OBJECTIVE Do newborns, children and adolescents up to 19 years have lower mortality rates, lower morbidity and shorter length of stay in health facilities where pulse oximeters are used to inform diagnosis and treatment (excluding surgical care) compared with health facilities where pulse oximeters are not used? DESIGN Studies were obtained for this systematic literature review by systematica...

Background  Apnea is one of the most common problems in preterm neonates. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of aromatherapy on the reduction of apnea, bradycardia, and Pulse Oximetry (SPO2) in premature infants. Materials and Methods In a clinical trial study, 60 preterm neonates randomly divided in two groups and exposed to aromatherapy with Rosa damascenes distillate or distilled...

background  apnea is one of the most common problems in preterm neonates. this study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of aromatherapy on the reduction of apnea, bradycardia, and pulse oximetry (spo2) in premature infants. materials and methods in a clinical trial study, 60 preterm neonates randomly divided in two groups and exposed to aromatherapy with rosa damascenes distillate or distilled...

The temporal distribution of soil nutrients is heterogeneous, and thus the uptake, storage and later remobilization of brief nutrient pulses may be critical for growth in nutrient-limited habitats. We investigated the response of photosynthesis and the major nitrogen (N) fractions in needles of 2-year-old Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco) seedlings to a 15-day nutrient pulse (c...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the incidence of ovarian failure after pulse cyclophosphamide treatment in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and to compare this with two control groups: SLE patients treated with azathioprine, and a healthy age matched population. METHODS All women patients with SLE treated with pulse cyclophosphamide in our department were identified and questioned concerning menst...

Objective: Pemphigus vulgaris, a fatal autoimmune mucocutaneous disorder commonly seen involving the oral cavity, has since a long time remained a topic of concern regarding its treatment modalities. Pulse therapy, introduced in 1984, employs high-dose corticosteroids along with certain immunosuppressive agents and has gained wide popularity since the last three decades due to its advantage of ...

The selective retina treatment (SRT) targets retinal diseases associated with disorders in the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE). Due to the ophthalmoscopic invisibility of the laser-induced RPE effects, we investigate a noninvasive optoacoustic real-time dosimetry system. In vitro porcine RPE is irradiated with a Nd:YLF laser (527 nm, 1.7-micros pulse duration, 5 to 40 microJ, 30 pulses, 100-Hz...

in present study we determine the zinc and lead levels in human blood samples by differential pulse polarography under optimum experimental conditions (ph=7.5, scan rate=5mv/s and pulse amplitude=50mv) the polarographic reduction peaks of zn and pb were examinedin the -0.72 v and-0.15 respectively. the zinc and lead content can be determined by in comparison with their standard solutions. accor...

in this paper data were collected from 120 farmers in north khorassan province for the two periods (2005-2007) in order to survey the role of rain-fed lentil risk profile for designing an insurance model. to evaluate looses of each risk, risk frequency, risk impact criteria’s as well as risk matrix were used. results showed that low risk was the largest risk area. during study period, a decreas...