Introduction: Endoscopic examination of gastrointestinal (GI) system is a diagnostic and therapeutic instrument in children. Endoscopy usually encounters some difficulties because of intensive and spastic response of GI muscles during endoscopic examination. So this study aimed to assess the effect of peppermint essence on satisfaction of patient and therapeutic team during endoscopic examinati...

background and aims: anxiety is a common reaction when people encounter new problems where they do not know what expect. the nurses are responsible for assessing the patient and helping them with the procedure of endoscopy. this study investigates differences in anxiety level of patients who receive nursing process of orlando's theory prior to endoscopy examination compared to a control gr...

introduction: endoscopic examination of gastrointestinal (gi) system is a diagnostic and therapeutic instrument in children. endoscopy usually encounters some difficulties because of intensive and spastic response of gi muscles during endoscopic examination. so this study aimed to assess the effect of peppermint essence on satisfaction of patient and therapeutic team during endoscopic examinati...

Sedation with propofol is widely used for the outpatient examination. Although anaphylaxis to propofol is rare, there were some reports of anaphylaxis following propofol administration. We present a case of female patient under sedation for lower gastrointestinal endoscopy with possible propofol anaphylaxis. Then sevoflurane was successfully used for the examination and the following surgery. W...

UNLABELLED Only a few studies have compared the outcomes of patients kept awake during endoscopic examination and subjects submitted to drug-induced sleep endoscopy. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to compare the endoscopic findings of patients submitted to outpatient endoscopy and endoscopic examination with sedation by propofol based on the Fujita Classification. METHOD This cross-sectional co...

A total of360 Iranian combatants who were exposed to mustard gas by the Iraqi forces in the war fronts were studied. Acute effects and gastrointestinal (GI) complications of sulfur mustard (S M) intoxication were studied separately in Iranian combatants admitted to Imam Reza Hospital from January 1984, to May 198X, In order to record the clinical and paraclinical findings, a special examina...

aim : this study reports the prevalence observed in minimal standard terminology (mst) writing in three hospital endoscopy centers in tehran. background : in 1991 european association decided to recognize the minimal essential terms for preparing the endoscopy reports using computer software. these activities have led to the arrangement of mst. patients and methods : the cross - sectional study...

Results: Thirty four out of 53 patients of the study, underwent both endoscopy and US investigations, 9 underwent endoscopy only and 10 underwent only US examination. Fourteen out of 34 patients (i.e. 43%) had endoscopic findings of varices or congestive gastropathy and 15 out of 34 (i.e. 44%) had abnormal circulation around the spleen in the ultrasound examination. Among the 19 patients who un...