background& aim: substance abuse is associated with high prevalence of psychiatric disorders including mood disorders (especially depression), personality disorders and psychosis. the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of methadone and its result on substance induced depression-symptoms among iv drug abusers of kashan prison in 1384. method & materials: this is a semi-experimen...

BACKGROUND The mortality rate after discharge from the intensive care unit (ICU) (so called post-ICU mortality) has remained high (8.6-23.6%) during the past 15 years. The object of this study was to examine the effects of the severity of illness at ICU discharge assessed using the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) on the post-ICU mortality rate. METHODS A 6-month prospe...

AIM The aim of the current study is to assess the mortality prediction accuracy of circulating cell-free DNA (CFD) level at admission measured by a new simplified method. MATERIALS AND METHODS CFD levels were measured by a direct fluorescence assay in severe sepsis patients on intensive care unit (ICU) admission. In-hospital and/or twenty eight day all-cause mortality was the primary outcome....

INTRODUCTION Using physiologic scoring systems for identifying high-risk patients for mortality has been considered recently. This study was designed to evaluate the values of Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II (APACHE II) and Simplified Acute Physiologic Score (SAPS II) models in prediction of 1-month mortality of critically ill patients. METHODS The present prospective cross ...

Abstract Data stream processing has been gaining attention in the past decade. Apache Flink is an open-source distributed engine that able to process a large amount of data real time with low latency. Computations are among cluster nodes. Currently, provisioning appropriate cloud resources must be done manually ahead time. A dynamically varying workload may exceed capacity cluster, or leave und...

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sepsis constitutes an important cause of hospital admission with a high mortality rate. appropriate antibiotic therapy is the cornerstone of therapy in patients with sepsis. although numerous studies have recommended early antibiotic initiation in severe sepsis or septic shock stages of sepsis syndrome, its role in treatment of patients with sepsis who have not entered these stages remains to b...

conclusions the results of this study indicated that patients with sepsis had lower serum vitamin d levels than healthy controls. also, patients with more severe disease had lower serum vitamin d levels, but to evaluate causation and determine whether vitamin d supplementation could be effective in reducing the risk or severity of sepsis, randomized controlled trials should be conducted. result...

introduction: deep vein thrombosis (dvt) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in intensive care unit (icu) patients despite use of prophylactic anticoagulant therapy. the aim of the present study was to determine the incidence of dvt among medical and surgical icu patients. methods: in this cross sectional study, patients older than 18 years who were hospitalized in the icu of imam hosse...