Objectives: The scope of this review was various lubricants used to mitigate pain during urethral catheterization procedure and it was performed in order to review the published studies and to examine the data obtained from those studies in a systematic way. Methods: The study was performed through retrospective scan of related publications using the keywords “urinary catheterization (urethral ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness and safety of filiform needle acupuncture for poststroke depression, and to compare acupuncture with the therapeutic efficacy of antidepressant drugs. DATA RETRIEVAL We retrieved data from the Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure (1979-2012), Wanfang (1980-2012), VIP (1989-2012), Chinese Biomedical Literature (1975-2012), PubMed (1966-2012), Ovid L...

TOPIC: Critical Care TYPE: Medical Student/Resident Case Reports INTRODUCTION: One of the major complications diabetes mellitus includes hypercoagulability due to platelet hyperactivity, coagulation activation, and hypofibrinolysis. Acute hyperglycemia is hypothesized exacerbate pathway by enhancing activities factor VII, VIII tissue inhibitor. The prothrombic state observed in diabetic ketoaci...

abstract due to low spatial resolution or simplifying of some micrometeorological phenomena, atmospheric general circulation models are not able to give a good estimation for weather conditions over study area. so their outputs should downscale into weather stations scales. in this research data of hadcm3 downscaled by using lars-wg5 with three scenarios, confirmed by ipcc including a1b, a2 and...

background: excellence and quality models are comprehensive methods for improving the quality of healthcare. the aim of this study was to design excellence and quality model for training centers of primary health care using delphi method. methods: in this study, delphi method was used. first, comprehensive information were collected using literature review. in extracted references, 39 models we...

in the present paper, a 3d numerical model has been applied to predict the flow hydrodynamics around power intakes within the dez dam reservoir. the dez dam is a 203 m high, double arch concrete dam which is constructed by italians in 1962. since then, sedimentation in reservoirhas continued and since the dam does not have bottom outlet, the reservoir bed level is raising by a rate of about 2.5...

this paper considers the search problem, introduced by srivastava cite{sr}. this is a model discrimination problem. in the context of search linear models, discrimination ability of search designs has been studied by several researchers. some criteria have been developed to measure this capability, however, they are restricted in a sense of being able to work for searching only one possible non...