BACKGROUND Normal saline is commonly used for rinsing the abdominal cavity and many surgeons claim that it is not harmful to peritoneum. We found in patients treated with laparoscopic surgery, that mean 25% of the instilled fluid is not drained and dwells in the abdominal cavity. Therefore we evaluated changes of the saline biocompatibility during its dwell in the rats abdominal cavity. METHO...

background: the purpose of our study was to evaluate an inexpensive and available method to reduce mucous impactions in mechanically ventilated patients. methods: this randomized clinical trial was conducted on 40 mechanically ventilated patients aged 15-90 years. the patients were randomly allocated into two arms; 20 cases and 20 controls. the cases received n-acetylcysteine via their nebulize...

OBJECTIVES This study assessed the heart variability response to orthostatic stress during tilt table testing before and after normal saline administration. BACKGROUND The efficacy of sodium chloride and mineralocortoid in the treatment of neurally mediated cardiac syncope is attributed to intravascular volume expansion; however, their modulation of autonomic nervous system activity has not b...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of tap water (drinking water) and normal saline (sodium chloride solution 0.9%) iontophoresis treatment for a patient with idiopathic hyperhidrosis [Subjects and Methods] In this study, tap water and normal saline iontophoresis were used to treat a 21 year-old female who was suffering from severe palmoplantar idiopathic hyperhidro...

Methods Fourteen adult sheep (24-34 Kg) were anesthetized (midazolam, ketamine and morphine), mechanically ventilated and invasively monitored. A cecotomy was performed to collect autologous feces that were later reinjected into the peritoneal cavity through the abdominal wall to create abdominal sepsis. RL was administered during the surgical procedure. After baseline measurements, animals wer...

salinity is one of the abiotic stresses and exploitation of heterosis could increase the crop yield and extend the stress tolerance, especially in salinity stress. in this research, a set of full diallel design involving 7×7 crosses from cultivars including flat, bam, ghods, roshan, arg, kavir and pishtaz were conducted in a randomized complete block design with three replications under both no...

Lithium carbonate is a common treatment for mood disorders, but it has a very narrow therapeutic index and can be toxic to multiple organ systems. Unfortunately, many patients suffer toxic effects through the course of their therapy. We describe a patient with toxic effects from a high dose of lithium who was successfully treated with normal saline diuresis. We discuss the properties that make ...

Acute traumatic wounds occur when the body is subjected to a force that exceeds the strength of the skin or underlying tissue (Whiteside and Moorehead, 1993), and can be caused by a variety of mechanisms (Holt, 2000). Healing of acute wounds involves a complex, wellorchestrated series of events, resulting in a healed wound in a timely and orderly manner (Enoch and Leaper, 2005). All acute traum...

Thirty-three patients undergoing elective transurethral resection of the prostate were allocated randomly to receive either 0.9% isotonic saline 7 ml kg-1 (16 patients), or 3% hypertonic saline 7 ml kg-1 (17 patients) as a preload before spinal anaesthesia. After spinal anaesthesia, the incidence of systolic arterial pressure < 75% of control value was greater in the normal saline group than in...