservation method because it inhibits bacterial growth.

 

We all are well known by famous mummies from ancient egypt, which are made by both the help of natural preservatives and chemicals and put in museums of this era in many cities since a long time and are well preserved, no putrefaction, no foul smell till now. In history before the introduction of chemicals (most frequently formalin), a technique was used to preserve anatomical specimens by injecting hot wax into anatomical specimens. Until the discovery of blood circulation, anatomical dissection without body preservation persisted. Initially in history. In educational purpose we also preserve the body since the past by various methods. Nowadays in medical terms this technique is known as embalming. Now a days we preserve anatomical specimens by injecting most frequently a chemical formalinandplacetheminaglassjar?lledbyadilutesolutionofformalin.

Background: Good Antenatal Care requires monitoring of pregnancy through meticulous history, examination and investigation. Ultasound is a non-invasive, safe, economical and easlily accessible test, routinely used to monitor Maternal and Foetal well-being. Vigilant obstetric care depends on accurate dating of pregnancy and timely interventions which are gestational age dependent. Gestational age is calculated from first day of last menstrual period to the current date (Naegle’s formula). Early pregnancy ultrasound using Gestational Sac Diameter (GSD) and CRL is accurate in dating pregnancy where a pregnant woman is not sure of menstrual cycles or the cycles are irregular.1 Sonographic Monitoring utilizes foetal biometry to study fetal anatomy through different parameters like Crownrump length (CRL), fetal bi-parietal diameters (BPD), head circumference (HC), abdominal circumference (AC), and femur length (FL) to determine gestational age (GA), fetal weight, and growth in different trimesters of pregnancy and to rule out the presence of congenital anomalies.2,3

There have been studies on BPD and assessment of gestational age, that have shown anthropological variations. Socioeconomic, demographic and environmental factors also play an important role in taking timely decisions which are dependent on correct gestational age

Aims and Objectives: This study aimed to ascertain correlation between BPD and gestational age in pregnant females visiting ANC OPD of Rural Health and Training Centre at Jawan, Aligarh.

Methodology: The study enrolled 100 consecuetive pregnant females attending ANC OPD of RHTC, Jawan, Aligarh. They had their routine antenatal ultrasound, which were assessed for the BPD data.

Inclusion Criteria: Study included pregnant females without any medical conditions that can complicate the pregnancy.

Exclusion Criteria: Refusal of consent, twins, medical disorders of pregnancy, congenital anomalies

Conclusion: This study was done in North India rural population with the mean age of pregnant females of 26 years. It showed a linear correlation between BPD and gestational age. BPD was found to have a positive correlation with gestational age especially in second trimester. The accuracy in predicting gestational age declines with the advancing gestation. Thus, ultrasonographic measurement of biparietal diameter can be used to used to predict gestational age in Indian foetuses.