background : in most iranian hospitals, the nurses in the wards prepare intravenous (iv) drugs and unfortunately pharmacists are not involved in this process. the severity of the patients in intensive care unit (icu) heightens the risk of errors. more over the frequency of using iv drugs in this unit is high, so we decided to determine the frequency and types of errors, which occur in the prepa...

The success/ul incorporation of the private practice of psychiatry into a Sl'stem o/communitv mental health care was allributable to several/actors. They included an affluent catchment area; support from hospital administ~ation and staff, private mental health practitioners. and a state-county finan ce program; and allempts to eliminate schisms that ha ve traditionally separated private and pub...

Three chemicals (luminol, f luorescein, and Bluestar) are photographically compared. The results demonstrate that Bluestar performs as well or better than luminol and f luorescein. Introduction Detecting and photographing latent bloodstains at a crime scene can be challenging. The ease through which a presumptive chemical test is prepared, administered, and viewed is the first obstacle. Photogr...

Parkinson 's dis ease is a slowl y progressive, neurodegenerative di sorder a ffec t ing one in 1,000 of th e gen eral population ; its in cid e nce increases with age , but the ca use remains unknown . The di sease is characte r ized pathologically by a loss of neurons fr om th e pigmented subs ta n t ia nigra par s co mpacta , and a tr iad of ph ysical symptoms of rigidity, tremor, and bradyk...

atopic dermatitis is one of the most common allergic diseases that almost always respond to conventional therapies with topical emollient, topical corticosteroids, systemic antihistamines and allergic abstinence. however few cases of atopic dermatitis with severe course do not respond to conventional therapies and high dose of intravenous immunoglobulin or cyclosporine are recommended for them....

introduction: acute idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (itp) is an autoimmune bleeding disorder of childhood caused by production of auto antibodies against platelets. the aim of the present study was to compare the efficacy of intravenous immunoglobulin (ivig) and intravenous anti-d(iv anti-d) in itp treatment. methods and materials: in a clinical trial, 43 children with acute itp referred to...

diazinon (dzn) is a synthetic organophosphorus (ops) insecticide widely used in agricultural and household applications. ops, particularly dzn, are highly lipid soluble liquids. intravenous lipid emulsion (ile) has been shown to reduce toxicity caused by some lipid soluble agents. we evaluated the antidote effect of ile on acute toxicity of dzn. twenty-four sprague-dawley female rats weighting ...

neonatal hypoglycemia is common and its prompt ‎management is important to reduce neurological sequelae. to determine the effect of two different glucose concentrations of intravenous (iv) fluid ‎therapy in the incidence of hypoglycemia in sick premature infants, 200 preterm infants ‎weighing 1500-2500 g were selected and randomly assigned into two groups. ‎group 1 received 10% dextrose in wate...