BACKGROUND "Code blue" events and related resuscitation efforts involve multidisciplinary bedside teams that implement specialized interventions aimed at patient revival. Activities include performing effective chest compressions, assessing and restoring a perfusing cardiac rhythm, stabilizing the airway, and treating the underlying cause of the arrest. While the existing critical care literatu...

OBJECTIVES Workplace injuries are of concern in adolescent and child workers. The factors of such injuries are important for injury prevention. This study explored the predictors of injury in such workers. METHODS This study was carried out in stone quarries and included 147 children and adolescent workers (81 males and 66 females). The mean age of the subjects was 11.3 years. An interviewer-...

BACKGROUND Since 2010, French companies must integrate or retain seniors to avoid a fine of 1% of their payroll. OBJECTIVE This work examines how to integrate the aging of employees into occupational health policies. METHODS The literature on the complex relationships between age, work and health has been reviewed, and the feasibility of potential actions has been addressed. RESULTS In th...

Background: Due to the increasing number of stressful life events among the elderly and the rapid spread of diabetes among them, the present study compared the stressful life events of diabetic elderly with those of non-diabetic elderly. Materials and Methods: This descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted on 240 senior citizens of over 60 years of age (120 diabetic patients and 120 n...

Background and aims: Many workers face significant hazardous workplace exposures, especially indeveloping countries. The objective of this study was to investigate the prevalence of occupational riskfactors and common occupational diseases in Kerman.Methods: This study was based on data from occupational risk factor and disease monitoring systemsavailable at Kerman Provi...

OBJECTIVE To explore the nature of professional stress and the strategies used by family physicians to deal with this stress. DESIGN Qualitative study. SETTING Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont. PARTICIPANTS Ten key-informant family physicians. METHODS In-depth interviews were conducted with key informants. A total of 40 key informants were identified, based on selected criteria; 24 provided cons...

introduction: medical professionals are often under the influence of stress due to the responsibility of providing patients with comfort and care.  working conditions in hospitals create much stress and anxiety and can affect the health of staff, especially the nurses.  this study was designed to investigate the job stressors of nursing personnel in the emergency wards of zahedans’ hospitals du...

background: emergency department staffs and emergency medicine personnel in particular are exposed to various occupational stresses (psychological traumas). there is little information about the possibility and rate of post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd) among the emergency medicine personnel in iran and the world. this study deals with the ptsd prevalence and the influencing factors among th...