introduction: job stress is one of the main factors in decreasing productivity in organizations and the leading cause of psychosomatic disorders in personnel. since job stress of nurses working in intensive care units (icus) is considered as an important segment in health and medical systems, it significantly affects the quality of care and the nurse’s quality of life. to this end, the purpose ...

background: the purpose of the present study was to evaluate the inequality of geographical distribution of non-cardiac intensive care beds in iran using the gini coefficient. methods: the population information of iran's provinces in 2006 was obtained from the statistical center of iran and the number of non-cardiac intensive care beds (including icu, posticu and nicu beds) in all provinces wa...

Background and Aim: Vigilance is an essential element in intensive care nursing. This study was conducted to determine nursing vigilance nurses working the units of educational medical centers Ardabil, Iran. Methods: a cross-sectional descriptive-analytical with 192 ICU as participants. The data were obtained through questionnaires regarding demographic characteristics vigilance. SPSS software ...

INTRODUCTION The role of ICU design and particularly single-patient rooms in decreasing bacterial transmission between ICU patients has been debated. A recent change in our ICU allowed further investigation. METHODS Pre-move ICU-A and pre-move ICU-B were open-plan units. In March 2007, ICU-A moved to single-patient rooms (post-move ICU-A). ICU-B remained unchanged (post-move ICU-B). The same ...

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-...

In Mongolia, a Central Asian lower-middle income country, intensive care medicine is an under-resourced and-developed medical specialty. The burden of critical illness and capacity of intensive care unit (ICU) services in the country is unknown. In this nationwide census, we collected data on adult and pediatric/neonatal ICU capacities and the number of ICU admissions in 2014. All hospitals reg...

Background: Acinetobacte is the leading cause of pneumonia and sepsis in ICU ward. Accordingly, present study, antibiotic susceptibility pattern, presence, dissemination different classes integrons fluoroquinolone resistance genes were investigated among A. baumannii isolates. Methods: In this descriptive, cross-sectional during a period 24 months (2018 - 2020), 100 isolates isolated from clini...

concomitant use of several drugs by icu( intensive care unit) patients is often unavoidable. in these patients, pharmacokinetic drug interactions are very likely. the current study was designed to evaluate these interactions in patients hospitalized in an icu of a teaching hospital in tehran, iran. a questionnaire was designed and used to collect study data. the study was done in the icu of a t...