The objective of this study was to evaluate the hemodynamics of the anesthetic isoflurane in healthy cats given angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor (ACEI). The 7 healthy young cats and 3 old cats were received placebo or enalapril 0.5 mg/kg orally. The change in systolic arterial pressure from the baseline to 30 min postanesthesia in the ACEI group was significantly higher than in the place...

Material and methods: Sixty male patients (ASA I and II) undergoing varicocelectomy and testicular sperm extraction (TESE) with standard laryngeal mask airway (LMA) anesthesia were randomly divided into two groups. Patients in Group I (n=30) received 50 mg of dexketoprofen trometamol iv before induction, whereas patients in Group II (n=30) received saline. All patients received standard LMA ane...

Postanesthesia discharge decision making is a challenging process due to the high complexity and variability of care provided to postoperative patients. We built an ontology-based decision support system that generates discharge recommendations for patients who have undergone surgical procedures. Discharge decisions are made based on patient vitals, symptoms, medical history and details of the ...

background: considering the school nursing standards, which is the most important and vital element of the school health team, can be a fundamental step toward solving the current and future problems of the school and society health. the present research was done with the goal of determining the current situation of the standard of the school health nursing process in elementary schools of kerm...

conclusions nursing process indicators can be used to audit nursing care. such audits can be used as quality assurance tools. results the compliance rate of nursing process indicators was 79.71 ± 0.87. mean compliance scores did not significantly differ by education level and gender. however, overall compliance scores were correlated with nurses’ age (r = 0.26, p = 0.001) and work experience (r...

background in recent decades, health care systems has greatly influenced by the technology development. the technology is helpful to enhance quality of care, reduce costs and improve patient care if appropriate training be applied for technology users. technology user’s training has been studied in some quantitative studies; however, a few investigators have studied the challenges which nurses’...

aims: endotracheal suctioning is a vital process to keep the airways open. the method of performing endotracheal suctioning has a great effect on its complications and effectiveness. this study was carried out with the aim of assessing gap between the knowledge and performance of nurses' working in intensive care units (icu) in tracheal suctioning.   methods: in this cross sectional study,...

context:  the ability to think critically is an essential element in nursing education and ‎more specifically in nurses’ clinical decision making (cdm).‎ aims:  critical thinking (ct) and cdm ability as well as their relationship were ‎examined among nursing students of kerman university.‎ settings and design: study was designed in four towns: kerman, bam, jiroft, and zarand, ‎settled in kerman...

background: clinical learning is one of the important issues that helps the perception of nursing students’ practice in a clinical setting and its effect on their professional development. the aim of this study is to describe and state the manner of clinical learning in nursing students. materials and methods: this qualitative study was conducted as a grounded theory. the individual semi-struct...

background: enhancing nursing students’ critical thinking is a challenge faced by nurse educators. this study aimed at determiningthe effect of clinical concept mapping on discipline-based critical thinking of nursing students. materials and methods: in this quasi-experimental post-test only design, a convenient sample of 4th year nursing students (n = 32)participated. they were randomly divide...