BACKGROUND The spleen is amongst the most vulnerable organs which are easily injured in abdominal trauma. Nowadays, blunt trauma is the most prevalent indication of splenectomy. OBJECTIVES We conducted this study to determine the pattern of indications for open splenectomies carried out during the past five years in Shahid-Beheshti hospital, a central hospital in Kashan, Iran. PATIENTS AND ...

BACKGROUND Respiration management is an important and critical issue in prehospital transportation phase of multiple trauma patients. However, the quality of this important care has not been assessed in Iran Emergency Medical Services' (EMS). OBJECTIVES This study was conducted to investigate the quality of prehospital respiration management in patients with multiple trauma, referred to the S...

introduction: this is a descriptive study to study the conditions of hospital libraries at iran ,tehran and shahid beheshti university of medical sciences and compares the staff, printing sources, services and physical situations with “standards for hospital libraries 2002” and “standard of educational and treatment center library collection”. methods: this survey has been done on 35 hospital l...

BACKGROUND Psoriasis is a common inflammatory papulosquamous disease of the skin with unknown aetiology that may be associated with the abnormal T-cell function. AIM This study was aimed to determine the prevalence of oral mucosal lesions and their associations with severity of psoriasis in psoriatic patients attending the dermatologic clinic of Shahid Beheshti Teaching Hospital at Kashan, Ir...

roy adaptation model in hemodialysis patients: a mixed method research hassani p[1]*, otaghi m[2] received: 17 may, 2012 accepted: 13aug, 2012 abstractbackground & aims: ram is used in ersd patients. nurses play important role in their adaptation. the goal of the study is to explain the adaptive and ineffective responses of hemodialysis patients based on ram in qualitative part, and to compare ...

Contamination of human and animal body tissues with flies' larvae and diptera cause myiasis. A 26 yr old female patient refers to Kashan Shahid Beheshti Hospital, central Iran because of urogenital infection, pain in the right part of stomach, smelly and reddish vaginal discharge and frequent urination. In the first checking, urine sample was taken. In the sample, active and alive larvae were s...

Background: Coding errors lead to incorrect classification of diseases and thus severely affect health care planning epidemiological research. Objectives: This study aimed investigate the factors affecting clinical coding errors. Methods: descriptive was conducted in 2020 2 stages. In first stage, a questionnaire developed by examining relevant resources, documents, articles. The questionnaire’...

the effect of massage therapy on the physiologic index of the patiants hospitalized at different intensive care units of shahid beheshti university of medical sciences       zolriasatain f [1] *, bahraini s [2] , hariri gh [3] , khoda karim s [4]     received: 4 dec , 2012 accepted: 18 feb , 2013       abstract:   background & aims : massage therapy is one of the appropriate methods of reducing...

To assess men's educational needs to improve their involvement in perinatal care we carried out a descriptive, cross-sectional study on 400 women seeking perinatal care in Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences hospitals and 400 men who were accompanying them. Participants were recruited using a quota sampling method. A questionnaire was used to collect information on demography, men's ...