Stillbirth is a tragic complication of the pregnancy which associated with emotional, social and economic disturbances. can be result advanced maternal age, smoking, obesity, comorbid conditions, poor status, drug use during pregnancy, etc. Though evidences suggest number factors contributing to stillbirth, analgesics adds an extra burden for occurrence stillbirth. Every has its own set pros co...

The OBJECTIVE was to evaluate methods for the prevention of gastrointestinal bleeding in patients after endovascular surgery on arteries lower extremities critical ischemia. METHODS AND MATERIALS . study included 188 treated vascular department A. Polyantsev General Surgery Clinic Volgograd State Medical University obliterating atherosclerosis period from 2017 through 2021. RESULTS There a rela...

Background: Pain control is considered as the key issue in modern midwifery. Along with medical painkillers, reflexology is viewed as a non-medical and noninvasive method. Hence, we aimed to investigate the effect of reflexology on the intensity of pain and length of labor. Materials and Methods: In this clinical trial, participants included 240 Iranian primiparous women with term and singleton...

Objectives: The aim of this study was to assess the efficacy of aloe vera and green tea mouthwash for reducing pain after periodontal pocket reduction surgery. Methods: This randomized, split-mouth, double-blind, cross-over clinical trial was carried out on 45 patients between 25 and 50 years of age requiring pocket reduction surgery. Patients underwent bilateral surgeries in two se...

While social scientists often highlight the way medical technologies mediate biomedical hegemony, this special issue focuses on the creative and often unexpected ways in which medical technologies are appropriated by diverse actors in homes, clinics and communities. The authors highlight key insights from twelve ethnographic case studies conducted in North and South America, Western Europe, Sub...

This paper presents a prospective cohort study, where we explore associations between pregnancy, delivery and the global quality of life (QOL) of the adult child 31-33 years later. The data is from the Copenhagen Perinatal Birth Cohort 1959-61 using two sets of questionnaires send to 7,222 persons: one filled out by physicians during pregnancy and delivery, while the follow-up questionnaire was...

In contrast to physiological pain, pathological pain is not dependent on the presence of tissue-damaging stimuli. One type of pathological pain - neuropathic pain - is often a consequence of nerve injury or of diseases such as diabetes. Neuropathic pain can be agonizing, can persist over long periods and is often resistant to known painkillers. A growing body of evidence shows that many patholo...

CASE SUMMARY The patient was a 65-year-old retired Caucasian woman with good general health. In mid-March 2014 she had had a sudden onset of pain over the right lower back. She denied any history of trauma. Initially the pain was subtle, with severity scored at 2/ 10, diffuse, constant, aching in nature and not radiating. In the next 7 days, the pain had become moderate-to-severe. It was improv...

PURPOSE This study was carried out to compare the therapeutic outcomes and complications of the laparoscopic and the conventional open surgery technique used for treating rectal cancer. Another goal was to find the fastest and most accurate method of treatment for rectal cancer, along with establishing the advantages and disadvantages of the two surgical techniques, depending on cancer location...