Covering Tracheostomies Reduces Viral Spread to Health Care Staff

health‐caRe staff PeRsPectiVe

intRoduction Neither dramatic footage nor horrifying statistics from the most recent Ebola virus (EBOV) outbreak come close to reflecting the true impact of the EBOV disease (EVD) on affected countries, communities, patients, health-care workers, or their friends and families.[1,2] With focus squarely on containing the outbreak and dealing with the immensity of the task at hand, many fail to no...

Skilimix--new staff roles in health care.

Emotional intelligence and job stress of Andimeshk city staff and health care staff

Objectives: Stress is a common disease of the 21st century and one of the major causes of stress in life is job stress. The aim of this study was to investigate the situation of job stress and emotional intelligence and their relationship in Andimeshk urban health workers. Methods: A total of 143 health workers working in the headquarters of Andimeshk Comprehensive Health Center and Health Cen...

Impact of Community's Indifference to Spread of Coronavirus-19 on the Quality of Medical Staff Practice

With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemics, a huge flood of people rushed to medical centers, which severely affected working conditions of the medical staff. In this article, we are going to evaluate the reaction of health care workers to the rise of traffic, social gatherings, non-observance of mask use protocols and physical distance which lead to an increasing number of infected persons and d...

Revisiting the spread and covering numbers

We revisit the problem of computing the spreading and covering numbers. We show a connection between some of the spreading numbers and the number of non-negative integer 2 × 2 matrices whose entries sum to d, and we construct an algorithm to compute improved upper bounds for the covering numbers.