background: to increase safety of patients and staffs in hospitals, safety standards and regulations must be considered. this study was conducted to evaluate safety conditions in hospitals affiliated to kerman university of medical sciences.   methods: this cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted in various wards and units of four hospitals affiliated to kerman university of medical sci...

Capillary leak syndrome (CLS) commonly occurs in the intensive care setting. CLS is seen in conditions such as septic shock or may result from conditions such as multitrauma and pancreatitis, which result in the systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS). We present two cases in which both patients suffered with CLS, which we believe was caused following administration of granulocyte colony...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 crisis in family members of patients in intensive care unit following hospitalization make new needs for them. if these needs unmet, they will experience many stress and anxiety and their ability in coping would be decreased. this was a review article study. scientific database were searched and surveyed for collecting pap...

balo's concentric multiple scleroses (ms) is a rare demyelinating disease and a variant of multiple sclerosis. we report a case with interesting misleading clinical history and typical ri findings of balo disease. a 19-year-old girl presented with fever and left hemiparesis following dental procedure 15 days ago. on physical examination fever and left limbs forces loss were noted. on ct scan a ...

In this paper, we propose a Quality of Service (QoS) architecture for an end-system protocol-suite. We use TCP/IP using ATM as the networking paradigm, as a testbed to propose our QoS architecture. With the help of no-load condition, host-load condition, and network-load condition experiments, we identify the QoS perturbations caused in such an environment. We analyze these results behind the Q...

BACKGROUND The aim of a rapid response system (RRS) is to improve the timely recognition and treatment of ward patients with deteriorating vital signs The system is based on a set of clinical criteria that are used to assess patient's vital signs on a general ward. Once a patient is evaluated as critical, a medical emergency team is activated to more thoroughly assess the patient's physical con...

Venous or arterial air embolism may be a life threatening event. The condition is seen in many fields of medicine, including intensive care. We present a series of three cases of air embolism encountered in the intensive care unit, which demonstrate different pathophysiologies for air embolism in critically ill patients. We also review the literature with respect to aetiology, incidence, pathop...

BACKGROUND Rapid response systems (RRSs) aim to identify and rescue hospitalized patients whose condition is deteriorating before respiratory or cardiac arrest occurs. Previous studies of RRS implementation have shown variable effectiveness, which may be attributable in part to barriers preventing staff from activating the system. OBJECTIVE To proactively identify barriers to calling for urge...

  When patients are at high risk of dying, their families experience burdens such as decision making on treatment choices and concern about the patient's condition that can cause the families' psychological symptoms. The aim of this study was to assess the main psychological reaction of the patients' family members in intensive care units. This analytical study was conducted by using Depression...