Background: Today, various drugs have been investigated as the primary or complementary treatment for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). N-acetylcysteine (NAC) has used a mucolytic in pulmonary diseases. This drug apparently contributes to retrieval of intracellular antioxidant system. Objectives: study aimed determine efficacy NAC severe COVID-19 patients admitted intensive care unit (ICU). ...

The evolution of building codes typically produce design provisions that are expected to create safer and more accurate designs. We as engineers expect building codes to advance the state of the art with each successive edition. The 2009 International Building Code (IBC) and the Building Code Requirements for Structural Concrete (ACI 318-08) have significant revisions affecting the design of ti...

objectives the present study aimed to determine the effect of increased visitation time on physiological indices of the patients hospitalized in icus. materials and methods this clinical trial study was conducted in the icus of vail-e-asr hospital in arak city, iran. a total of 60 subjects were randomly assigned to the intervention and control groups with visitation time for 10 minutes 3 times ...

the objective of this study was to determine the frequency of microorganisms isolated from blood samples of patients admitted to intensive care unit (icu), and the rate of their resistance to common administered antibiotics in an iranian icu. one-hundred patients with systemic inflammatory response syndromes (sirs), hospitalized in icu of sina hospital, tehran, iran, were entered to this cross-...

background: cefepime was used as empirical treatment in ventilator-associated pneumonia (vap) induced by gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria. this study aimed to determine the antimicrobial susceptibility pattern of cefepime against microorganism causing vap in mazandaran, north of iran. methods: this study was performed on vap patients diagnosed with clinical pulmonary infection score (cp...

background and purpose: severity of illness scoring systems is used for the classification of patients to receive medical services, predict the risk of mortality, determine hospital bed occupancy, and assess treatment progress. in iran, these scoring systems are not frequently used due to the lack of knowledge of medical staff. this study aimed to evaluate the effect of education on the knowled...

This paper estimates reduced-form Phillips curves for Brazil with a framework of time series with unobserved components, in the spirit of Harvey (2011). However, we allow for expectations to play a key role using data from the Central Bank of Brazil’s Focus survey. Besides GDP, we also use industrial capacity utilization rate and IBC-Br index, as measures of economic activity. Our findings supp...