conclusion generally, the studied hospitals were faced with a lack of nursing manpower and distribution of manpower was not appropriate. proper planning and management of manpower in accordance with the lack of personnel, compensates and achieves the standards required for hospital’s nursing manpower and this would lead to an increase in the efficiency of hospitals activities and can provide sa...

By the use of ultrasound, chemical analysis and histologic techniques, the knowledge of embryo and fetal growth and developments is increasing steadily.  It has been demonstrated that the fetus can respond to sound, bright light and touch. Accordingly, works on fetal responses to external stimuli during the third trimester may ultimately lead to improve­ments in the techniques of antepartum fe...

Having to cope with life-threatening injury or illness can be very stressful for children and their parents. In medical settings children—and parents—can be traumatized by various events both before and during hospitalization as well as during the rehabilitation-phase (e.g. for children: acutely becoming injured, painful medical procedures or unpleasant treatment by medical staff, having perman...

Tumour board contributes to providing better patient care by using a multidisciplinary team approach. In the efforts of evaluating the performance of the gastrointestinal tumour board at our institution, it was difficult to assess past performance due to lack of proper use of standardised documentation tool. This project aimed at improving adherence to the documentation tool and its recommendat...

THE ASYMMETRIC UNIT OF THE TITLE SALT [SYSTEMATIC NAME: 2-methyl-4-(4-methyl-piperazin-4-ium-1-yl)-10H-thieno[2,3-b][1,5]benzodiazepinium bis-(2,4,6-trinitro-phenolate)], C(17)H(22)N(4)S(2+)·2C(6)H(2)N(3)O(7) (-), consists of a diprotonated olanzapinium cation and two independent picrate anions. In the cation, the piperazine ring adopts a distorted chair conformation and contains a positively c...

OBJECTIVE The availability of weekly subcutaneous infusions of subcutaneous immunoglobulin (SCIg) provides an additional therapeutic option for patients with primary immunodeficiency disease. With proper patient education, individuals can safely transition to SCIg therapy and experience minimal side effects. RESEARCH DESIGN Case reports. RESULTS A plan for successful implementation of SCIg ...

severe allergic reactions during specific immunotherapy may occur in the treatment of hymenoptera sting allergy. the objective of the present study was to examine the characteristics of allergic reactions during specific immunotherapy in patients with allergy towards hymenoptera venom in the iranian population. a prospective study was performed using the clinical reports of 27 patients with ana...

background and aims : adverse drug reactions (adrs) are one of the major leading causes of death in the world. this study was designed and conducted because of the importance of adverse events in the cancer treatment setting and regarding this issue there is no study exploring adverse reactions of acute hematologic malignancy chemotherapy in iranian population. methods : this was a prospective,...