background : medical operation is an anxious factor that causes physiological reactions in body which consequently increases respiratory rate, heart rate and blood pressure. the aim of this study is assessing the effect of reflexotherapy on vital signs of patients before coronary artery bypass surgery in shahid chamran hospital of isfahan. methods : fifty volunteer patients candidated for coron...

Transition from the role of passive student to medical practitioner begins with learning the first clinical skill. This transition can be stressful for those experiencing it and to some extent by those coordinating it. Logistically, it requires demonstration of the techniques to the entire class by a single practitioner or to smaller groups of students by multiple practitioners. The former redu...

For years it has been a matter of general agreement that there existed no such thing in English as a thoroughly satisfactory text-book upon diseases of the heart and circulation. There have long been special books to meet special requirements, but when asked to recommend some one volume for the use of advanced students or practitioners, it has been necessary to point out that all current texts ...

Several interventions are available for management of VPD. Using an approach of differential management based on differential diagnosis, VPD can be effectively treated in most patients. The current challenge for the VPD care team, however, is to resolve the signs and symptoms of VPD without exchanging them for a different but an equally or more morbid set of signs and symptoms.

The principle upon which this book is founded^ is unquestionably a sound one, viz., the interpretation of clinical signs and symptoms in terms of disordered physiological processes. For, of a surety, to him who knows his physiology all things clinical shall be added. No attempt is made to cover the whole field of medicine; as the author points out in his introductory chapter "it (i.e., the book...

This paper describes the development of a reliable multisensor data fusion system for monitoring patient vital-signs in the home. Initial investigatory work has taken place using ambulatory hospital patients, in the Oxford Cancer Hospital. Our monitoring approach is based on a probabilistic model of normality learned from a data-set of vital signs acquired from a representative group of high-ri...