the effect of a ginger extract on gastric residual volume among mechanically ventilated patients who hospitalized in intensive care unit     hekmatafshar m [1] , bardigorchaei a [2] , amin gh [3] , vakili ma [4] , eshginia s [5] , sanagoo a [6] , jouybaril [7] *     received: 20feb, 2012 accepted: 9may, 2012     abstract   background & aims : delayed gastric emptying among mechanically ventilat...

What is unique and exemplary about the midwifery model of care? Does exemplary midwifery care result in improved outcomes for the recipient(s) of that care? These are the questions that the profession of midwifery grapples with today within the context of a changing health care arena. Exemplary midwives, and women who had received their care, came to consensus about these issues in a Delphi stu...

This paper addresses the problem of generating logic don’t cares in minimizing an Extended Finite State Machines (EFSMs). EFSMs have been proposed to model control oriented systems. A version of this, with the data portion modeled by Presburger arithmetic, has been used in formal verification. A structural representation of such EFSMs and an optimization scheme using multi-valued logic is propo...

Carboxylesterases (CarEs) belong to a superfamily of metabolic enzymes encoded by a number of genes and are widely distributed in microbes, plants and animals including insects. These enzymes play important roles in detoxification of insecticides and other xenobiotics, degradation of pheromones, regulation of neurodevelopment, and control of animal development. In this study, we characterized a...

Ontario and Quebec were the first two provinces to legalize midwifery, integrating the services into their respective healthcare systems. In both provinces, the pre-legislative periods were marked by intense debates between state-actors, medical health professionals, and midwifery supporters, debates which took place in discursive spaces which were shaped not only by the dominance of medical-sc...

BACKGROUND Caring forms the core of nursing and midwifery. Despite caring being an important emotional aspect of midwifery and nursing, there are general public complaints about uncaring behaviour in midwifery. Therefore, there is a need to explore caring from midwives’ point of view with the hope of identifying solutions and recommendations for midwifery practice. Furthermore, the study aimed ...

BACKGROUND Primary stability of cartilage repair constructs is of the utmost importance in the clinical setting but few continuous passive motion (CPM) models are available. Our study aimed to establish a novel ex vivo CPM animal model and to evaluate the required motion cycles for testing the mechanical properties of a new cell-free collagen type I gel plug (CaReS®-1S). METHODS A novel ex vi...

PURPOSE One among seven women will present with breast cancer for which major therapeutic advances led to a significant increase in survival and cure rates. During or after cancer treatment, severe complications may occur requiring admission in intensive care unit (ICU). Intensivists could be reluctant for accepting cancer patients in the ICU, and there are very few data about causes of admissi...