background: considering the negative consequences of using physical restraints, we conducted this study to identify patients who are more frequently restrained in a psychiatric emergency ward as an initial step to limit the use of restraint to the minimum possible. methods: this was a retrospective case control study conducted in iran psychiatric hospital in tehran, iran. we reviewed the files ...

introduction: regarding the high rate of depression in our society, using anti-depressive drugs especially tricycle antidepressants (tcas) is increasing and poisoning by these agents has become more common than other drugs. due to its incident and dire complications we decided to study the treatment quality in poisoned patients with tcass admitted in emergency ward of arak,s vali-e-asr hospital...

Introduction: Abdominal radiography is an important method for acute abdomen cases and it is usually used to determine surgical approaches. This study was performed to determine the effect of abdominal radiography in the surgical approach among patients with acute abdomen attending the emergency ward of Rasool-Akram Hospital. Methods: In this comparative cross-sectional study, 147 consecutive ...

BACKGROUND Initiation of noninvasive ventilation (NIV) on the wards is not universally accepted. Medical emergency teams (METs) provide acute care and monitoring to deteriorating patients on the general wards. Whether it is safe for an MET to start NIV in ward patients with respiratory distress remains unclear. METHODS We evaluated 1,123 MET calls in 30,217 ward patients between January 2009 ...

Background & Aims: Diarrheal diseases are one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality in infants and toddlers in developing countries and Rotavirus is the single most important cause of severe infantile gastroenteritis worldwide. This study was conducted to estimate the frequency and clinical manifestations of rotavirus infection in children below 3 years old with acute gastroenteritis r...

background: there are some reports on the association between air pollution and myocardial infarction, arrhythmia, and mortality due to cardiac problems in susceptible individuals. we aimed to evaluate the association of air pollution and the emergency visits due to cardiovascular diseases, in a specialized heart hospital in tehran. methods: the study design was cross-sectional. patients admitt...

abstract background : occupational stress is a recognized problem in health care workers .nursing has been identified as an occupation that has high levels of stress. this study aimed to investigate the sources of job stress and the adopted coping strategies of nurses who were working in accident and emergency department. methods : in this descriptive survey ninety emergency ward nurses from th...