BACKGROUND Body Mass Index (BMI) is considered as an important risk factor in cardiovascular surgery. We designed a historical cohort study for the evaluation of perioperative complications related to BMI in patients who underwent off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (OPCAB). METHODS We studied 1120 consecutive patients who underwent OPCAB between January 2008 and December 2011 in Imam Al...

INTRODUCTION An accurate determination of body temperature in critically ill patients is a fundamental requirement for initiating the proper process of diagnosis, and also therapeutic actions; therefore, the aim of the study was to assess the accuracy and precision of four noninvasive peripheral methods of temperature measurement compared to the central nasopharyngeal measurement. METHODS In ...

Mutu pendidikan di Indonesia masih rendah, bahkan termasuk memprihatinkan. Rendahnya mutu bisa disebabkan sarana prasana yang kurang baik dan kompetensi guru. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mengetahui Kompetensi Profesional guru dalam Pendidikan Islam Perspektif Tafsir Al-Qur’an. Penelitian adalah kepustakaan (library research), dengan metode deskriptis analisis kualitatif. Peneliti mendeskripsika...

Application of psychological interventions is essential in classic treatments for patient with cardiac diseases. The present study compared cognitive emotion regulation strategies, positive affect, and negative affect for cardiac patients with healthy subjects. This study was a case-control study. Fifty subjects were selected using convenient sampling method from cardiac (coronary artery diseas...

BACKGROUND To investigate the role of sex and age differences in marital conflict and stress of patients who were under cardiac rehabilitation (CR) program. METHODS The data of this cross-sectional study were collected from the database of the CR Department of Imam Ali Hospital, Kermanshah, Iran. The demographics and medical data of 683 persons were collected from January 2003 and January 201...

one of the most sectarian suspicions arises aboutnahjul-balagha, is the suspicion of mentioning the al-sahabah (the companions of prophet mohammad).in this regard, many cast doubt on the authenticity of the chain of transmission, or isnad, ofsermon of ash-shiqshiqiyahto imam ali (as) and claim that it is really the work of the compiler. however, those familiar with al-radhi’s writings can easil...

Aims: Dialysis patients have experienced some degree of pain, especially foot pain. Some complementary interventions such as muscle relaxation are effective in relieving pain. This study was performed with the aim of assessing the effect of muscle relaxation on hemodialysis patients’ pain. Materials & Methods: This randomized controlled clinical trial was conducted on 90 hemodialysis patients o...