Do not go gentle: intractable value differences in hospices.

"Do not go gentle into that good night"--Dylan Thomas.

CAUSES OF INTRACTABLE SEIZURES IN A SURVEY OF 10,000 EPILEPTIC CHILDREN

Although treated properly for epilepsy, a number of epileptic children have intractable seizures and about 5-10 per cent of them do not respond to anti -epileptic drugs. In the years 1986-1996 about 10,000 epileptic patients were treated in the Children's Medical Center in Tehran. A retrospective study of their medical records revealed that 41 of them had intractable seizures. I Of these 4...

Survey Universal Design Criteria of Veteran Hospices of Tehranin 2016

 objective: Many of disabilities of handicaps is related to Inappropriate physical environment that by removing them can create an environment to response their needs. The universal design implies designing the environments in a manner that it is usable by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without the need for further adaptation. The aim of this study was to investigate Universal des...

What do hospices do? A survey of hospices in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland.

OBJECTIVE To obtain baseline information about hospice clinical activity. DESIGN Survey of hospices by postal questionnaire and telephone interview. SETTING 98 Hospices in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland of 111 that had a named matron or senior nurse, including 17 funded by NHS and 81 independent units. PARTICIPANTS Hospice matrons or nursing sisters in charge, to whom the ques...

آلوپورینول در صرع مقاوم به درمان: کارآزمایی بالینی دوسو کور

 Background: Approximately 5-10% of epileptic patients do not respond to antiepileptic drugs. Adenosine has an inhibitory effect on the nervous system and its metabolism is prevented as a side effect of allopurinol, a xanthine oxidase inhibitor. The current study evaluates the efficacy of allopurinol in intractable epilepsy.Methods: In this double-blind case-control clinical trial, of the 38 ep...