Key words: health-care associated infections (HAIs); cardiac intensive care unit (CICU); pediatric cardiac surgery Copyright © 2011 Siddiqui et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Health-care associated infection (...

objective one of the prominent microorganisms in several reports of nosocomial infections is staphylococcus aureus (s. aureus) which is carried by several health care workers (hcw) many times throughout the day. the present investigation was conducted to assess the nasal and hand carriage rate of s. aureus amongst medical personnel of loghman hakim hospital's toxicological intensive care unit (...

Introduction/Objective. Nursing Activities Score (NAS) is one of the most accepted and widely used scores for assessing workload nursing staff in regards qualitative quantitative adequacy. The aim this study was to evaluate analyze cardiac surgery intensive care unit (CSICU) using NAS a contemporary set patients undergoing heart surgery. Methods. included 809 consecutive admitted adult CSICU wh...

conclusions the results indicated that suitable facilities and equipment, human resources, and infrastructure were available in the district hospitals in iran. these findings showed that there is potential for the district hospitals to provide care in a wider spectrum. results in this study, 100% of the studied hospitals had oxygen cylinders, running water, electricity, anesthesia machines, eme...