background and purpose: acute physiology and chronic health evaluation (apache ii) is a scoring system that describes and predicts the severity of acute illness in patients admitted in intensive care units. its application is helpful in therapeutic monitoring methods, comparing the effectiveness of treatments and the decision to change the treatment, and comparing the performance and quality of...

background candiduria is a rising condition among hospitalized patients and candida albicans is the most common recovered agent. however, non-albicans candida species (nacs) such as c. glabrata, c. krusei, c. parapsilosis, and c. tropicalis are also important. although most candida species especially c. albicans are sensitive to routinely used antifungals, an increasing trend in resistance has ...

conclusions these results show that maturity and birth weight are related to a decrease in the risk of developing a candidiasis infection. objectives the purpose of this study was to determine the rate, risk factors, and sources of colonization in low birth weight (lbw) and very low birth weight (vlbw) infants in an nicu. patients and methods all cases were classified in to 1 of 2 groups: lbw a...

background and aim: patients’ hospitalization is associated with family members’ anxiety. fulfilling family members’ needs such as providing them with information and helping them have physical contacts with their patients can alleviate their anxiety. this study was conducted to investigate the impacts of family members’ supportive presence in a neurological intensive care unit on their anxiety...

a bstra ct   background: continuous high - intensity noise in the neonatal intensive care unit (nicu) is stressful for premature infants and its reduction is considered as a nursing care. this study aimed to evaluate the effects of earmuffs’ use on the physiologic and motor responses of premature infants.   materials and methods: this is a clinical trial conducted on 64 premature infants admitt...

methods in a cross-sectional study, 164 adult patients who were admitted to the icu of a teaching hospital were screened for nasal and extra-nasal carriage of mrsa. in addition, the icu-hospitalized patients were evaluated for mrsa acquisition during their icu stay. results out of the 164 patients admitted to the icu, 12 (7.3%) patients were methicillin-susceptible staphylococcus aureus (mssa) ...

background & aim : this study aimed to discover the lived experiences of patients transferred from the intensive care unit (icu) to a general ward, to reach a deeper understanding of this phenomenon. methods & materials: this is a qualitative study with an interpretative phenomenological approach, which is conducted at hospitals affiliated to universities, and private hospitals of tehran in 201...

premature and critically sick infants frequently experience several interventions, including blood transfusions, parentral nutrition, and prescriptions during hospitalization that could affect the result of thyroid function test. this study aims to investigate the correlation between thyroxine level and clinical short term outcome among the newborn infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (n...

Newborn intensive care, a relatively new medical specialty, has recently become a very controversial one. It involves extremely complicated and expensive technology applied to cases of often uncertain benefit and considerable emotional investment. Many difficult issues remain unresolved, including whether newborn intensive care is an appropriate allocation of increasingly limited medical resour...

OBJECTIVE To review well-known aspects of exogenous surfactant therapy, and to discuss controversial points regarding the current state of research. SOURCES Review of the literature, using Medline and Cochrane Database Library, in association with the authors' experience in relation to exogenous surfactant replacement therapy. SUMMARY OF THE FINDINGS The main aspects of surfactant character...