Volume 87, Number 3 www.aafp.org/afp American Family Physician 217 A 62-year-old nursing home patient presented with dyspnea. He had recently been discharged from the intensive care unit after treatment for urosepsis with multiple organ failure. While in the hospital, he required vasopressors and mechanical ventilation for more than three weeks. After discharge to a skilled nursing facility, th...

Bahaodoleh Razi Tarashti was born in taTarasht village of Rey (in northwest of present Tehran). He ended up the medical education in Rey and trend to practicing and learning medicine contemporary as spiritual guide of Noorbakhshi group. Although the birthday of Bahaodoleh is not clear exactly, bases on evidences, he probably has been killed in fractional struggle by agents of king Esmaeel Safav...

INTRODUCTION Psychological factors have always been considered for their role on risk taking behavior such as substance abuse, risky driving and smoking. The aim of this study was to determine the association between smoking behavior and potential personality patterns among high school students in Tabriz, Iran. METHODS Through a multistage sampling in a cross-sectional study, 1000 students we...

*Corresponding author: Dr. Asghar Mesbahi, Medical Physics Department, Medical School, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran. Fax: +98 411 3364660 Email: [email protected] Background: Prediction of the absorbed dose in irradiated volume plays an important role in the outcome of radiotherapy. Application of small fields for radiotherapy of thorax makes the dose calculation pr...

Poisoning by chloroform is of very rare occurrence, especially when it is drunk. The report-, of the following case has been taken from my friend. Baboo Girish Ghunder Chatterjee, SubAssistant Surgeon in charge of the Maharajah of Yizianagram's Dispensary at Bheloopore, in the suburbs of Benares. A jemadar, by name Jngmohone, aged 40, in the service of the Maharajah of Nattore, took about an ou...

Diffusion anoxia. By Bernard Raymond Fink. Anesthesiology 1955; 16:511-14. In 1955, Dr. Bernard Raymond Fink published his findings that described the mechanism by which hypoxemia occurred when nitrous oxide-oxygen anesthesia was discontinued and room air breathing commenced. Using an ear oximeter and brachial artery blood gases, he measured oxygen saturation in eight healthy patients who had r...