this descriptive study was aimed to identify how provided nursing care related to physical problems caused by traction and cast in patients with fracture and dislocation in cervical spinal cord in educational hospitals of tehran university of medical sciences. samples, including 46 patients were recruited from neurosurgery and orthopedic wards, and also from neurosurgical intensive care units d...

background: the aim of this study is comparing acth changes in epidural and intravenous analgesia technique after lower limb orthopedic surgery.methods: in a randomized clinical trial in hazrat rasool  akram hospital during 1387-88 , 60 patients candidate for surgery on the lower extremities were randomly allocated to receive either postoperative analgesia  with epidural analgesia (pcea) or iv ...

background: postoperative pain is a common side effect following surgery that can significantly reduce surgical quality and patient’s satisfaction. treatment options are morphine and buprenorphine. we aimed to compare the efficacy of a single dose of intravenous morphine with sublingual buprenorphine in postoperative pain control following closed reduction surgery. methods: this triple blind cl...

PředloĹženĂĄ studie se zabĂ˝vĂĄ spokojenostĂ­ pacientĹŻ zdravotnĂ­ a oĹĄetřovatelskou péčí na ortopedickĂŠm oddělenĂ­. VĂ˝zkum byl realizovĂĄn formou dotaznĂ­kĹŻ firmy STEM-MARK. Při analĂ˝ze zĂ­skanĂ˝ch dat u 3092 dotaznĂ­kĹŻ, je zřejmĂŠ, Ĺže větĹĄina v jednotlivĂ˝ch dimenzĂ­ch spokojenĂĄ ve vĂ­ce neĹž 80 %. MĂŠně % nebylo spokojeno dimenzi „celkovĂŠ pohodlĂ­“, kde menĹĄĂ...

Purpose Worldwide more than two billion people lack appropriate access to surgical services due to mismatch between existing human resource and patient demands. Improving utilization of existing workforce capacity can reduce the existing gap between surgical demand and available workforce capacity. In this paper, the authors use discrete event simulation to explore the care process at an orthop...

The management of the polytraumatized orthopedic patient remains a challenging issue. In recent years many efforts have been made to develop rescue techniques and to promote guidelines for the management of these patients. Currently controversies persist between two orthopedic approaches: the Early Total Care and the Damage Control Orthopedics. An overview of the current literature on the ortho...

REVIEW OBJECTIVE The objective of this review is to identify the effectiveness of patient education for orthopedic surgery patients. More specifically, the objectives are to identify the effectiveness of patient education on:length of staysatisfactionpain levelcost of carefunctional abilitiesknowledgeanxietyquality of life in orthopedic settings. BACKGROUND Patient education is an essential p...