context studies show that despite the role of mouth care in preventing ventilator-associated pneumonia, there is no high quality evidences for it. this study reviewed the literature related to mouth care in patients receiving mechanical ventilation. evidence acquisition pubmed, ovide, elsevier, proquest, iranmedex, sid, and magiran databases were searched using key terms such as oral care, mout...

conclusions closed suction caused fewer disturbances in patients’ hemodynamic condition, took shorter time, and is more economical. therefore, this method can replace open suction method in caring of severely critically ill patients. results no significant differences were observed between the two suctioning methods in terms of mean systolic blood pressure (p = 0.075), diastolic blood pressure ...

background: patients undergone mechanical ventilation need rapid and reliable evaluation of their respiratory status. monitoring of end-tidal carbon dioxide (etco2) as a surrogate, noninvasive measurement of arterial carbon dioxide (paco2) is one of the methods used for this purpose in intubated patients. objectives: the aim of the present trial was to study the relationship between end-tidal c...

results there were 80 successful and 44 unsuccessful as well as 72 successful and 8 unsuccessful weaning cases in the first and second phase of the study, respectively. the area under the roc curves for iwi was 0.967, with standard error of 0.020, 95% confidence interval of 0.899 to 0.993 and significance level of p = 0.001, se = 94.59, sp = 66.67, ppv = 97.22, npv = 50, da = 92.5 and likelihoo...

background ventilator-associated pneumonia (vap) develops in mechanically ventilated patients 48 hours after putting the patients on the ventilator. vap is the second most common nosocomial infection in neonatal intensive care units (nicu). objectives the current study was conducted to determine the rate, microbiological characteristics and outcome of vap in neonates admitted in the nicu of sho...

lowering the arms gave still less favourable results. Howard's direct method of alternately compressing the lower chest wall by the spread hands and letting go sharply was found to cause a much larger air entry, but still below the normal; but it is conducted in the supine attitude which, in many cases, as in drowning, prevent other useful indications from being fulfilled and is sometimes subje...

patients and methods a cross-sectional study was conducted at icus of imam-reza and vali-asr hospitals, birjand, iran. sampling was done through a census in which 53 icu nurses participated. descriptive statistics, kolmogorov-smirnov test, mann-whitney u tests and kendall's correlation coefficient were used to analyze the data. results a total of 53 nurses participated in this study. most of th...