Background The most common cause of admission to neonatal intensive care units (NICU) is respiratory distress syndrome. One of the respiratory assistance methods is using nasal continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP). Regarding the importance of pain control which is one of the major priorities in neonatal nursing care, this study aimed to evaluate the effect of body position on pain due to ...

background: the most common complication of hospitalization in intensive care units (icus) is infections caused by health care. although sepsis results in a small percentage of infections, it has a high mortality rate. intensive care nurses play a critical role in the prevention, early detection, and beginning of therapeutic interventions in patients with sepsis. this study aimed to review the ...

introduction fetal movement started at the 7th weeks of pregnancy and by the end of pregnancy will gradually be perfect and harmonious. near-term fetuses can discriminate acoustic features, such as frequencies and spectra, and process complex auditory streams. in this study, we aimed to evaluate fatal movement in response to music and vibration stimulation. materials and methods this study is a...

Intraperitoneal adhesions are frequently encountered and present significant challenges to the practicing surgeon, including increased operating time, bowel obstruction, pelvic pain, and infertility. Until recently, however, our knowledge of the biology of adhesion formation within the peritoneal cavity has been limited, which in turn limits prevention and treatment strategies for surgical pati...

We present difficulties in prenatal diagnosis and treatment in newborns with brittle bone diseases type II and III. It has been noted that skeletal dysplasia can be recognised with fetal ultrasound examination. The methods of osteogenesis imperfecta infant care in the first day of life have been proposed.

a survey on quality of life in hemodialysis patient care givers h habibzadeh1, msc h jafarizadeh2, msc y mohammadpoor3, bsc p kiani4, bsc kh lak5, bsc a bahrechi6, bsc received: 22 april, 2009 accepted: 27 july, 2009 abstract background & aims: quality of life is a major concept in family, and changes in health care systems needs families to take care of their chronic patient at home. the prese...

Background Prenatal care is a good opportunity for evaluating and improving maternal-fetal attachment. In the present study the effect of early education of fetal movement counting in the second trimester on maternal-fetal attachment was evaluated. Materials and Methods 52 eligible pregnant women were selected through simple sampling and then randomly allocated into control (n=29), and interven...