organ donation is an integral part of the health care system. many patients who have had an accident or have undergone a progressive disease are in need of an organ transplant and if they do not receive the required organ they would die. it is important to know that the most important source of organ donation is the brain death patients. it is highly essential to determine the pivotal factors t...

colloid cysts are mucous-filled masses with an outer fibrous layer. these cysts are rare developmental malformation and not a true neoplasm. they usually found incidentally and are asymptomatic; but in some cases may associate with rapid neurologic deterioration, herniation, and sudden death. recognition of this rare but important diagnosis may result in decreasing mortality. in this report, we...

introduction: it is necessary to have exact, complete and up-to-date information about death of people in a society. this information can be useful in planning, determining priorities, distributing facilities, allocating budgets and rendering health care services justly. in this study, the methods and rules about registration, completion, issuances and collection of death certificates in esfaha...

conclusions high temperatures and low humidity increased the risk of trauma deaths in our study. however, more studies are needed to document this. results the findings of this study showed that the overall mortality caused by trauma is higher in the warm season. the highest correlation between mortality and temperature was seen in ages over 60 years (r = 0.301, p = 0.020) in trauma deaths and ...

cancer is one of the most common diseases in the world. one of the important psychological factors in these patients is a death anxiety. so this study aimed to investigate death anxiety in patients with cancer in kermanshah. in this cross-sectional study that was performed on 101 patients with cancer that referred to the oncology department of imam reza hospital, we used templer death anxiety a...

caring of a dying patient is more convenient than a patient who knows his/her prognosis. according to pataica mcgorr once the dying patient compliance with the death, care givers can help him/her to overcome on fear of death.   continues reports show that most of dying patients agrees to know the truth. glaser and strauss named different tricks which patents make to know the time of their death...

background : human being is owned by god and is allowed to own him/herself and make a decision on his/her organs after demise, including the right of making will on using his/her organs in the case of death. methods: this study is a review of jurisprudential and legal investigation of the effectiveness of the muslim’s will on using bodily organs of the testator in iran. the findings that used, ...

the article provides the analysis of death rates in road traffic accidents in kazakhstan from 2004 to 2010 and explores the use of sanitary aviation.data of fatalities caused by road traffic accidents were collected and analysed. descriptive and analytical methods of epidemiology and biomedical statistics were applied.totaly 27,003 people died as a result of road traffic accidents in this perio...