introduction: midazolam has turned into a common drug for pediatric procedural sedation and analgesia. however, there is not much data regarding its proper dose and potential side effects in the iranian children population. therefore, the present study was done to compare 2 doses of iv midazolam in this regard. methods:  the present clinical trial was performed to compare 0.1 and 0.3 mg/kg dose...

procalcitonin (pct) is a precursor peptide for the hormone calcitonin and is frequently increased in overt sepsis. the aim of this study was to test diagnostic accuracy of procalcitonin among patients with positive systemic inflammatory response syndrome (sirs) in identifying sepsis. in this cross sectional study, from 563 patients with positive sirs admitted through the emergency department of...

INTRODUCTION Public health agencies have been participating in emergency preparedness exercises for many years. A poorly designed or executed exercise, or an unevaluated or inadequately evaluated plan, may do more harm than good if it leads to a false sense of security, and results in poor performance during an actual emergency. At the time this project began, there were no specific standards f...

Cardiac arrest during pregnancy is a dedicated chapter in the American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care; however, a robust maternal cardiac arrest knowledge translation strategy and emergency response plan is not usually the focus of institutional emergency preparedness programs. Although maternal cardiac arrest is rare, the emerge...

A National Emergency Plan was set up in Italy after the Chernobyl accident, to cope with the following nuclear risk sources: accidents in foreign nuclear power plants or aboard nuclearpropelled ships, falling of satellites using nuclear power units, transportation of radioactive materials. Moreover, this plan gives the general requirements of the emergency preparedness and response to be implem...