background hyponatremia is a common disorder in patients with brain injury. it can result in acute and chronic complications providing this electrolytic disorder is not diagnosed and treated in due time. objectives the aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of hyponatremia in 95 patients with brain injury hospitalized in the intensive care unit in shahid beheshti hospital of kashan un...

background and objective:acinetobacter spp.a gram-negative coccobacillus is increasingly reported as important cause of nosocomial infections. multi-drug resistance (mdr) ofacinetobacterspp., raises concerns over our ability to treat serious infections with these organisms. the aim of this study was to determine the frequency and associated risk factors for infections with mdr acinetobacter spp...

background and purpose: organizational commitment has been on a downward trend among medical staff in different sections of the health care system. this study aimed to investigate the level of organizational commitment among the nurses engaged in the intensive care units (icus) of mazandaran heart center in sari, iran. methods: this descriptive-analytical study was conducted at the educational ...

background: neurocritical intensive care units (nicus) have been provided as new sub-special intensive care wards to give more special services for patients with acute neurology problems. as we know, there is no organized database about epidemiology of nicu patients in our country. population-based assessment (even in a small population) could be a starting point to achieve an insight about neu...

background posttraumatic stress disorder (ptsd) is a severe anxiety disorder occurred due to past adverse experiences. several researches have demonstrated that ptsd is quite common among patients discharged from critical care unit. conclusions prevalence of ptsd is high among patients discharged from icus and some medical individual factors such as elderly, unemployed, being single, using mech...

There are several S3-guidelines that focus on the treatment of patients after cardiac surgery published by the German Medical Association (AWMF). These high quality guidelines cover the areas of haemodynamic monitoring and postoperative cardiovascular therapy (S3), the management of analgesia, sedation and delirium in intensive care and prevention (S3), diagnoses and therapy of sepsis (S2k). Al...

Two major changes in patient characteristics and management occurred recently that demand distinctive alterations in the function of the intensive cardiac care unit (ICCU). These changes include the introduction of an early invasive strategy for the treatment of acute coronary syndromes, enabling early recuperation and shorter need for intensive care on the one hand, while the number of older a...

objective: cardiopulmonary resuscitation (cpr) has been known in its present form since 1960. different studies have reported variable outcomes among different countries. therefore, the purpose of this study was to assess the rate of cpr success and the survival rate in managing cardiac arrest among patients in an educational medical center. methods: this cross-sectional study was performed at ...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa background: coronary artery bypass graft is one of common cardiac surgeries which unfortunately accompany with some adverse events such as delirium. proinflammatory processes play an important role in pathogenesis of post-operative delirium. therefore, the effect of dexamethasone (dex) on post-operative delirium after cardiac surgery was evaluated. ...

abstract background: a newborn is highly fragile whose death can be caused by embryonic, intra partum, and postpartum factors. identifying the causes of death is the first step to be taken in order to decrease the death rate. the present study was aimed at finding out how neonatal factors and therapeutic actions affect death of newborn babies. materials and methods: this is a case-control study...