conclusions in order to diminish the health impacts of particulate matter in khorramabad, health training for the public, especially for persons with chronic lung and heart diseases, the elderly, and children, should be conducted by health systems to encourage them to reduce their activities during dusty days. materials and methods the pm10 sampling was carried out with a high-volume sampler at...

Statement of Purpose To guide the practice of the Licensed Practical Nurse, Registered Nurse and Advanced Practice Registered Nurse in promoting patient access to the appropriate, therapeutic and effective assessment, diagnosis and management of acute and chronic pain. Such pain assessment and management serves to improve the quality of life for those patients who suffer from pain as well as to...

Cryptosporidiosis, a protozoal disease which causes significant morbidity in humans, is one of the chief causes of diarrhoea in neonatal ruminants. although the parasite poses a significant threat to public health and animal health in Ireland, its epidemiology on the island is only poorly understood. Environmental studies have shown the waterborne parasite to be widespread in some untreated wat...

Acute right heart syndrome is a sudden deterioration in right ventricular performance, resulting in right ventricular failure and confers significant in-hospital morbidity and mortality. In critically ill patients, the syndrome is often undiagnosed and untreated, as these patients do not usually exhibit the common clinical manifestations of the condition, making the diagnosis challenging for th...

Worldwide, Chlamydia trachomatis infections rank among the most common sexually transmitted infections (STI), and cause notable reproductive morbidity in women. Although advances in highly accurate and non-invasive diagnostic testing have allowed for better estimation of the burden of disease-especially the asymptomatic state-we still lack a true point-of-care test, and many infections go undet...

Sinusitis and otitis are common within the pediatric population. If left untreated, these can extend intracranially and lead to the development of infections in the various intracranial compartments resulting in a high rate of morbidity and mortality. We report the first case of an intrafalcine empyema, absent subdural purulence, in a patient with the likely spread from a sinogenic origin. This...

Recent studies associate SAHS with higher cardiovascular morbidity-mortality and we know that even today SAHS continues to be under-diagnosed. This under-diagnosis, signifies, on the one hand, a lowering or loss of health, and on the other, an increase in costs, since it has been demonstrated that patients with undiagnosed or untreated SAHS are higher consumers of health service resources and h...

The Nebraska Board of Medicine and Surgery recognizes that principles of quality medical practice dictate that the people of the State of Nebraska have access to appropriate and effective pain relief. The appropriate application of up-to-date knowledge and treatment modalities can improve the quality of life for those patients who suffer from pain, as well as reduce the morbidity and costs asso...

INTRODUCTION Although the majority of patients with primary hyperparathyroidism have a relatively asymptomatic benign disorder, there are patients who have a more aggressive disorder. CLINICAL PICTURE We report a case of primary hyperparathyroidism presenting during pregnancy complicated by antepartum haemorrhage and severe prematurity. The diagnosis was made postpartum, when her problems rap...

Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is common psychiatric morbidity among earthquake survivors, and if untreated people suffer from it for years. Government of Nepal and NGOs provided various short-term mental health services to the victims of the 2015 earthquake in Nepal, but there was no plan or provision for long-term mental health problems. The prevalence of PTSD following natural disaste...