The overall management results after aneurysmal rupture were studied in 158 patients admitted to the hospital on day 0--3 and 175 patients admitted on day 4--7 following subarachnoid hemorrhage. In this series surgery was planned no sooner than 12 days following the ictus. Despite effective medical and surgical therapy overall results were disappointing: 3 months following the initial hemorrhag...

  Background and Objectives: The aim of the study was to determine the role and characteristics of nosocomial and community acquired Staphylococcus sepsis in admitted children in tertiary centers in Iran. Patients and Methods: A cross sectional descriptive-analytic study was performed since March 2008 to March 2009 in which all blood cultures from various admitted patients were checked for Sta...

COMPARISON OF INCIDENCE AND GRADE PRESSURE ULCER IN SMOKERS NON-SMOKERS ADMITTED TO INTENSIVE CARE UNIT

Background: Premature neonates admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) undergo sleep disorder due to various manipulations. The present study aimed to investigate the effect of clustered nursing care on sleep behaviors in premature neonates admitted to NICUs. Methods: This clinical trial study was conducted on 60 neonates sel...

Abstract Background The aim of this work were to investigate the rate and aetiology bloodstream infection collected from COVID non-COVID patients admitted in ICU Methods A retrospective cohort study was conducted on PCR Covid-19 positive 20th March 30th April 2020. Corresponding data same period 2019 all consecutive retrospectively reviewed for presence microbiologically documented infections a...

S everal prior studies have shown that patients with diabetes mellitus have worse in-hospital outcomes compared to non-diabetic patients when admitted for an acute myocardial infarction (MI). 2 Few studies have examined this same issue among patients admitted across the entire spectrum of acute coronary syndromes (ACS) (unstable angina, non-ST elevation MI, ST elevation MI). 4 Since patients ad...

Background: Firoozgar Comprehensive Stroke Center started up as the first organized care unit in the country in 2014; this study was performed to investigate quality indicators such as reduction in mortality, morbidity and hospital stay.   Methods: Two groups of ischemic stroke patients were compared. The first group had been admitted in general neurology ward (non-stroke unit patients)...

BACKGROUND No previous study has evaluated the association between admission to ICUs during round time and patient outcome. The objective of this study was to determine the association between round-time ICU admission and patient outcome. METHODS This retrospective study included 49,844 patients admitted from October 1994 to December 2007 to four ICUs (two surgical, one medical, and one multi...