The McGill Pain Questionnaire (MPQ) consists primarily of 3 major classes of word descriptors -sensory, affective and evaluative that are used by patients to specify subjective pain experience. It also contains an intensity scale and other items to determine the properties of pain experience. The questionnaire was designed to provide quantitative measures of clinical pain that can be treated st...

  this study was carried out from October 1993 through November 1995(26 months).during this period 3472 patients(2743 male and 729 female) with long bone and/or pelvic fracture were admitted in different wards of Shahid Bahonar hospital of Kerman.based on the Gurd criteria,25 of these patients (24 male,1 female) were suffering from fat embolism sundrome(FES).incidence of FES in this study was ...

1DMD, MSc, PhD, Associate professor, Iranian Center for Endodontic Research, Iran Center for Dental Research, School of Dentistry, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2DDS, MSD, Associate professor, Iran Center for Dental Research, School of Dentistry, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3DDS, Iran Center for Dental Research, Shahid Beheshti Uni...

BACKGROUND Hyponatremia is a common disorder in patients with brain injury. It can result in acute and chronic complications providing this electrolytic disorder is not diagnosed and treated in due time. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of hyponatremia in 95 brain injury patients hospitalized in the intensive care unit (ICU) in Kashan Shahid-Veheshti hospital. ...

INTRODUCTION Although occurrence of cancer during pregnancy is rare, it leads to high morbidity and mortality in both mother and fetus. Recent trends in prolongation of child-bearing age have made cancer-associated pregnancies more frequent than past. As yet there are few documents concerning cancer and its related treatment outcomes during pregnancy. This study aimed at describing clinical cha...

BACKGROUND Growth of drug resistance is related to number of microbial characteristics, selective pressure by antibiotic use and social and technical vicissitudes that enhance the transmission of antibiotic resistant organisms. The aim of this study was to investigate antimicrobial-resistance of Escherichia coli isolated from children in Shahid Sadoughi hospital of Yazd. MATERIALS AND METHODS...

BACKGROUND Several studies have evaluated the stability of psychiatric diagnosis follow in readmission of patients in psychiatric hospitals. However, there is little data concerning this matter from Iran. This study is designed to evaluate this diagnostic stability of the commonest psychiatric disorders in Iran. OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to determine the long-term diagnostic ...

an adult (two years old) iranian cross-breed ram with alopecia, rough hair coats, thick and wrinkled skin,especially on the face, brisket, scrotum, tail and legs, presented with severe pruritus, poor condition andgeneralized unthriftiness. the animal was referred to the veterinary clinic of shahid bahonar university ofkerman. the vital signs and haematologic indices of the animal were normal. a...