background this study compared the health outcomes of abortion by vaginal misoprostol tablets and suction curettage in the first trimester of pregnancy. material and methods in this study, 220 pregnant women (under 14 week’s gestational age) who candidate for termination of pregnancy (due to fetal or maternal reasons) were divided into the treatment and surgery groups. in the medical abortion g...

Brunkhorst [12] 49/135 45/147 11.25 1.19 [0.85, 1.65] Iapichino [13] 3/15 8/19 2.64 0.48 [0.15, 1.49] He ZY [14] 7/31 15/35 4.97 0.53 [0.25, 1.12] Zhang [15] 1/152 4/152 0.82 0.25 [0.03, 2.21] De La Rosa [16] 54/131 48/127 11.81 1.09 [0.81, 1.48] Arabi [17] 6/43 10/45 3.72 0.63 [0.25, 1.58] Mackenzie [18] 13/59 11/51 NICE-SUGAR [4] 272/1111 222/1121 14.63 1.24 [1.06, 1.45] Farah [5] 3/10 8/11 ...

Background: Refractory peptic ulcers are in the stomach or duodenum that do not heal after eight to twelve weeks of medical/surgical treatment those associated with complications despite medical tssreatment. We herein present a case 44 year old man recurrent perforated duodenal ulcer requiring emergent surgical intervention.

the effect of hand care education on hand's functional disorders in burn patients  sadat manzari z [1] , mohaddes ardebili f [2] *, bozorgnejad m [3]   received: 24 aug , 2013 accepted: 5 dec , 2013    abstract   background & aims : hand burn is the common and considerable cause of chronic disabilities, because it mostly causes functional disorders as abnormal movements in the hands. the a...

We investigated how students’ surgical self-proficiency and self-confidence changed during the core clerkship to better understand students learn in operating room (OR), which receives mixed reviews as a medical student learning environment. Student demographics, self-rated ability perform set of proficiencies for common operation, OR were assessed at three clinical sites beginning end clerkshi...

  Background: There are challenges ahead of short-term hospitalization of low-risk patients hospitalized only for monitoring of severe disease who may die soon after admission. The purpose of this study was to suggest strategies for the management of ICU stay lengths and to ensure optimal use of ICU resources.   Methods: The study was conducted retrospectively on 246 patients admitted to 9 gene...

background: assessment is the process of systematic collection, analysis and interpretation of data to achieve the goals. the purpose of this study was to evaluate and compare the quality of educational activities of departments of nursing and midwifery faculty of hamadan university of medical sciences. methods: this cross-sectional study was done in 2009 at the faculty of nursing and midwifery...

1 Medical-Surgical Nursing, Jahrom University of Medical Science, Jahrom, Iran 2 Medical-Surgical Nursing, Jahrom University of Medical Sciences, Jahrom, Iran 3 BSc of Nursing, Jahrom University of Medical Sciences, Jahrom, Iran 4 Medical-Surgical Nursing, Faculty Member of Jahrom University of Medical Sciences, Jahrom, Iran 5 Community Health Nursing, Faculty Member of Jahrom University of Med...