OBJECTIVES To assess preparedness for medical emergencies in private dental offices in Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). METHODS In this cross-sectional study, a survey was distributed to 70 dental offices and polyclinics in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia between October 2013 and January 2014. The questionnaire gathered information on the prevention of medical emergencies, the preparedness of the ...

Introduction
 Epilepsy is one of the common chronic diseases in childhood and puberty with a prevalence nearly 0,5%. The children epilepsy may suffer from such problems as school absenteeism drop-out. This study is, therefore, intended to determine frequency factors affecting it. 
 Material-Method
 ranging 12 17 years age, diagnosed for at least year department pediatric neurolog...

Relevance. Employees of medical organizations (MO), by virtue their official duties, are at the group risk morbidity a new coronavirus infection. Aim. Evaluation manifestations COVID-19 epidemic process and epidemiological effectiveness use Gam-Covid-Vac vaccine among employees multy-speciality organization. Materials methods. The incidence staff MO was studied for period from March 2020 to Dec...

Aim . To study the frequency of prescriptions various types lipid-lowering therapy and their effectiveness in outpatient clinical practice based on results a questionnaire primary care physicians. Material methods The was performed 2022 75 constituent entities Russian Federation with participation 1117 doctors working clinics. Most had work experience 10-20 years or more. Doctors polyclinics (t...

The Paper “Problems and needs of Georgia’s primary health care” discusses generally the role polyclinics ambulatory clinics in providing population with medical service also problems that hinder fulfilling this mission. It is underlined paper WHO (World Health Organization) recognized weakness care its inability to solve improve shortcomings as one perils global health. This means danger presen...

Studies showed that dentists and dental staff working with amalgam are chronically exposed to mercury that accumulates in their bodies in higher levels than those individuals not occupational exposed to mercury. Mercury levels in dental staff averaged at least 2 times that of control subjects in hair, nails, urine and blood. This study aimed to review long-standing mercury monitoring concentrat...

Cuba has developed a programme of quality improvement of its health services, which includes an extramural emergency care system in which polyclinics and general practitioner networks play an important role. Using routine health information from the decentralised first line emergency units (FLES) and from the hospital emergency service (HES) for the period 1995-2000, we evaluated the effects of...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the perceived social support systems`, and depression`s effects on attitudes regarding coping strategies for the disease in patients with epilepsy. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted on 182 epileptic patients who applied to the Neurology Polyclinics of the Faculty of Medicine at Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey between November 2011 and November 2012....

Mutations of mtDNA, due to their higher frequency of occurrence compared to nuclear DNA mutations, are the most promising biomarkers for assessing predisposition of the occurrence and development of atherogenesis. The aim of the present article was an analysis of correlation of several mitochondrial genome mutations with carotid atherosclerosis. Leukocytes from blood of study participants from ...