Background: Acute use of methamphetamine affects the sympathetic system and causes symptoms like tachycardia, hypertension (HTN), tachypnea, peripheral blood vessels constriction, hyperthermia, and mydriasis that can lead to many medical complications. Thus, this study aimed to evaluate the use of methamphetamine, clinical symptoms, and admission causes in pati...

Background: Laparoscopy is one of the most common surgical procedures. General anesthesia as the only suitable technique for laparoscopic procedures is a concept of the past. A problem with modern general anesthetics is that even though patients can be awake and oriented shortly after cessation of the anesthetic. There is growing evidence suggesting that regional anesthesia has an important rol...

In this paper, we define the notion of a bipolar general fuzzy automaton, then we construct some closure operators on the set of states of a bipolar general fuzzy automaton. Also, we construct some topologies on the set of states of a bipolar general fuzzy automaton. Then we obtain some relationships between them.

background and aims: aromatherapy means application of concentrated essences from different types of plants (such as flowers) for treatment of different types of diseases. aromatherapy works for stress, anxiety, psychosomatic problems, muscular and rheumatic pains, gastrointestinal problems, menopause and postpartum depression. the present study aimed to study the effect of aromatherapy on anxi...

background and objectives: patients experience moderate to high level of anxiety before general surgery. there are differences in studies on the effect of listening quran to decrease anxiety in general surgery patients. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of vaghe'a surah and its translation on the state - trait anxiety before general surgeries. methods: in this randomize...

introduction xeroderma pigmentosum (xp) is a rare autosomal recessive disease, which is defined by extreme sensitivity to sunlight and uv radiation and characterized by skin lesions and neuromuscular abnormalities. it is caused by a molecular defect in nucleotide excision repair genes. it has been reported that volatile anesthetics may cause genotoxic side effects or aggravation of the neurolog...

conclusions the results of this study demonstrated that spinal anesthesia increased the chance of fertilization success. results there was no difference between the two groups regarding demographic variables. 15 of 100 patients (15%) in the general anesthesia group and 27 of 100 patients (27%) in the spinal anesthesia group had successful pregnancy after ivf; so, spinal anesthesia increased sig...

objectives: the aim of this study was to assess the mental health of patients admitted in internal medicine, surgery and gynecology wards of imam khomeini hospital of tehran in 2009. method: the symptom checklist-90-r (scl-90-r) questionnaire was administered for 93 patients in internal, surgical and gynecological wards of imam khomeini hospital in 2009. result: in this study, the mean age was ...