background: a good proportion of poisoned patients treated at poisoning wards are elderly. this study was designed to evaluate the epidemiologic pattern of acute poisoning in elderly in hamadan, western iran. methods: in this retrospective cross-sectional study, poisoned patients aged 60 years and older treated at department of poisoning of farshchian hospital from march 2008 to march 2013 were...

background postoperative residual blockade, longer duration of action for neuromuscular blockade, and slower recovery were relatively common in elderly patients. objectives we aimed to investigate the safety of train-of-four ratio and clinical tests in the assessment of patient recovery, and to determine the effects of the rocuronium, vecuronium, and cisatracurium on intubation, extubation and ...

introduction: this study carried out to investigate the causes and motivations of older people residing in nursing home. methods: a qualitative description study was designed by choosing a sample of the elderly residing in a nursing home in tabriz, iran. based on purposive sampling, fifteen residents in the age range of 65-85 participated in the study. data was collected through unstructured in...

background: ethical issues are essential components in any piece of research. in fact, they ought to be considered during designing, planning and conducting each research study particularly among the vulnerable. the aim of this paper is to describe and explain some of the ethical issues and challenges faced by a researcher who carried out a research in three malaysian residential homes. materia...

conclusions high quality research is needed to establish the true portray for the prevalence and severity of vasomotor and sexual symptoms associated with distress in iranian women. context the aim of this study was to systematically review published articles reporting on the prevalence of vasomotor and sexual symptoms in iranian women. evidence acquisition five databases including medline, psy...

Deterioration of bridges in the United States has been well recognized. According to the FHWA National Bridge Inventory, one third of nearly 600,000 U.S. highway bridges are classified as structurally deficient or functionally obsolete. Since the majority of bridges were built using wood, steel or concrete, the same conventional materials have been used for bridge replacement or rehabilitation,...

Purpose To identify predictors of best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) in eyes with foveal-sparing geographic atrophy (GA) secondary to age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Methods Best corrected visual acuity (Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study charts); serial fundus autofluorescence; and near-infrared reflectance images of patients participating in the FAM (NCT00393692) and DSGA (...

abstract background: the loop colostomy is one of the most popular techniques used as a protective maneuver for a distal anastomosis and/or temporary fecal diversion. we are introducing the use of a full thickness skin bridge under the large bowel instead of a glass rod which alleviates problems such as protrusion of the large bowel, retraction of the bowel into the abdomen after removing the r...

This paper presents a case study of two students aged 14-15, as they attempt to make sense of distribution, adopting a range of causal meanings for the variation observed in the animated computer display and in the graphs generated by the simulation. The students’ activity is analysed through dimensions of complex causality. The results indicate support for our conjecture that carefully designe...