background: underlying diseases and aggressive procedures, such as different types of surgery and care, for patients with critical conditions in intensive care units (icu) may be associated with physiological disorders. objectives: this study intended to determine the effect of therapeutic touch on physiological variables of patients undergoing mechanical ventilation in icu. methods: this rando...

In intensive care physiological variables of the critically ill are measured and recorded in short time intervals. The proper extraction and interpretation of the information contained in this flood of information can hardly be done by experience alone. Intelligent alarm systems are needed to provide suitable bedside decision support. So far there is no commonly accepted standard for detecting ...

Marijuana is the illicit drug most commonly used worldwide. The mechanisms by which this drug affects the brain have been studied exhaustively during the last 40 years, and better understood in the last decade. For example, the discovery of receptors to which marijuana binds, has been a major achievement in neurosciences and in the study of drug addiction. Moreover, the description of the endog...

In order to investigate the effects of short road transport stress on total and free iodothyronines, body weight (BW), rectal temperature and heart rate (HR) changes, 126 healthy stallions were studied in basal conditions, before and after transport. A total of 60 Thoroughbred and 66 crossbred stallions aged 4 to 15 years with previous travelling experience were transported by road in a commerc...

Now a days, our modern society realise about the significance of yoga in their daily life. That’s why present investigation was taken as an initiative to find out effect asana on selected physiological variables among high school boys. The study conducted 60 boys Banipur Baniniketan school, divided into two groups equally, namely control and experimental group. Their age ranged from 12 14 years...

Background: Underlying diseases and aggressive procedures, such as different types of surgery and care, for patients with critical conditions in intensive care units (ICU) may be associated with physiological disorders. Objectives: This study intended to determine the effect of therapeutic touch on physiological variables of patients undergoing mechanical ventilation in ICU. Methods: This...